Canadian Heritage committee  That's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  Canadians are incredibly welcoming, sometimes to a fault. I mentioned my being from the Muslim world and the fact that none of this is new to me. In the Muslim world, we have a lot of laws against the niqab, for example. There are a lot of restrictions on the niqab in Egypt, Qata

Canadian Heritage committee  There are Muslims, there are Islamists, and there are jihadis. There is no confusion among those three groups if you speak to anybody from the Muslim world. The confusion happens here, in the western world, where people see all three groups as Muslims.

Canadian Heritage committee  Correct. The word “Islamophobia” is dealing with the religion itself; it's not talking about the different kinds of people. Muslims, of course, are just average Muslims. Within Muslims, you're going to have Islamists and jihadis, who are also Muslims. Islamists, as Karim was desc

Canadian Heritage committee  —that we are losing sight of the fact that safety is more important.

Canadian Heritage committee  Ms. Chair, committee members, thank you for inviting me here and giving me the opportunity to speak about something that is very personal to me. I was born and raised in Canada. I both attended and taught at publicly funded Islamic schools in Canada. I wore a hijab from the age