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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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Setting the Record Straight: A Follow-Up on Niqabs and Voting

Posted in Media, Muslim Women, News, tagged , , , on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Canadian government has (finally) decided to lay to rest its plans to introduce legislation that would force women who wear niqab (fabric that covers their faces) to show their faces when voting.
This comes as a relief, not so much because of the actual legislation, but because of the amazing amount of misinformation that has [...]

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Lookout Links: June 29

Posted in Muslim Women, News, Newspaper, tagged on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A Toronto private school is being sued by a Muslim student for defamation, as a result of the school’s response to a fight in which racial slurs were made against the student:
A private French school run by a former Liberal MP defamed a 15-year-old student during an assembly and did not treat alleged racial slurs [...]

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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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Lookout Links: June 22

Posted in News, tagged on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Adil Charkaoui, one of five men arrested on a security certificate in 2003, is on a speaking tour across Canada, and has spoken in several cities already.  For those of you in Vancouver and Victoria, see here for the dates that he’ll be in your city this week.  Check out this article too, about his [...]

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Of Christian Right-Wing Extremism and (Racist) Disavowal

Posted in News, Newspaper, Online/websites, Terrorism/War on Terror, tagged , , on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Written by a guest contributor and originally posted at Getting a life.
Scrolling down Antonia Zerbisias’ blog today, my eyes lighted upon the title, “American Taliban.” Something about an American Muslim extremist, I surmised—but, I was wrong. She was in fact blogging about the murder of a well-known doctor in Wichita, Kansas.
Nowhere does Zerbisias indicate what [...]

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Lookout Links: June 15

Posted in News, tagged on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We missed linking to it last week, but go read this article about Mustafa Ahmed, a young Toronto boy who does some pretty awesome spoken word.  More importantly, watch a video of him performing one of his pieces:

In other news about young Toronto Muslims, the Globe and Mail reports on a [...]

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Unexpected Photo of the Week

Posted in Muslim Women, News on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ll put up a real post soon, but wanted to highlight the photo from this article on Zaynab Khadr and her husband (we referred to it in the Monday links), because I just never thought I’d see this combination of hijab, niqab, long-haired hippie-looking man, and dandelions all in one picture in a major newspaper.
Women [...]

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Lookout Links: May 25

Posted in Media, News, tagged on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A youth convicted of being part of a terrorism plot has been sentenced, and then released:
The first person convicted under Canada’s terrorism laws was sentenced Friday to 2½ years in prison for his involvement in the group dubbed the Toronto 18, which authorities accuse of plotting to blow up targets in the city’s downtown.
The judge [...]

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Non-Issue or New Islamist Threat? Headscarves and the FFQ

Posted in Islamophobia, Media, Muslim Women, News, Newspaper, Politics, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
The Fédération des femmes du Québec (Federation of Quebec Women; abbreviated as FFQ) recently had a special assembly in order to clarify its position on whether headscarves should be permitted for people working in the public service.  (The question of “reasonable accommodation” for minority groups has been the subject of [...]

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