Friends, British Muslim journalist Zaiba Malik had never worn the niqab. But with everyone from Jack Straw to Tessa Jowell weighing in with their views on the veil, she decided to put one on for the day. She was shocked…
06/12/2005 Veiled Threats By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The Evening Standard Last week when I was browsing in shops on Chiswick High Road, I became aware of awoman shadowing me, rather too close in that private space we all subconsciously carry around…
March 27, 2006 Masking the truth By Prof. Mohammad Qadeer Queen’s University, Kingston Globe and Mail, Toronto If you live in New York, London, Toronto or other cities of Europe and North America, you may have seen an occasional woman with…
Mar 7, 2002 updated Aug 31, 2017 By Daniel Pipes The niqab and burqa both should be banned on security grounds, because one cannot allow faceless and bodyless persons walking the streets, driving cars, and otherwise making use of public…
In 2016, during my visit to India, I was hosted by ‘India TV’ in their prime time current affairs show ‘Aap Ki Adalat’ (Your Court). Millions saw me being interrogated on Live TV and that discussion was repeated many times. Aap…
November 2013 – BBC Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban reports, Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will. He reports that “several nuclear weapons made in Pakistan for Saudi Arabia are…
“Three things mark the Khadr announcement. The government didn’t want to be associated with it. They wanted it done swiftly. And they didn’t want Trudeau on the same continent when the news broke” …
July 4, 2017 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Two news stories concerning terrorism should make Canadians realize that not only are we being governed under the doctrine of ‘sock and awe’, but that our values have turned upside down in…
July 5, 2017 Farzana Hassan The Toronto Sun Ever since the Trudeau government’s reported $10 million-plus settlement with Omar Khadr became public, one aspect of the debate has centred around whether he was responsible for his actions at the age…
“Omar Khadr was the luckiest teenager in the world and remains one of the world’s most fortunate adults. Just how many times in combat does an enemy kill the unit medic and survive to be captured? Let alone that Khadr was…
July 7, 2017 Terry Glavin Macleans Magazine Well. That was quick. Only five days into a national bedlam of opprobrium and sanctimony that began with rumours that Ottawa intended to say sorry and shell out $10.5 million to make amends…
July 5, 2017 By Mark Bonokoki The Toronto Sun In the bombed-out and bullet-riddled al-Qaida compound in Afghanistan where Omar Khadr was the only survivor, albeit shot up and near death, U.S. military personnel found a very telling video. It showed…
