Toronto’s Largest Muslim School Tournament

OnIslam – March 8, 2012 The Annual Muslim Interscholastic Tournament (MIST Toronto) is set to open on Saturday, March 10 on the York University campus for an annual Muslim interscholastic tournament. Launched in 2001 by a freshman at the University of Houston, MIST is a fun, educational, interactive program of competitions and workshops. It aims…

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Five years since the Ontario Sharia Debate

The Toronto Star – September 11, 2010 Harvey Simmons, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science at York University, has written this short piece reflecting on the Sharia debate which transpired five years ago in the province of Ontario. He claims that it is still not clear why Premier McGuinty dumped religious arbitration. Some…

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York University President Mamdouh Shoukri Comments on Upcoming Middle East Forum

A controversial conference set for next week at York University in Toronto, Canada on options for statehood for Israeli and Palestine has provoked a backlash from several Jewish groups who see it as an attack on the Jewish state, masquerading as academic debate. Their campaign to cancel the event has outraged some faculty associations, who…

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Former judge seeks to bar Muslims from University Scholarships in two Canadian universities

A retired judge from Windsor, ON, Paul Staniszewski, who funds scholarships at two Canadian universities requested that those scholarships not be awarded to any students “of Islamic background,” calling his decision a form of “retaliation” against the Taliban. Staniszewski, 84, says he made the request after learning of the beheading of Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak…

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Polemical Canadian Muslim calls for ijtihad in Globe and Mail commentary

Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble With Islam Today (2004) and director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University, calls for ijtihad in this commentary. Manji claims that an important response to the Gaza crisis is for Muslims to call into question their tradition understandings of the Qur’an and to foster debate. Manji…

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