(CBC) The head of an Alberta organization for refugees is under fire after publicly suggesting 15 months ago that Muslim women should not fully cover their faces in public. Frank Bauer, executive director of the Red Deer-based Central Alberta Refugee Effort (CARE) […]
(CBC) Quebec’s Education Ministry is trying to find out how many people its plan to ban teachers from wearing religious symbols will affect. The ministry has asked school boards whether they have a record of how many staff wear a religious symbol […]
(Canadian Press) A youth facing terrorism charges in Kingston, Ont., will be back in court next week, after his lawyer has had more time to study his case. The RCMP charged the youth last week, saying he tried to persuade someone to […]
(Global News) Beefed-up borders and stricter refugee screening won’t do much to reduce the threat of Islamist terrorism in Canada, which is largely homegrown, according to one of Canada’s top experts on terrorism and national security. Stephanie Carvin, assistant professor of international […]
(CBC) The city of Kingston, Ont., is still reeling after a young person was charged with terrorism-related offences following thousands of hours of investigation by multiple police agencies and raids on two homes. Here is what we know (and much of what […]
(Toronto Star) A woman convicted of using a golf club and knife to attack Canadian Tire employees in support of terror group Daesh has declared she wants to “withdraw” her agreement with the facts presented to the jury in a recent and […]
(NY Times) A youth was charged on Friday with “facilitating a terrorist activity” in eastern Ontario and trying to persuade a friend, who is a Syrian refugee, to plant a bomb in a public place. The refugee was released from custody although […]
(CBC) Community leaders are working to calm fears and find ways to prevent an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant backlash in the wake of two arrests related to an alleged terrorist plot in Kingston, Ont. — yet the probe already has touched off a political […]
(CBC) The RCMP’s national security team has arrested and charged an Ontario youth with a terrorism-related offence, the police force said Friday following an investigation in Kingston, Ont. Police have laid two charges against the young person, who is accused of knowingly facilitating a […]
(CBC) The RCMP have arrested two people following raids on two homes in Kingston, Ont., in what officials are calling a national security investigation involving multiple police forces. CBC News has learned the arrests included a minor and involved both Kingston police and […]
(Global News) A video released Wednesday by the ISIS affiliate in Somalia showed a man it said was a doctor from Canada urging supporters to “get on the path of jihad.” The 15-minute propaganda video introduced him as Dr. Youssef Al Majeerteyn […]
(AFP) A German appeals court Wednesday lengthened the jail term for a Syrian refugee found guilty of war crimes and taking part in the kidnapping of a Canadian UN peacekeeper. The defendant, named only as Suliman al-S., 28, was sentenced to four […]
(Toronto Star) A newly released psychiatric assessment of a woman convicted of attacking Canadian Tire employees and customers with a knife and golf club “for ISIS,” suggests she was suffering from “actively psychotic” symptoms and “paranoid and persecutory delusions” at the time […]
(Global News) Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Friday that Canada will “monitor” the case of an ISIS fighter caught in Syria last weekend amid speculation he may be a Canadian who narrated execution videos. Asked what the government was doing about […]
(Toronto Sun) Will Canadian Muslim women soon have their own #MeToo movement? A headline for a CBC Fifth Estate online story reads: “A man cannot do that to a woman: Why polygamy in Canadian Muslim community could be another #MeToo moment.” The […]
(Toronto Star) A jury has found Rehab Dughmosh guilty on four terrorism-related charges, concluding a brief and bizarre trial in which she refused to participate except to admit she tried to join Daesh in Syria and later used a golf club and […]
(Global News) For more than four years, authorities have been trying to identify an ISIS member with a distinctly Canadian accent who was narrating the terrorist group’s English-language propaganda. He voiced videos showing mass executions and may have participated in them. His […]
(Toronto Star) A year after her plan to leave her husband and two children to join a terrorist group in Syria was thwarted, Rehab Dughmosh entered a Scarborough Canadian Tire in 2017 and shouted “This is for ISIS” as she attacked employees […]
(Global News) The latest Canadian captured in Syria was the commander of more than a dozen fighters who clashed with U.S.-backed forces in the last remaining ISIS enclave, according to a local official. The former Toronto resident, Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed, was armed […]
(CBC) Western University’s Student Recreation Centre is offering women a segregated fitness and recreation space to ensure they feel “safe and included” accessing the gym on campus. The pilot project, which launches Tuesday, was initiated after some women shared concerns with the […]
(Global News) Another alleged Canadian ISIS member has been captured in northern Syria, according to local Kurdish forces, who posted a video of the man. In the 40-second video clip, the man identified himself as Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed and said he was […]
(CBC) Zaib’s life began to unravel with an unexpected phone call from her husband in early 2018. He told her he had married a second wife, an announcement that took the Toronto woman by surprise. “I went into shock mode. I was […]
(Global News) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced more questions about immigration policy at the University of Regina on Thursday, in the second town hall he hosted in two nights. This time, the question covered Canada’s borders — and suggested that Christianity and […]
(CTV) A Muslim cleric who said wishing someone merry Christmas is a sin worse than murder claims his comments were taken out of context. During a sermon on December 23, Sheikh Younus Kathrada, a preacher in Victoria, B.C., said that Muslims must […]
(National Post) One of the longest-running national security cases in Canada has resulted in a massive civil lawsuit, as an Egyptian-born Toronto man is suing the federal government for repeatedly trying to deport him over alleged ties to the 1998 terrorist bombings […]
(PRI) When Chérif Chekatt opened fire last month in the French city of Strasbourg at one of the most famous Christmas markets in Europe, five people were killed and about a dozen were injured. The 29-year-old Strasbourg native with Moroccan roots was […]
(Canadian Press) A British Columbia man and woman who were cleared of terror charges due to RCMP entrapment are allowed to live freely for the first time in years after prosecutors dropped a bid to restrict their movements, their lawyer says. The federal […]
(Toronto Sun) As people around the globe celebrate the New Year, for me 2019 is beginning just the way 2018 did — with a threat against me. Leading up to 2018, the threats against me were quite blatant, leading last year to […]
(Algemeiner) As Christians around the world celebrate Christmas, footage has emerged of an Islamist cleric in Canada telling an assembly of Muslim young people in British Columbia that “major sins” like “murder” and “adultery” were “nothing compared to the sin of congratulating […]
(Anadolu) A group of Muslim academicians teaching at universities in the U.S. and Canada visited Turkey and attended a conference on Tuesday. Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran also attended the conference, which was jointly organized by Turkey’s Center for Strategic […]
(Canadian Press) A young Canadian convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in New York City was sentenced by an American court on Wednesday to 40 years in prison, his Canadian lawyer said. The sentence handed down to Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 20, came despite […]
(CBC) Muslim women and children fleeing abuse could soon have access to a specialized shelter catering to their cultural and religious needs. While there are many organizations in Calgary offering services for Muslim women escaping domestic violence, there are no specialized shelters. […]
(Global News) Canada’s financial intelligence agency warned banks on Thursday to watch for signs that foreign terrorist fighters may be trying to return home from places like Syria and Iraq. The reactivation of a dormant bank account linked to an “extremist traveller” […]
(CBC) A Quebec judge has failed in her bid to halt disciplinary proceedings against her after she refused to hear the case of a woman wearing a hijab. In February 2015, Quebec court Judge Eliana Marengo refused to hear a routine traffic […]
(CBC) At the Québec Solidaire national council this weekend in Montreal, two camps emerged on the issue of religious symbols: one of secularism and one of inclusion. While the party already supports the banning of religious symbols worn by police officers, judges, […]
(CBC) A man accused of misappropriating millions of dollars after his Shariah mortgage lending company went into receivership testified in his own defence in a Toronto courtroom, saying everything he’s done has always been “above board.” Omar Kalair, the former president and […]
(CBC) The head of a national Muslim group based in Ottawa says he’s not surprised to learn the number of hate crimes reported to police in Ontario and Quebec jumped dramatically last year. According to Statistics Canada, there was a 47 per […]
(CBC) Fatima Ahmad has been dreaming about becoming a teacher since she was a little girl. At age six, she wrote down the aspiration in her diary, along with two other options: doctor and artist. Ultimately, she chose teaching. “I love kids, […]
(CBC) Most Quebecers are in favour of banning public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, according to a CROP poll released ahead of the first legislative session under a Coalition Avenir Québec government. But a separate survey by Vox Pop Labs, conducted following […]
(Toronto Sun) Earlier this week, a federal judge in the United States dismissed charges against two doctors and six others involved in the genital mutilation of nine girls at a suburban Detroit clinic. While many are disappointed the case had to be […]
(Middle East Eye) More than 100 community groups across Canada have called on Justin Trudeau’s government to designate January 29 a National Day of Action against Hate and Intolerance, in memory of the victims of a deadly attack on a Canadian mosque […]
(Toronto Sun) Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy against Islam by a group of Muslim women, was acquitted by the Supreme court of Pakistan a couple of weeks ago. However, she is still hiding in an undisclosed place and […]
(CBC) More young Muslims in Calgary are picking up brushes, pens, cameras and microphones, and creating their own arts scene. A new generation is expressing themselves while honouring their religion in many different ways, including everything from traditional Islamic patterns and geometric […]
(CBC) In the wake of a deadly attack on a U.S. synagogue, people of faith from across the Greater Toronto Area gathered at Jewish places of worship on Saturday in an act of defiant solidarity. More than 200 attendees from various religious […]
(Gatestone) Canadian taxpayers have unwittingly been funding terrorism for more than two decades, often through federally registered charities, many of which have since been banned in other countries and subsequently by Ottawa as well. The International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and […]
(Canadian Press) Members of Quebec’s most prominent women’s group are divided over whether to acknowledge prostitution as a freely chosen career and whether to support all Muslim female public servants who choose to wear a hijab at work. About 150 representatives from Quebec’s […]
(Bradford Today) The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association of Bradford held an Islamic information session at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library on Oct. 25. “It’s Islamic Heritage month,” explained Mona Shah. “This is really to recognize the contributions Muslims have made in […]
(CBC) The trial of two men accused of defrauding homeowners who had taken out “Shariah-compliant” mortgages heard Thursday from one of the mortgage holders, who admitted under defence cross-examination that he and his wife eventually got credited for their payments. Omar Kalair […]
(CBC) Quebec’s new government is planning to block Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body, and the niqab, which also covers the face. Coalition Avenir Québec […]
(Regina Leader-Post) Anne Sureshkumar has been called a racist for calling out shame and honour-based violence, but she says it’s not about race, religion or culture — it’s about a zero-tolerance stance on violence. “In any society or any culture, there is […]
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