By Faisal Kutty – Muslims and Arabs in Canada are bracing themselves against the growing backlash from the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The onslaught, in fact, has already begun. …

By Faisal Kutty – Recent efforts by a multi-faith coalition to campaign for family values drew criticism from gay and lesbian groups. The coalition, mostly made up of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs and Hindus, held …

By Faisal Kutty – During his short tenure in office, former Indian prime minister, Deve Gowda, made a very courageous statement. He openly admitted that the Muslim minority in India had been neglected and ignored …

By Faisal Kutty – Tommy Lee Jones. Samuel Jackson. Gratuitous violence. Action-packed thriller. You’ve seen the arresting trailers. Ingredients of a box-office hit? Yes, indeed. William Friedkin’s latest movie Rules of Engagement topped the …

By Faisal Kutty – It seems like the question of race and discrimination in the criminal justice system in the U.S. will be staying in the headlines even after the Diallo murder trial fades into …

By Faisal Kutty – December 6, 1992 is etched in the consciousness of almost every Indian Muslim. This was the date a mosque built in 1528 was turned into rubble by frenzied Hindu mobs who …

By Faisal Kutty – Yasser Arafat’s shuttle diplomacy in preparation for the May 4 ending of the five-year Oslo accord peace process brought him to Canada on March 24. After a 2-1/2-hour meeting with Arafat, …

By Faisal Kutty
Executions, torture, arbitrary detention, unfair political trials and destruction of property are among the offences catalogued in a 92-page report released in April by Amnesty International.
Most of the findings can be corroborated by …

By Faisal Kutty and Bushra Yousuf – Bruce Willis. Denzel Washington. New York City. Action-packed thriller. You’ve seen the arresting trailers. Ingredients of a box-office hit? Probably. Edward Zwick’s new movie The Siege appears to …

By Faisal Kutty – A prominent imam visiting North America from Egypt was handcuffed, strip- searched and detained without the right to legal counsel by Canadian immigration authorities on Jan. 7, 1998 while trying to …

By Faisal Kutty
Special to Arab News — Media interest in Islam and Muslim has proliferated since the growth of Islamic movements, the Gulf war and, more recently, in the wake of the World Trade …

By Faisal Kutty – Media interest in Islam and Muslims has proliferated since the growth of Islamic revivalist movements, the Gulf war and, more recently, in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing. Members …