Archive for the ‘Muslim religion’ Category
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
(AFP)
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - Hamas on Wednesday announced new regulations on shops selling women's clothes as part of a campaign to safeguard "public morality" in its Gaza enclave.
The police said shops selling women's clothes must not have dressing rooms or tinted windows, and that the mannequins on display out ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
This article from Agence France-Presse looks at how Hamas is trying to influence Gaza's children via its summer camps, set up in oppostion to the United Nations' own summer camps:
A battle for the hearts and minds of children in the Gaza Strip has broken out with competing summer camps.
Both ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Here's an op-ed from the July 21 National Post:
Toronto's Newest Speaking Star: A Would-be Suicide Bomber
by Terry Glavin, Special to the National Post
'Long live the Taliban" might seem an unlikely thing for a prominent anti-war figure to declare, but that's to-day's peace movement for you. Stranger still, the man who ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
The following editorial appears in today's Ottawa Citizen:
THE OLD BAIT-AND-SWITCH
When confronted with a political protest, it’s useful to look carefully at who exactly the protesters are. Sometimes people are not what they seem.
Anti-Israel campaigns are most notorious for bait-and-switch. Protests that are supposed to be about the legitimate rights of ...
Posted in Community, Israel Advocacy, Judaism, Muslim religion | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
This must-read piece by Ben-Dror Yemini was originally published in Hebrew, in MAARIV on May 15, 2009. Yemini brilliantly contrasts the Palestinian Nakba Day with the suffering of Jews in Arab countries over the centuries, who have survived a "catastrophe" of their own many times worse. The purpose of this piece, as Yemini ...
Posted in Judaism, Middle East, Muslim religion, Palestinian affairs | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
On Jan. 23, TVO's "The Agenda with Steve Paiken" featured a debate on the Meaning of Jihad. Participants were:
Shabir Ally, president of the Islamic Information and Dawah Centre.
Mohammad Fadel, a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He has also published numerous articles on Islamic legal ...
Posted in Media, Muslim religion | 1 Comment »
