News Agencies – February 1, 2012 The news that Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son Hamed Mohammad Shafia had each been found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder drew mixed reaction from across Canada. Experts in so-called honour killings — murders carried out to preserve family honour in the…
February 3, 2012 Amid the often disturbing anti-Muslim sentiment generated by the Shafia murder trial and its guilty verdicts, dozens of imams (religious leaders) will gather at a mosque in Mississauga Ontario to issue a fatwa, spelling out that so-called honour killings and violence toward women have nothing to do with the real teachings…
News Agencies – February 2, 2011 A Quebecois Muslim man alleges he’s become a terror suspect simply because of a workplace quip — he says all he did was tell his sales staff to “blow away” the competition at a trade show. Now Saad Allami is seeking $100,000 from the Quebec provincial police force, one…
News Agencies – January 31, 2012 French author and scholar Gilles Kepel has released his new book, Quatre-vingt-treize, a followup to his 1987 book Banlieues de l’Islam.
News Agencies – February 2, 2012 The French National Observatory against Islamophobia (l’Observatoire national contre l’islamophobie) has reported that Anti-Muslim acts and threats reported in 2011 have increased 34% over the previous year. According to Abdallah Zekri, president of the organization that is attached to the French Council of the Muslim Faith, these figures are…
