(Toronto Sun) The poppy is to remember Canada’s war dead. Not Hamas terrorists. There are few things more vile than hijacking the poppy to honour the death of a murderous terror leader. But it has happened. It seems, there’s no shame or […]
(Toronto Sun) Wednesday’s joint declaration of Vancouver-based Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a terrorist entity by both Canada and the United States was a long time coming, says one prominent terror watchdog. Gerald Steinberg, president of the Jerusalem-based research institute NGO […]
(Toronto Sun) Two GTA men face hate crime charges after allegedly waving flags belonging to a terror group at last week’s Toronto anti-Israel protest. According to Toronto Police, two men were spotted waving flags belonging to Hezbollah, a Lebanese terror organization currently […]
(Toronto Sun) Imagine a controversial Christian preacher from the U.S. who tells his followers that Muslims are our enemy being allowed to tour this country. Would the Trudeau government allow such a preacher to conduct a lecture tour if he taught that […]
(Toronto Sun) While being tried as a regular first-degree murder trial — and five counts of attempted murder — this disturbing Chicken Land shooting case is also about the alleged role radical Islamic terrorism played. In fact, a jury Monday heard that […]
(Toronto Sun) All charges against one of the men arrested following a high-profile incident during a demonstration in the Toronto Eaton Centre have been dropped. Toronto Police responded on Dec. 17 at about 4:55 p.m. to the area of Yonge and Shuter […]
(Toronto Sun) Toronto Police have all eyes on any hate directed toward the Jewish community right now but did not expect that would include people from within their own ranks. The police service has been forced to investigate two of its own […]
(Toronto Sun) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Muslim parents who object to their children being taught about gender identity issues in schools are being fed “misinformation and disinformation” by “the American right-wing” and the “far right.” “I’ve heard this concern many, many […]
(Toronto Sun) Shareef Abdelhaleem, dubbed a “principal architect” of a terror plot to blow up several Greater Toronto Area landmarks in 2006, has been granted full parole as [he] is no longer considered an “unacceptable risk to society.” In a decision Wednesday […]
(Toronto Sun) After more than seven years of fighting his conviction as a would-be al-Qaeda terrorist who dreamed of derailing a Toronto-bound passenger train, Chiheb Esseghaier now wants to abandon his appeal. Ontario’s highest court, though, is wisely taking his latest wishes […]
(Toronto Sun) Last week, a Quebec school teacher was removed from her classroom for wearing the hijab. Quebec’s controversial secularist law, Bill 21, prohibits religious symbols in public places. The law has many human rights activists and federal parliamentarians on edge. MPs […]
(Toronto Sun) The family of a man currently held in a Kurdish prison in northern Syria is disputing the description of him as a terrorist. A spokesperson for John and Sally Letts took issue with the term terrorist being applied to Jack […]
(Toronto Sun) The parents of British-born terrorist Jihadi Jack are seeking the help of politicians in this country to get him sprung from a Syrian prison to live a life of freedom in Canada. Emails obtained exclusively by the Toronto Sun show […]
(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 […]
(Toronto Sun) Despite being cleared last year for two-day passes into Toronto, the pandemic has delayed those privileges for a mentally ill man who stabbed three soldiers at a North York recruitment office. Instead, Ayanle Hassan Ali, 32, was only able [to] […]
(Toronto Sun) On Saturday, July 4, Mississauga’s Celebration Square witnessed a protest by Palestinian Canadians against the planned annexation of the West Bank into Israel proper. The organizer of this event wrote: “As Canadians, we need to condemn this illegal annexation and […]
(Toronto Sun) When Bilal ibn Ribah, the very first muezzin, or Islamic prayer caller, recited the now familiar lines of the azaan, early Muslims rushed to the mosque to offer supplication to Allah. Their homes were near enough for them to hear […]
(Toronto Sun) Last week when I wrote about a single mosque in Toronto using four loudspeakers to declare “Allah is the Greatest” and that there is “No God, but Allah,” I thought it was the case of one mosque, a few zealots […]
(Toronto Sun) Almost two years ago, Toronto’s Danforth Ave. made headlines across the world when one Faisal Hussain killed two people and wounded 13 others before committing suicide. Well, Danforth Ave. is back in the news. This time it’s the blaring of […]
(Toronto Sun) The deputy minister of industry in an internal email described use of a taxpayer-funded research project to publish a 2019 Muslim voting guide as “weird,” in documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter. The guide criticized opposition MPs for activities that “foment […]
(Toronto Sun) The resurgent Bloc Quebecois is poised to perform well in the election under its articulate and pragmatic leader, Yves-Francois Blanchet. It has successfully pitched itself to younger voters by turning away from ageing entrenched separatists. Recent polls in Quebec put […]
(Toronto Sun) Now that the election campaign has kicked off and Justin Trudeau is once again Liberal leader, it’s time to weigh in on how the Muslim vote is likely to pan out. Trudeau has the unsavoury reputation in some corners of […]
(Toronto Sun) On Friday, the Green Party fired their candidate in the Quebec riding of Lévis-Lotbinière after he was labelled an “Islamophobe” because he dared to criticize a mosque leader. Luc Saint-Hilaire, who until recently was in Algeria giving professional training as […]
(Toronto Sun) Another patient found not criminally responsible for a violent crime is now eligible for extensive forays into the community, despite remaining a “significant threat” to the public. Just three years after stabbing three soldiers at a Toronto recruitment office with […]
(Toronto Sun) On Sunday night after a marathon session, Quebec legislators voted 73-35 to bring into law Premier François Legault’s Bill 21 that bans some public servants from wearing religious symbols. Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government, which also had the backing […]
(Toronto Sun) Last week’s Ontario Superior Court judgment exonerating two men for a dozen criminal charges related to the marketing of Islamic mortgages based on Shariah law went unreported in all Canadian newspapers and network TV other than the online pages of […]
(Toronto Sun) Two Muslim men — an activist turned Shariah mortgage seller and an Islamic cleric who sold his Islamic seal of approval on such mortgages — were acquitted on Friday of a dozen criminal charges by an Ontario Superior Court judge […]
(Toronto Sun) We tend to place individuals and ideologies in neat, homogeneous compartments, when shades of grey better convey the reality. This seems to have happened in the controversy surrounding the tiff between Faisal Khan Suri, president of the Alberta Muslim Public […]
(Toronto Sun) Two years ago our federal parliament passed M103, a motion condemning Islamophobia. Part of the non-binding text referred to the need to reduce or eliminate “systemic racism and religious discrimination,” with a specific reference to Islamophobia. Conservatives offered a more […]
(Toronto Sun) It has been 10 years since Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor Commission recommended that all public officials who embody the authority and the neutrality of the state and its institutions, such as judges, crown prosecutors, police officers, prison guards and the president and […]
(Toronto Sun) It is time again for us to politely ignore World Hijab Day. This day allotted to the hijab — a regressive, patriarchal and cumbersome garment — has been observed every February 1 since 2013. The farce has spread to many […]
(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 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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(Toronto Sun) The man who has presented himself as the point of contact for the family of Faisal Hussain is a professional activist who has reportedly committed himself to “framing a new narrative of Muslims in Canada” and creating a “national political […]
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