Citizenship and Immigration committee  I certainly believe we should endorse this bill in terms of curbing all those malpractices that have been mentioned in this bill—polygamy and forced marriages.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I personally believe that calling a spade a spade should not a problem in a free society. I was born and raised in a Muslim family and in a Muslim South Asian culture. First of all, we have to define the culture. When someone asks me who I am, I say that I am Punjabi, South Asia

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, sir. Before I comment on that, I'll just add one line on, as you said, Canadian law versus faith-based laws. Certainly it's not just one cleric who is saying this. This is the basis for the whole sharia law and what some of the clerics look for. We as Canadians need to fig

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I certainly feel that this bill would provide an additional tool in terms of tightened legislation against polygamists and forced marriages issues, because what we have seen and what we see today is that polygamy cases, for instance, are not registered and they don't come under t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Honourable Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, honourable members of Parliament, good morning. My name is Tahir Gora. I am the director general of Canadian Thinkers' Forum, which is a not-for-profit organization and a think

Public Safety committee  I'm not an Internet lawyer or expert on how to address Internet radicalization. Through our research we see so many Facebook groups and pages in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and I'm sure Canadian law enforcement agencies probably don't have full access to the content on those Faceb

Public Safety committee  Yes, it is important to talk to parents. Also, there's a need to create an awareness, as I said, in those languages particularly, because most parents who are Pakistani, Afghani, Arab, and among the Middle Eastern diaspora don't even interact with the community at large. Law enfo

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, they should have.

Public Safety committee  Yes. There are so many clips by Canadian radical elements on those websites or those Facebook pages or those social media pages, especially YouTube. They serve well in spreading hatred toward society in jihad ideology. Those must be taken down. That's the only way to block that h

Public Safety committee  Thank you, sir. We clearly see this legislation as very vital to addressing certainly those issues, because in doing our research work, we really discovered alarming factors in our Muslim diaspora. As I said, being born and raised in a Muslim community, we are able to see that

Public Safety committee  I actually believe that this bill does have some tools, but it should have more actually in terms of curbing jihad propaganda on the Internet by Canadian fellows.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, honourable Chairman of the Standing Committee on Public Safety, honourable parliamentarians, and ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tahir Aslam Gora. I am director general of the Canadian Thinkers' Forum and secretary general of the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Musl