Interfaith dialogue
Sunday, 12.23.2007, 01:07am
Earlier this year, I attended the Ottawa convention of the Islamic Society of North America. One session was on interfaith dialogue, with presentations by Abdul Rashid, an Islamic scholar, and Sister Jean Goulet, a Catholic nun. Rashid emphasized the Qur'anic basis for the practice of dialogue: "O mankind! We created you from a single pair of a male and female, and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other."
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Honor killing in Canada needs denouncing
Saturday, 12.22.2007, 07:46pm
On December 10, a man in Toronto's suburb of Mississauga called 911 to report that he had just killed his daughter. Muhammad Purvez, the father, has been arrested, along with his son Waqas, who has been charged with obstructing police.
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Sorry performance by Quebec unions
Saturday, 12.15.2007, 08:03pm
It was not the unions' finest hour. Quebec union federations made their presentations to the Bouchard-Taylor hearings on "reasonable accommodation." The presentations of the two largest union organizations reflected a lack of tolerance for diversity. Claudette Carbonneau, president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), wants to forbid teachers and judges from wearing the hijab and calls for a "charter of secularism." She sees such a charter as necessary to avoid . . . "anarchy"!
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Canadian census immigration statistics released
Saturday, 12.15.2007, 08:02pm
Canadians use a bit of jargon that would typically be part of a linguist's vocabulary. There are anglophones, francophones, and allophones. Then, there are saxophones — an ill wind that no one blows good. Anglophones and francophones are speakers of English and French, and allophones speak another language.
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Darkness over Islam
Saturday, 12.15.2007, 08:00pm
As a take-off on the title of the popular CBC program "Little Mosque on the Prairie," the Toronto Globe and Mail entitled its article "Little mosque on the tundra," all about Muslims in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories. Because of the very limited amount of sunlight during the winter months, prayer schedules are taken from those of their "southern" brethren in Edmonton, with sunrise prayers occurring in darkness.
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No-fly list stops Muslim
Saturday, 12.15.2007, 07:58pm
Back in May, 2004, Shahid Mahmood was prevented from boarding an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Victoria because a name similar to his was on a no-fly list. This was before Canada's official list was put in place this year. Just last month, he filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, as he believes that had he not been a Muslim he would not have been treated in this manner.
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