The mayor of Saint-Apollinaire says people voted against the cemetery specifically because it was muslim.  He didn't give any examples, but it he's correct, that's what is wrong with leaving the issue entirely up to neighbours.  

It would be not so different from neighbours voting to have an all-white neighbourhood, and I hope reasonable Canadians would say that's wrong - and not just "force-feeding others with allegedly higher ideals" as you describe it.