Month: December 2017
‘This is a Canadian hero’: Group launches campaign to help buy new home for Mosque shooting victim
People are coming together to support one of the heroic survivors of the Quebec City mosque shooting. Source: ‘This is a Canadian hero’: Group launches campaign to help buy new […]
Islamophobia Report Being Written
(OTTAWA, ON) – After hearing from a diverse range of Canadians, including many Muslim organizations, the Federal Government’s standing committee on Canadian Heritage has completed its examina… Source: Islamophobia Report […]
WARNING: Graphic Descriptions – The cynical roots of Rempel’s FGM crusade
Source: The cynical roots of Rempel’s female genital mutilation crusade – iPolitics
Why do Muslims Belong in the Holy Land?
Source: Why do Muslims Belong in the Holy Land? | Opinion | UR
Support from New Canadians Centre in Peterborough is helping this Syrian family thrive
Source: Support from New Canadians Centre in Peterborough is helping this Syrian family thrive
Windsor’s Muslim community collect 300 coats for those in need
The Muslim community of Windsor is helping to keep people warm this winter. Source: Windsor’s Muslim community collect 300 coats for those in need
Wish comes true as Syrian refugee teen meets Trudeau
A 15-year-old Syrian refugee who came with her family to Canada in 2016 thanked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in person this week. Source: Wish comes true as Syrian refugee teen […]
UBC students participate in solidarity for Palestine protest
Protesters began outside Vancouver’s American embassy and marched towards the Vancouver Art Gallery. Source: UBC students participate in solidarity for Palestine protest
Reflections of a Black African Muslim Woman Living in Quebec on the Exploitation of African Migrants in Libya
Muslim Link interviews Somali Canadian Oumalker Idil Kalif about African Canadian reactions to the abuse and exploitation of African migrants in Libya. Source: Reflections of a Black African Muslim Woman […]
Toronto kitchen staffed by Syrian refugee women at risk of closing
The Newcomer Kitchen is where they come for a break to cure their homesickness and make a little money to support their families. Source: Toronto kitchen staffed by Syrian refugee […]
Why Quebec’s Islamophobia is unique – iPolitics
Often, when we talk about Islamophobia in Québec, we do so in terms of the rise of anti-Islam sentiments across the Western world following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, […]
Toronto school board trustee Ausma Malik is running for city council in 2018
One of the first hijab-wearing Muslim women to be elected to public office in Canada will sign her name to run in a downtown ward. Source: Toronto school board trustee […]
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante breaks silence on false news report
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante spoke out on Sunday for the first time about a false news report that accused a local mosque of requiring female workers to leave a construction […]
Israel finds no wrongdoing in paraplegic Palestinian’s death
Source: Israel finds no wrongdoing in paraplegic Palestinian’s death | Metro News
At the Quebec mosque shooting, this man risked his life to save others. Who will save him now?
Six men died in January’s attack on a Quebec City mosque, but Aymen Derbali barely survived. He spent two months in a coma and will never walk again. Now, as […]
Montreal mosque story shows how dangerous myths can be in era of fake news, far right
A media report stated a Montreal mosque signed a contract with a construction company stipulating no women could be on the site Fridays, the Muslim holy day. It was inaccurate […]
Israeli troops kill four Palestinians, wound dozens in latest protests over Jerusalem
Palestinians have been clashing with Israeli troops across the West Bank and along the Gaza border since President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week Source: Israeli troops […]
TVA apologizes for mosque story, says it will investigate ‘journalistic process’
Less than 24 hours after defending a report on a mosque banning women from a construction site, TVA news network has issued an apology. Source: TVA apologizes for mosque story, […]
Turns Out the Guy Charged in Racist Bat-Swinging Video Is an Affluent Lawyer
Mark Phillips, great-grandson of Toronto Mayor Nathan Phillips, was caught on video screaming “ISIS” and “terrorists” in St. Thomas, Ontario. Source: Turns Out the Guy Charged in Racist Bat-Swinging Video […]
Should Pamela Geller be allowed to speak in Toronto?
The American blogger, called “the world’s top Islamophobe,” abuses free speech but free speech is never absolute. Source: Opinion | Should Pamela Geller be allowed to speak in Toronto?
No evidence any Montreal mosque asked women be barred from work site, construction board finds
An investigation by Quebec’s construction board has confirmed that no Montreal mosque sought to exclude women from a nearby work site during Friday prayers. Source: No evidence any Montreal mosque […]
How Canadian media obscures the occupation of Palestine
This is the fundamental problem with Trump’s Jerusalem declaration: not that it risks igniting Muslim passions, but that it brazenly torches basic norms of international justice. Source: Opinion | How […]
Montreal mosque members dispute claim they wanted women barred from construction site on Fridays
With doubts being cast on allegations that a Montreal mosque asked that female workers not be visible at the nearby construction site on Fridays, those who attend the mosque say […]
Canadians have donated $12.5M to Myanmar refugee crisis, government intends to match it
Canada’s aid will go towards addressing the needs of women and girls, including survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Source: Canadians have donated $12.5M to Myanmar refugee crisis, government intends […]
At least 6,700 Rohingya killed in Burma between August and September, aid group says
Doctors Without Borders found the dead included at least 730 children younger than 5. “The peak in deaths coincides with the launch of the latest ‘clearance operations’ by (Burma) security […]