As hostilities in Gaza cooled off last month, tensions on campuses across Canada have heated up with “Israel Apartheid Week.” At Toronto’s Ryerson University, left-leaning teachers and students hosted a conference called “Gaza: War? Occupation? Apartheid?” the lead-up to Israel Apartheid Week. More tensions have arisen at Toronto’s York University. At York, two police forces…
According to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post daily newspaper, the Canadian government has been using “counter-radicalization techniques” to steer Canadian Muslims from “extremism.” The measures described in the report range from meeting with community and religious leaders and urging them to tackle radicalization to the more controversial tactic of intervention by…
Vandals daubed swastikas and anti-Islam slogans on graves of French Muslim War veterans in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, France. About 500 of the 576 Muslim graves were defaced on the eve of Islam’s Eid al-Adha feast. President Nicolas Sarkozy called the incident “abject and revolting.” The vandalism marks the third time in the past two years that Muslim…
At the end of his Canadian tour in Vancouver, the hereditary leader of the world’s 15 million Shi’a Ismaili Muslims, Aga Khan, described Canada as a model for diversity. Khan has often visited the country and has maintained a close relationship during his 50-year reign. Khan added that the absence of pluralism has led to…
A French appeals court in Douai has overturned a lower tribunal of Lille from April 1st 2008 that had annulled the marriage of two Muslims because the bride misrepresented her virginity. The marriage was annulled when the court held that the woman had lied over what was considered “an essential quality,” and therein the marriage…
