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Created from a single soul – If there is unequal treatment it is because those with power have forgotten the underlying principles of religion
March 27, 2009 – 5:00 pm | No Comment
Created from a single soul – If there is unequal treatment it is because those with power have forgotten the underlying principles of religion

Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Friday 27 March 2009 09.00 GMT
The question: Is religion good for women?
I am irked by this question, the sense it carries with it that women are some kind of second best, an after-thought …

We’ve done the math and, yes, we women have it in us
March 16, 2009 – 12:00 am | No Comment
We’ve done the math and, yes, we women have it in us

SHEEMA KHAN
From Monday’s Globe and Mail
March 16, 2009 at 12:00 AM EDT
A while back, I was given the task of teaching a Grade 12 remedial class in physics. Since the failure rate always hovered around …

Tear Down These Walls
February 13, 2009 – 7:01 pm | No Comment
Tear Down These Walls

By MUNEEB NASIR

It takes specific circumstances to highlight absurdities in the practices of certain Muslim groups.
I attended a fund raiser this past weekend that was held to assist the victims in Gaza.
The event was organized …

OPINION: Veils and Justice
February 4, 2009 – 6:38 pm | One Comment
OPINION: Veils and Justice

By Faisal Kutty
Toronto Star, February 04, 2009
Here they go again. Muslims just don’t give up trying to change our values and roll back hard fought rights of equality and justice. Though this time, we may …

Canada Calling – Ousted Turkish M.P. Merve Kavakci Calls on Canada To Help Hijab-Wearing Muslim Women
January 1, 2001 – 3:58 pm | No Comment
Canada Calling – Ousted Turkish M.P. Merve Kavakci Calls on Canada To Help Hijab-Wearing Muslim Women

By Faisal Kutty – More than 37,000 girls expelled from school. Twenty-four thousand teachers fired. The possible sentencing to death of a mother and her two teenage daughters for participating in a political rally. Thousands …