June 24, 2011 Earlier this month, Jonathan Kay attended a Parliament Hill conference in Ottawa entitled “Terrorism in Canada: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Strategies,” put on by the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), featuring prominent terrorism experts from both sides of the border. In the Canadian context, David Harris, the former chief of strategic…
The Toronto Star – June 30, 2011 Toronto’s gay community will celebrate Pride on downtown streets on July 3, 2011. At the same time, Muslims attending a major Islamic conference at the nearby Metro Toronto Convention Centre will hear from two anti-homosexual speakers. Journey of Faith is the same annual event that drew criticism last…
The Toronto Star – June 26, 2011 Mubin Shaikh, a police insider who infiltrated a group plotting in 2006 to blow up Toronto’s downtown, along with Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a 37-year-old Somalia-born Canadian who has experienced the frontlines of Mogadishu’s relentless war and Kamran Bokhari, a Pakistan-born, U.S.-raised and -educated analyst with an American private…
27 June 2011 A Dutch lawyers’ association has announced its intention to encourage more ethnic minority students to become lawyers. The subject is a common topic of study among Dutch students with Turkish and Moroccan backgrounds but have tended to work as legal aids, while law firms remain ‘white bastions’. To address the situation, two…
28 June 2011 The Dutch parliament voted in favour of banning kosher and halal slaughter of animals, following debate which saw considerable resistance from Jewish and Muslim communities. The ban contains an exception such that groups able to prove that animals do not suffer comparatively more during ritual slaughter than standard methods will be permitted…
