News Agencies – February 5, 2011 A dozen Muslim families who recently arrived in Canada have told Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division that they want their children excused from compulsory elementary school music and co-ed physical education programs for religious and cultural reasons. “This is one of our realities in Manitoba now, as a result…
News Agencies – December 8, 2010 Montreal-based Bombardier Inc. will pay $319,000 CAD in damages to a Canadian of Pakistani origin after he was denied pilot training because he had been identified as a “threat to aviation or national security” by U.S. authorities. The Quebec Human Rights Commission announced details of the recent ruling by…
Baroness Warsi of the Conservative Party was announced Britain’s most powerful Muslim Woman. She is the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action and now headed the first Muslim Women Power List. This list is an initiative by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, The Times and Muslim life style magazine Emel, which seeks…
The Manchester-based Equality and Human Rights Commission today started the first Muslim Women Power List, which aims to celebrate Muslim women who have already reached the top of their chosen field or are on the way there. The commission is now accepting nominations for the list, which will be revealed at The Lowry Hotel in…
The Human Rights Commission in the province of British Colombia has rejected a human rights complaint against Maclean’s magazine that claimed an article about Islam violated anti-hate laws. The commission found that an October 2006 article by Mark Steyn, The Future Belongs to Islam, did not violate such nor raise hatred against Muslims. It is…
