I’m Muslim. Criticism of political Islam can’t be conflated with Islamophobia
We must find a way to denounce the hatred that led to the Quebec City attack without lending legitimacy to fundamentalist voices in the Muslim community, writes Salma Siddiqui.
Demonstrators brave cold to show support for mosque
Bitter cold weather did not deter a large interfaith group of Christians and Jews from gathering outdoors and forming a symbolic ring of peace around a downtown Toronto mosque.
Jews stand with Muslim neighbours at Montreal mosque
“We wish we could have come in a time of joy instead of grief,” Rabbi Mordechai Zeitz told members of a mosque in the Montreal West Island suburb of Dollard des Ormeaux. It was the first time Rabbi Zeitz, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Tikvah, had been inside the Canadian Islamic Centre al-Jamieh, not far […]
Hundreds of Jews form ‘rings of peace’ at Toronto mosques
About 300 members of the Jewish community held hands and circled Toronto’s Imdadul Islamic Centre during Friday prayers in a show of support and solidarity.
Jewish groups offer mixed reactions to report on radical Islam
Jewish reactions to media reports last week about a study claiming many Canadian mosques and Islamic schools are espousing – or at least not condemning – extremism were mixed. The report – titled Lovers of the Death? Islamist Extremism in Mosques and Schools and co-authored by Thomas Quiggin, a former intelligence analyst with the Privy Council […]
The Rushdie affair and the outsourcing of murder
The return of the Rushdie edict presents the West with an opportunity to stand up for its own democratic principles and against a regime that has met every open hand extended to it with a clenched fist
MP denies allegations he supports anti-Israel views
“I do not believe a boycott is a constructive approach. I did not enter politics to promote boycott but to encourage engagement and dialogue between parties for the purpose of reaching long-lasting peace,” says Omar Alghabra
The folly of Ottawa’s ‘Hijab Day’
Jews do not have a “Wear a Kippah Day” to support Jewish men. Sikhs never demanded a “Turban Day” to support Sikh males. So why have a “Hijab Day”?
Une entrevue avec l’écrivain Yasmina Khadra
Une entrevue avec le grand écrivain algérien Yasmina Khadra, auteur d’un roman sur les dernier jours de Kadhafi ‘Nous ne sommes pas dans une guerre de civilisations, mais dans une guerre des mentalités’
Une entrevue avec Alain Finkielkraut
Le nouveau livre d’Alain Finkielkraut est une profonde réflexion sur la France et son destin nébuleux
