Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  On October 9, yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  What's changed right now? Iraq lived in a peaceful atmosphere, more or less, during Saddam Hussein. After Saddam Hussein was taken out after the American invasion, the majority of the Shi’as started to take over the Iraqi government, because they are the majority. They founded an

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't have a relationship with my family because they disowned me once I converted from Islam to Christianity when I was 18 years old.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The expectation was freedom, freedom of religion. Mr. Sweet, we are not here to speak against Muslims; we are here because of the persecution of the Christian minorities. I am here because I'm against the extremists, wherever they are. When the revolution started on January 25,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I want to warn all of you that some of the pictures are very graphic, so if you don't have the heart for it don't look at them. After this attack, over 27 Christians were killed in these peaceful demonstrations. Over 300 were injured. Some of the injured couldn't go to another

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I would like to thank all of you for having me here. It's always a pleasure to see all of you again. Today I will be discussing with you the human rights situation in Egypt and Iraq. I will also touch briefly on the situation of minorities i

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I am not able to discuss all the cases, because some of them are confidential. But I can speak about a few. An immigration lawyer by the name of Chantal Desloges recently testified here. She and I took the case of Mr. Magde Youssef. He was an Egyptian who faced persecution back

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to all of you so much for this opportunity. I want to thank Mr. Mario Silva for working with me and for coming with me to Afghanistan. It was a brave action you took by coming all the way with me to Afghanistan, and I thank you for that. Mr.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I believe they confronted the Afghani government with these issues. I don't think they confronted them about the freedom of religion. I didn't hear this in the meeting. I think it was more about the boy play and Shia law—the women's status law—in Afghanistan. What I got was tha

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  On every count. I think there was actually a meeting. She shared with me that she went to a meeting with Mr. Hamid Karzai himself, and he told her he would take a look at it, this and that. After that, he passed a law. He completely dismissed and ignored her.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would assume so. I don't know the exact scheduling of meetings with him. But actually it was passed before the last Afghani election.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm saying to connect it. In the last nine years we've given $1.5 billion to the Afghanistan mission. Forget about the money. The money is not as important as 150 Canadian soldiers. If we did not succeed in putting conditions, and we saw the reality and the fruit on the ground..