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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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The Clarion Fund’s Film Jihad Against “Islamism”

Posted in Documentay, Islamophobia, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

From the same team that gave America Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East and the award-winning Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West comes a new blockbuster “documentary”: The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America. Undeterred by the thorough debunking Obsession received following its mass distribution in American newspapers last year [...]

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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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Are some more Canadian than others?

Posted in Media, News, Newspaper, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror, tagged , , on May 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Globe and Mail published an interesting piece recently about Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian in Sudan who is being blocked by the Canadian government from returning to Canada.  The bulk of the article, which goes through some of the events of Abdelrazik’s case (being put on a no-fly list while in Sudan, later having the [...]

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Facing Justice: An Update

Posted in Media, Muslim Women, News, Newspaper, Politics, tagged , , on May 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I wrote a little while ago about the media coverage of the Toronto sexual assault case in which the female complainant was ordered by the presiding judge, Justice Norris Weisman, to remove her niqab while testifying.  At the time that I posted my earlier article, hearings were underway in Ontario’s Superior Court to appeal the [...]

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One Muslim Woman’s Perspective on Violence

Posted in Muslim Women, Newspaper, Politics, tagged , on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Shahina Siddiqui’s article “True Muslim society protects women,” published this past weekend in the Winnipeg Free Press, presents one woman’s response to some of the sexism and misogyny within Muslim communities that has been in the media recently.  Siddiqui condemns the murder of an Afghan women’s rights activist, the flogging of a young women in [...]

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Canada’s Military and Afghan Women: A Follow-Up

Posted in Muslim Women, News, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror, tagged , , on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This piece is also posted at Muslimah Media Watch.
I know I just talked about this last week, but all these questions about Canada’s involvement with the rights of Afghan women have remained a major news story, so I thought it was worth doing a follow-up.  There are still quite a few articles out there about [...]

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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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Free (racist) speech: A look at recent letters to the editor

Posted in Islamophobia, Newspaper, Politics on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As a general rule, I avoid reading letters to the editor when looking at a newspaper.  This rule is slightly less absolute than my complete refusal to read comments on online articles, but the reasons are the same, namely that letters pages and comments sections have become places to vent and spew all sorts of [...]

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