Canadian Heritage committee  That was since changed—if you don't have this—to “Palestinians say hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on hospital; Israel blames Islamic Jihad”. This still lives on the CBC website. This headline is still there. It remains on the website. I would hope you would agree with me that in fact the Palestinian health authority is controlled by Hamas.

Public Safety  The only thing that they stand for is more suffering for Israeli and Palestinian civilians.” With regard to condemning the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, I would like to emphasize that the Government of Canada uses various legal tools and has robust and far-reaching measures in place against Iran and the IRGC.

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you not think that Canada should be supplying these barrels of oil to our closest trading partner and ally in lieu of the strategic petroleum reserve releases, after the lifting of sanctions on a pretty brutal regime in Venezuela and a blind eye being turned to increased output from the Islamic Republic of Iran? That's my question.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In 2002, the Hazara people of Afghanistan suffered over 300 targeted massacres. Since 2015, the Islamic State-Khorasan Province, ISKP, affiliated with the Haqqani Network, and it has claimed responsibility for some of these massacres, giving the Taliban a way to deny responsibility, even though the Haqqani Network is part of the Taliban government.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Despite this tragic situation, the Shia or the Shia Hazaras have also been facing widespread and continued attacks by the Islamic State-Khorasan Province, as well as by other armed groups across the country. Since 2015, Hazaras have been a target at schools, on public transport, at mosques, during prayers, at sport clubs, at hospitals, at wedding ceremonies and during religious rituals.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know if it hit all 337 of us, but it referred to the ample evidence that has now been shared by Israeli authorities demonstrating that a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket was actually responsible for striking the Gaza hospital last Tuesday. They go on. It's a fairly in-depth letter that most of us received from CIJA. The letter said that all those who rushed to condemn Israel, without any evidence, have a responsibility to correct the record and apologize and that they also have a responsibility to condemn.

Canadian Islamic History Month  Speaker, since its first recorded presence in the 1860s, the Muslim community in Canada has grown to 1.8 million people. October is celebrated as the Canadian Islamic History Month, in recognition of the significant contributions that Muslims have made in the arts, sports, academics, literature, sciences and in their communities. Canadian Islamic History Month is a time to learn about the history of Islam in Canada, and about the past and ongoing challenges and barriers that Muslim Canadians face.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  It is a sad state of affairs when there are so many countries run by authoritarian governments that are fighting against that and rolling back rights, whether it be the Islamic regime in Iran against its citizens, the Hamas terrorist organization and proxy for Iran in the world doing what it did on October 7 with the slaughter of over 1,400 Israeli and foreign nationals, or other countries as well.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As we know, historically the Taliban are a group that embraces two different types of tendencies in Afghanistan. One is an extremist interpretation of Islam in which Shia Islam is not regarded as a legitimate sect within the broader Islamic community. Second, the Taliban also embraces a particularly violent and exclusionary form of ethnic nationalism in Afghanistan, which I have recently discussed in an article that was published by The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

Violence Around the World  In the space of just a few days, a teacher in France was killed by a radicalized former student, two Swedish tourists in Belgium were murdered in the name of the Islamic State and a six-year-old boy in the U.S. was killed and his mother seriously injured by their landlord because they were Muslim. This murderous madness must end. Nobody can take justice into their own hands no matter how angry they are.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Ibrahimi, but maybe the other witnesses will want to weigh in on it as well. What is the nature of the Taliban discourse towards Shia Islam in general? To what extent is generalized Shia persecution part of the persecution of Hazaras, or do you see it as more of an ethnically targeted persecution?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  All of this, I think, brings us to the fact that the Hazaras are not only the victims of a genocide that was quite well documented in Afghanistan historically; there is also at present the danger of a genocide and atrocities targeting the Hazaras under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. The Taliban as well as other groups, such as Islamic State Khorasan, are committing a series of acts of violence and mass atrocities that are specifically targeted towards the Hazaras and indicate an intention to destroy the Hazaras in whole and in part as an ethnic and religious group in Afghanistan.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They are also generally identified by their central Asian phenotype, which distinguishes them from the rest of the population of Afghanistan. The Hazaras are also predominantly followers of Shia Islam. As a result, they are a religious minority in a country of predominantly Sunni Muslims. They also speak a distinctive dialect of Dari or Persian in Afghanistan. All of these features constitute the Hazaras as a distinctive ethnic and religious group under international law, especially within the context of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank  Obviously this terrorist organization, Hamas, could not have organized a terrorist operation of this magnitude without support from people with means. We are talking here about the funded Iranian group, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Does my colleague agree that the House has a duty to condemn this group and recognize it as a terrorist organization?

Situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank  It calls for the complete destruction of Israel as an essential condition for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a theocratic state based on Islamic law. It states the need for an unrestrained and unceasing jihad to obtain that objective and the outright dismissal of any negotiated resolution or political settlement of Jewish or Muslim claim to the land.