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Muslim Canadian Congress Calls for a Ban on the Burka

“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” My hero, Tarek Fatah, appeared on Coren fighting for his cause on behalf of the Muslim Canadian Congress: Tarek is definitely one man who can hold his own in front of anyone in the [ READ MORE ]

Not Quite Hypocrisy

Ian wrote a post recently claiming that those of us who want to talk with religious folks might just be hypocrites. I can most definitely see his point - but I think his point is wrong and that comparing religious people to child molestors is a pretty disgusting and unfair way to make a point. I [ READ MORE ]

Islamic Beauty Pageant

Trust me, it’s better than the original one I had picked out…. Who am I to say what liberates a woman? I personally don’t have the right to tell a woman that what she is doing isn’t liberation. However… the following is just a sort of “liberation” that I find counterproductive. Women in Islam can’t show skin. [ READ MORE ]

Help is needed!

Gordo has posted a long post about Iraq agencies being in some desperate need. He links to articles about just how bad the situation is. Malnutrition rates in children under five have almost doubled since the US-led invasion - to nearly 8% by the end of last year, it says. Some 17,000 children die every day from [ READ MORE ]

Rant on the veil and hypocritial attempts at being liberalizing

Why is it that Muslim woman have become a symbol to the western world of all that the word oppression means? Whether this is a tool of propaganda used by those who want Islam to remain “the other”, as the epitome of terrorism and aggression is not up for much debate. Muslim women were polled and it was [ READ MORE ]

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