Muslim groups support rape victims
Recently, a Muslim student was sexually assaulted on an Ottawa campus. At first, the media described the assault as rape, a description which was later...Canadian Islamic Congress stubs its toe
With Maclean's, the simplest description would be that it is more or less the Canadian Time, though, while over the decades Time has become somewhat less right wing,...Israel’s Syrian air strike was aimed at Iran
Until late October, the accepted explanation for the Sept. 6 Israeli air strike in Syria, constructed in a series of press leaks from U.S. officials, was that it was......
Proud history of Islamic medicine
Many people are unaware of the tremendous contribution to medical knowledge made in Islamic culture between the 9th and 13th centuries. It was Professor Ingrid...Canada resists demand for passenger info
The Canadian government is now lending its voice to the objections raised by airlines to U.S. demands for information about passengers flying over the U.S. to......
Situation of child soldiers pursued
The issue of what happens to child soldiers in Afghanistan is being raised both in Canada and the United States. In Canada, the deputy leader of the Liberal Party,...Arab boy chooses ballet for career
Ayman Saffah is a 17-year-old Israeli Arab from the town of Kafr Yassif, in Galilee, but he has chosen to live a life and develop a career beyond the cultural norms of......
UAE recruiting in Quebec
Bernard Grenier, president of Personnel Outaouais, has recently returned from Dubai, and his firm is recruiting personnel to work in the United Arab Emirates. The...No hijab in Manitoba judo
Here we go again! Another girl ruled out of a sports competition for wearing a hjijab, this time in Manitoba. Eleven-year-old Hajar Outbin was barred from a......
Woman suspended for skirt length
Halima Muse, a Muslim woman working as a screener at Toronto International Airport, was suspended from her job because she wore a skirt longer than the regulation skirt...Tight border security disaster
On November 11, the emergency call came in to Lacolle, Quebec. The local volunteer fire department was desperately needed to assist in putting out a fire across......
Ashcroft’s lawyer: Arar belongs to al-Qaeda
During a U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on November 9, Maher Arar's lawyer David Cole, from the Center for Constitutional Rights, sought to re-start a suit to recover...Afghan prisoner abuse again raised
After a row in Parliament, Canada reached a new agreement in May with Afghanistan to permit Canada to monitor captured fighters turned over to Afghan authorities. ......
Secret negotiations between Canada and Israel
Israeli Minister of Public Security, Ari Dichter and Canadian Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, have been developing a cooperative approach to terrorism and related...Canadian heads investigation into Hariri killing
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Canadian Daniel Bellemare, former chief of Canada's Federal Prosecution Service, to head the investigation into the......
Khadr trial begins under a cloud
Omar Khadr's trial at Guantanamo is on again. He is accused of being an illegal enemy combatant, having been involved in a firefight in Afghanistan while serving...Canadian Muslim is new ambassador
Arif Lalani is Canada's new ambassador to Afghanistan. He is a Muslim who came to Canada as a child when his family was driven from Uganda by Idi Amin. ......
Jamal out on bail
After 17 months in jail, Abdul Qayyam Jamal was released on $100,000 bail on November 5. He is the oldest of the group arrested in the Toronto area on charges...Jahanagir defends religious freedom
Speaking recently at the University of Ottawa, Asma Jahanagir, U.N. Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief, expressed cynicism about how religions treat......
IAEA report on Iran gets mixed reception
VIENNA (AFP) — Iran has made some progress in revealing the extent of its nuclear program but is still defying U.N. demands that it suspend uranium enrichment, the U.N....Cheney tried to stifle dissent in Iran intelligence report
WASHINGTON (IPS) — A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove......
Israel escalates campaign against IAEA , ElBaradei
Israel escalated its campaign Thursday against the winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), by...Canadian Conservatives bow to Islamophobia
There are problems with Canada's electoral laws. As currently written, in order to vote a person has to have a street address. The authors of the law did not......