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Playing the Blame Game: On Blaming the Palestinian People

Posted in International, News, Uncategorized, tagged , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The opening paragraph of “Palestinian sheds light on who’s right in Middle East” by Naomi Lakritz of The Calgary Herald is full of promises; promises daring to oppose those who speak against the brutal treatment of Palestinians at the hands of Israel. Lakritz believes that by presenting this one Palestinian, Khalid Abu Toameh, an Israeli [...]

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Skateboarding in Afghanistan

Posted in International, Newspaper, tagged , on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Before the semester ended, a fellow classmate at York University had informed our African Studies class of a new project concerning children and technology in Africa. Similar to the Bike program where a store donates a bicycle for each child in (particular country), laptops were being given to very young children. After an hour of [...]

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Dangerous Liaisons: Imperialism’s Relationship with Human Rights

Posted in International, News, Politics, tagged , , on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“Pride parade ‘microcosm of anti-Semitism happening globally’” headlined the Jewish Tribune last month, outlining lawyer Martin Gladstone’s and Jewish advocacy organization B’nai Brith’s concern with the “anti-Israel political advocacy going on” at the parade. The objection Gladstone and B’nai Brith raised to the inclusion of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) in Toronto’s upcoming parade embodies [...]

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Building Tension or Encouraging Democracy? Lebanese-Canadians and the Recent Elections

Posted in International, Politics, tagged , , on June 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

For the past few months, The Future Movement– a political group operating from an Islamic School in Calgary– was campaigning in order to convince Lebanese Canadians to return to their homeland in order to cast votes in the June 7 election, according to this article.
Though The Future Movement coordinator Fauzi Salem says that the group [...]

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Canada’s Saviour Complex is Getting Old: Afghani Women and Canada

Posted in International, Muslim Women, News, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2009 | 12 Comments »

It seems everywhere I turn I hear about Afghanistan in Canadian media. That’s why we’ve had to cover it so often on Muslim Lookout (here and here for instance). The Ottawa Citizen recently published an article about the recent protest by Afghani women against the proposition of a terribly oppressive law. Meanwhile, rabble.ca published an [...]

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Reflections on “Pakistan’s Taliban Generation”

Posted in Documentay, International, Terrorism/War on Terror, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Even before I watched this recent documentary, aired on CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye on March 30th, by Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy I knew it was going to be hard to watch. And I was right.
The film, entitled Pakistan’s Taliban Generation, follows Obaid-Chinoy as she tries to find how strong and influential the Taliban really [...]

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Are Afghan women really Canada’s top priority?

Posted in International, Muslim Women, News, Newspaper, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror, tagged , , , , on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This piece was also posted at Muslimah Media Watch.
A few weeks ago, the news of a new law for Shi’a Muslims in Afghanistan was met with outrage in governments and media around the world.  This law would, among other things, force women to have sex with their husbands and obligate them to seek permission for [...]

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The Muslims of “India Reborn”

Posted in Documentay, International, Television, tagged , , , on April 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

CBC TV recently played a four part documentary on India called India Reborn. The series was well done and diverse demonstrating India to be a paradox of a country. From filthy, filthy rich people to the dirt poor, India is a country of all colours, figuratively and literally. India also has the second largest Muslim [...]

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“Forced to Marry”: A Look at the Documentary

Posted in Documentay, International, Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , , on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The following was originally published on Muslimah Media Watch. As this documentary was just recently aired on Canadian television it has been edited for Muslim Lookout.
CBC Newsworld documentary program The Passionate Eye aired the British documentary Forced to Marry on March 23rd. I found the film which aired originally on BBC Two on December [...]

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