Ontario attacker sentenced for pulling off woman’s niqab

Toronto Star – Nov 25, 2011 Inas Kadri was shopping at a Mississauga mall with her two small children when a woman she had never seen before came “out of nowhere” and assaulted her, pulling off her niqab. Kadri is a schoolteacher with a computer engineering degree from University of Ottawa. Her attacker, Rosemarie Creswell,…

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More evidence heard in “honour killing” case in Ontario

News Agencies – November 23, 2011   More than a year before she and her two sisters drowned in a mysterious incident that is now the focus of a murder trial, a teenage student told her Montreal high school vice-principal that she had attempted suicide because her situation at home was intolerable, the jury was…

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Canadian Restaurateur in fight with American Popeyes chain over halal meat

The Toronto Star – November 2, 2011   A group of Muslim restaurant franchisees is fighting fast-food chain Popeyes Louisiana Chicken in court over the right to sell hand-slaughtered Halal meat for religious reasons. The battle in Ontario Superior Court comes after the Atlanta-based franchise moved to replace the chicken supply with machine-killed birds in…

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Protest at Mississauga, Ontario mosque

Mississauga.com – October 23, 2011 Protesters were on the sidewalk in front of the Islamic Society of North America Canadian headquarters demonstrating their opposition to a Calling the World Back to Allah conference featuring speakers who have been previously linked to allegations of anti-Semitic and anti-gay remarks. The full-day conference is part of the Canada…

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“Honour Killing” trial begins in Kingston, Ontario

News Agencies – October 21, 2011   A car found at the bottom of an eastern Ontario canal with the bodies of three sisters and their father’s first wife suspended in the water inside seemed to trace a very deliberate path, a murder trial heard. In a case that has raised the issue of so-called…

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