(Toronto Sun) When the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) initially cancelled an event with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, the reason given was that such an event could foster Islamophobia.
Murad was invited to speak at a book club founded by Tanya Lee, where teen girls from various secondary schools hear from female authors.
But TDSB superintendent Helen Fisher expressed concern over Murad’s book The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, telling [the] book club organizer that students should not participate in an event with the author scheduled for February.
At the age of 14, Nadia Murad was kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis and taken into sex slavery.
