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Written by Shenaz Karim & Ahmad Luqman
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 21:09 |
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 The horrific events in Boston and the arrests of two men in Canada on terrorism charges sent shock waves of emotion through Muslim communities across North America. The violent killing and maiming of innocents so close to home brought feelings of disbelief, shock, and overwhelming sadness.
For many Muslims, a sickening feeling of dread also grew in the backdrop of all these emotions. As the media machines hurried to churn out headlines, analysis, and reports with the words 'Muslim' and 'terror' splashed across homepages and front pages, you could almost feel the entire Muslim community collectively bracing for a public backlash.
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Written by Sakina bint Erik
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Friday, 12 April 2013 09:15 |
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 Was Jesus, peace be upon him, crucified? Strangely enough, this question – a fundamental point of contention between Muslims and Christians – was what brought adherents of the two faiths together at Carleton University just a week before Easter.
The inter-faith dialogue event, organised jointly by the Carleton University Muslim Students Association and the Power to Change, a Christian missionary organisation, was held on the evening of March 21 at Porter Hall.
The MC from Power to Change introduced the event, explaining that the event was not to be a debate, but a dialogue with a view to bring both sides closer through the discovery of similarities.
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Written by Mustafa Laurence
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013 22:11 |
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In the last few months, the Idle No More movement has come to fruition; a power struggle as old as Canadian history has become headlined and the scrutiny of Canada’s colonial past has become amplified.
This movement, characterized by the Twitter hashtag, #idlenomore, has become a rising-up for indigenous people across Canada, and the effect of the movement’s popularity has been felt elsewhere too, with the United Nations now being involved. In essence, Idle No More is the struggle of a people striving to reclaim sovereignty of their land.
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Written by Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013 22:08 |
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We are all busy, and are forced to prioritize between competing important matters. We cannot do everything, so we are forced to choose.
High on the agenda for any Canadian must be the concern for Canada. We dare not take our great country for granted. There are challenges ahead, in so many areas. High among these challenges, perhaps even highest because of its importance, is the matter of cooperation between the variety of religions and ethnicities that Canada has embraced.
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Written by Hodan Ibrahim
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Monday, 18 February 2013 23:35 |
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Growing up, I never really knew what being an “entrepreneur” or “an innovator” meant. My mother has been a self-employed business woman all her life. And as in many immigrant communities, she was pushed into it by necessity. She struggled, made her own money, sustained a profitable business, and still does.
As the daughter of Muslim immigrants from East Africa, I was expected to follow the work, school and job-sequence until retirement. Owning one’s own business was the ticket to freedom, but as both my parents silently communicated to me: business was the ultimate “end goal” of years of working and saving money.
My parents were small business owners, not entrepreneurs. The traits of risk-taking, executing ideas, building teams, and growing a company were there but in a muted fashion. For them, business is to earn profit. That's it. And for many, that is all business has ever been.
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