Foreign Affairs committee  I think we should enhance tolerance, enhance freedom of religion. It's relevant to all issues that Muslims be able to speak freely about their beliefs regarding Islam, regarding Muhammad, as Jews and Christians can, without fearing any retaliation or violence from their own commu

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, ISIS started in 2003, with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He also established an Islamic state, but it didn't hold. The Islamic State these days is stronger, and I think it has existed for over 160 days already. We see that they are based on the ground. There are no simple

Foreign Affairs committee  There's another category. It's freedom of thought. Even if you're thinking a different way from the mainstream radical Islamic, you could be executed. You are an apostate. There are different categories. You cannot think otherwise. Why are we looking to the Middle East? We cann

Foreign Affairs committee  I will be very quick. Support is crucial for the minorities in Iraq. The problem is that humanitarian support alone is not enough, because they will be swept by the other forces; they have to be supported by military means as well. Without military means, without weapons in Iraq

Foreign Affairs committee  We have seen for many years the transfer of funds and weapons into conflict areas that brings about terrorism and instability. It started with what is called dawah, propagating for Islam by Saudi Arabia in the sixties and into the late seventies, which meant to build communities

Foreign Affairs committee  That's what Muhammad said. I just quoted Muhammad.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  The restoration of the caliphate that ended in the last century when the Ottoman Empire collapsed triggered the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s, and later the Hizb ut-Tahrir in the 1950s. By the way, the Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Muslim organizat

Foreign Affairs committee  We can look into the larger picture of the Middle East and then into Iraq and look at what's happening in Lebanon. Lebanon is divided. Syria has disintegrated. Yemen has disintegrated also. Shiites supported by Iran took over the capital city of Sana'a. We see the pressures insid

Foreign Affairs committee  What was said in the testimony about Assad and ISIS? What was the main argument?

Foreign Affairs committee  You asked me about what was said about ISIS and Assad. ISIS, the Islamic State, is—

Foreign Affairs committee  I can comment on it. ISIS, the Islamic State, is an enemy of Assad because for ISIS, the Assad regime represents an infidel government, the Alawites, which is an offshoot of the Shiites. For ISIS they should be executed as apostates, and particularly, Syria is called al-Sham. A

Foreign Affairs committee  That's what I said.

Foreign Affairs committee  Are you talking about the Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Iraq?

Foreign Affairs committee  When we are talking about the problems in the Middle East, we should not expect that we, Canada, or the west, or even the U.S., can solve the problems between Sunnis and Shiites, or that we can change Islam. This is their own religion, their own faith. They have other problems wh