Procedure and House Affairs committee   was on this, and that very important statement they made that it is not a requirement of Islam that Muslim women stay covered. They would be more than willing to lift their veils if that is the requirement. So I was just in the process of underscoring what I consider to be a fairly significant statement

Foreign Affairs committee  , I wonder if the Pakistani government is not speaking out of both sides of its mouth. Internally, the discourse seems to be pro-Islamic in order to get the people on their side. Outside, the discourse is more conciliatory in order to win support from the Government of Canada

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon, committee. This is meeting 13 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Our orders of the day today include a briefing on the situation in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. As witnesses today we

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, the transnational terrorist networks of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah share a common identity and purpose. Each seeks, by its own acknowledgment and assertion, the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews everywhere. Each partakes of a culture

Foreign Affairs   by the parading in the streets of Tehran of a Shahab-3 missile draped in the emblem, “Wipe Israel off the map”, and warning Muslims that those who recognize Israel will burn in the Umma of Islam. Finally, we should not ignore the domestic mass repression in Ahmadinejad's Iran of Iranian

Foreign Affairs   accounts have helped it accumulate comfortable foreign exchange reserves. EDC concludes, as a result, that Iran can afford in the medium term to disregard the UN’s demands. Seen from another angle, the Sudanese and Iranian regimes rely almost exclusively on Islamic financial

Foreign Affairs   pressure on Iran to stop its destabilizing influence and end its support for militant groups in the region such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The defence minister's expressed concern over support for the Taliban coming from Iran is a testament to Iran's spoiler

Foreign Affairs committee   difficult. The chief constraint is insecurity stemming primarily from the ongoing conflict in the south between the Ethiopian-backed transitional federal government, or the TFG, and a loose coalition of Islamic insurgent groups. Humanitarian agencies report increasing difficulties

Questions on the Order Paper   terrorism The right to food Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Situation of human rights in Myanmar Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Situation of human rights in Belarus Convention on the Rights of Persons

Procedure and House Affairs committee   evacuated more than 30,000 dual citizens from Lebanon. We have dual-citizen Canadians fighting as part of the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, and some dual citizens were in Afghanistan fighting on the side of the country's enemy--

Public Safety committee  . But, if I have a beard and am a devoted follower of Islam, they will take me for an extremist. An extremist can also be deported if he presents a threat. If I'm unmarried, I pass for someone who could become a suicide bomber; if I am married, it's nothing but a cover. If I don't work

Public Safety committee  . When I was preparing to leave prison, they changed the allegations. They said that I no longer had the profile of a sleeper agent. Indeed, the Director of Sunni-Islamic Counterterrorism—I don't know his name because it's a secret, since he is a CSIS agent—testified before the court

Public Safety committee  Okay. We'll now move over to the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations. Please introduce yourself, sir, and go ahead.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I believe I have 10 minutes?

Public Safety committee  , gentlemen, to introduce yourselves. Then we have the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations and Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui. The usual practice at the committee, gentlemen, is that we allow you an introductory statement of approximately 10 minutes, and then we'll have