The National Post profiles Canadian Sheema Khan on reconciling her faith with gender concerns

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

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Canadian Sheema Khan responds to possible French burqa ban

Following last month’s call by the Muslim Canadian Congress to ban the face-covering niqab, or buraa, about 30 Muslim groups across Canada denounced the proposal. Their basis: The state has no business dictating what a woman should wear, nor infringing on individual freedoms. Sheema Khan acknowledges, however, how legalities aside, many Canadians feel uncomfortable seeing

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Sheema Khan calls for action following Canadian terror cases

In this opinion piece in the Globe and Mail daily newspaper, Canadian Muslim Sheema Khan calls on Canadian Muslims to take the threat of “home grown” terrorism seriously and warns the faithful of its danger. The Qur’an and the example of the Prophet Mohammed, she adds, are unequivocal in condemning harm to non-combatants and property.

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Globe and Mail opinion piece claims divide between those who run Canadian Mosques and those who attend

Sheema Khan suggests in this opinion piece that there is a growing separation between leadership and those who attend mosques in the West. She claims that this disconnect is being played out in Ottawa, Ontario where the city’s largest mosque has been embroiled in controversy as it searches for a permanent imam. The mosque’s directors

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