This National Post column features an interview with author, activist and columnist Sheema Khan. Khan describes her family’s immigration history from India to Montreal, and how, as a graduate student in chemical physics at Harvard University, she decided to become more religiously observant and chose to wear a hijab. Khan’s collection of personal essays, Of…
Salim Mansur, a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario and a journalist at the Toronto Sun and elsewhere, has published “Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim” (Mosaic Press, 2009). The National Post reviewer claims that it is a “far from perfect book” but reveals a most interesting man, a Canadian…
In October 2008 a Canadian Muslim named Beverley Giesbrecht was kidnapped in a remote region in northwestern Pakistan. Since then, her whereabouts and wellbeing are unclear. Giesbrecht has been held captive by a Muslim group since Nov. 11. She is somewhere in northern Pakistan or in Afghanistan. A former magazine publisher and advertising saleswoman, Giesbrecht…
Caldwell frames the issue of Muslim immigration to Europe as a question of whether you can have the same Europe with different people. The author, a columnist for the Financial Times and a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, answers this question unequivocally in the negative. He offers a brief demographic analysis of the potential…
In this feature examining Toronto neighbourhoods, Rob Roberts explores Rexdale´s Somali Muslim community, stopping in the Hamdi Restaurant and Habib Islamic Books.
