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Today, many of the best-selling books and published op-eds on Islam present a version of Islam, which is very different from the one I know. Worst still, news coverage highlights the Islam practiced by terrorists and extremists.
Few are the outspoken Palestinian Christians and rarely their views on the Palestinian-Israeli issue are published. Worst still Western Churches and evangelical politicians, like Canada's Prime Minster Stephen Harper, never listen to their voices.
The decision by Federal Court Justice Anne Mactavish throws a spanner in the wheels of the Harper government's attack on refugees.
Incontinence was recently addressed in an on-line seminar given by Champlain Rehab Solutions. The presenter was Susan Watson, RN, Regional Manager of the Chatham-Kent, Sarnia-Lambton Branch of VHA Home Health Care. What follows is a summary of her remarks, both condensed and enhanced.
Canada's immigration policies have been more successful than those of the United States and European countries. That was the view expressed by Irene Bloemraad, a sociology professor at the University of California, in a talk given to the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Parliamentary dining room on April 3.
Iraqi Yazidis have been in the news lately, and not pleasant news. The Islamic State extremists have overrun some Yazidi villages, with the command to convert to their brand of Islam or die. Many have been killed or have fled. Women have been carried off. But who are the Yazidis?
The busy promoters of aggressive war at the Globe and Mail got their money shot on an Iraqi runway. The dominant image on the middle page of the first section of the Sept. 4 edition pictured the Canadian government's Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, flanked by his partisan "critics" in the NDP and Liberal parties.
Egypt 2530 is how Egyptians refer to a new Egypt, in reference to two popular uprisings, both supported by their armed forces, that of January 25, 2011 and the other of June 30, 2013. Both successfully got rid of two tyrants, one secular, Hosni Mubarak, and the second is an Islamist, Mohamed Morsy.
Among the many allegations Muslims face, "radicalizing of Muslim youth" is one, so often repeated, that almost everyone believes this to be true. What is even more troubling is when we see some of our leaders and imams agonizing over this allegation and subjecting the Muslims to baseless jeremiads. So, it behooves upon us to scrutinize if this allegation is based on myth, chicanery or credible facts. We might then feel some solace to our troubled conscience.
Robin Williams, who committed suicide Monday, marked only the latest superstar plagued by demons of depression.
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