By the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (June 8, 2021) Our hearts go out to the remaining members of the Afzaal family of London, ON, who suffered the loss of four members and the wounding of a 9-year-old child…
Jan. 29, 2020 — Winnipeggers gathered at the First Unitarian Universalist Church to commemorate the 2017 attack on a Quebec City Mosque which resulted in 6 deaths and another 19 wounded. This gathering, the third such held in Winnipeg, was…
Kevin Sieff, Washington Post Since World War II, U.N. peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts — civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaeda. Here in the vast, lawless desert…
by Shahina Siddiqui The horrific and cowardly attacks by IS in Turkey, Beirut and Paris are a reminder that violence begets violence. French President François Hollande, by declaring war on IS, has unleashed air strikes against IS “headquarters” — a…
by Shahina Siddiqui Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s obsession with what he considers jihad is reaching the point of fatal attraction. In his latest assault on Canadians’ rights and freedoms, Harper has promised if elected he will ban travel to “terrorist…
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Sept. 20, 2010 Those who embrace violence, whether in the form of acts of terrorism or acts of war, are necrophiliacs. They worship death. They sacrifice life, including at times their own, for the heady intoxication…
Some of the most influential Muslim scholars in India have passed a resolution condemning all forms of violence in the name of Islam. The Deoband is an influential Islamic school inspiring tens of thousands of religious study centres across the…
