Foreign Affairs committee  Okay. I appreciate your answers. Thank you. You mentioned UNRWA in your opening remarks. UNRWA has long had problems being associated with terrorism. For example, on May 8, 2008, Reuters reported that an UNRWA headmaster, a teacher, was a rocket maker for Islamic Jihad. More

Islamic History Month  Mr. Speaker, over the weekend, I had the honour of attending the Kindred Radiant Ladies Night Gala, organized by the Coalition of Muslim Women. October is Islamic History Month, and this event was a platform for raising funds in support of the coalition's vital advocacy work

Islamic History Month  Mr. Speaker, as Islamic History Month comes to an end, I will be reflecting on it and indeed on history in general. My recent meetings with the Ismaili community at the Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre allowed me to see first-hand the artistic, intellectual and scientific

Foreign Affairs   by Mainstreet Research showed that over 71% of Canadians support the call for a ceasefire. Canadian aid agencies, including CARE, Development and Peace, Islamic Relief, Oxfam, Médecins du Monde and Save the Children are urging the Government of Canada to take a strong and resolute stance

Foreign Affairs committee   a strong and resolute stance in demanding a ceasefire in order to prevent further loss of civilian life and allow for the delivery of critical humanitarian assistance: CARE Canada, Cooperation Canada, Development and Peace, Human Concern International, Humanity & Inclusion, Islamic

Canadian Islamic History Month  Mr. 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

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not familiar with that file. I'll find out if that possibility has already been considered. As Major‑General Smith said, the biometric capabilities of the Canadian Forces are used in our operations, for example against the Islamic State, and not in the context

Canadian Heritage committee   and other Palestinians seeking shelter, killing hundreds. However, the Israeli military said it had no involvement in the explosion, which it says was caused by a misfired rocket from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. I think it speaks for itself.

Canadian Heritage committee   have been updated and provided with more information, as more information came out about the role that Islamic Jihad's failed rocket played in killing those people?

Canadian Heritage committee  I appreciate that it's an Associated Press article. In your mandate, you are responsible to Canadians. It's $1.4 billion of taxpayer money. You said that you stand by the statement “Palestinians say hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on hospital; Israel blames Islamic Jihad

Canadian Heritage committee  —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

Public Safety   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

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   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

Foreign Affairs committee   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   is the Afghan Dari word for “graveyard”. In August 1998, in just a few days, the Taliban massacred 8,000 Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif. In 2002, the Hazara people of Afghanistan suffered over 300 targeted massacres. Since 2015, the Islamic State-Khorasan Province, ISKP, affiliated