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Canadian Heritage committee  I will leave the answer to Dr. Landau. I'll just briefly mention that your committee should also recommend establishing a body—perhaps an independent body—where people who are the actual victims of any hate crime, any suffering, or any discrimination can go safely and independent

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

Canadian Heritage committee  Is my time starting now?

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

Canadian Heritage committee  Very briefly, I believe in the motive and the political will to act. You have to see what works. The Muslim community is extremely diverse, like many communities, like your community. You mentioned 600-some numbers but there is a problem that overall that culture has somehow acce

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

Canadian Heritage committee  What that does is it, inadvertently perhaps, creates resentment in the group that is not addressed. Any time, in any discourse, when you talk about religious discrimination, and you talk about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, they should actually be uttered together in the same se

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. One of the second points was that Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same coin. We have this habit of trying to isolate them as two different things.

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. We will divide our time into five minutes each. Considering that we have only five minutes each, I'll put myself on fast-forward.

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. The Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims is the first bilateral Jewish-Muslim organization dedicated to creating co-operation between Jews and Muslims in combatting anti-Semitism and prejudice against Muslims. CAJM was established at a time when Islamophobia was n

November 1st, 2017Committee meeting

Shahid Akhtar