The Environment   dating from early Islamic times in North Africa and on the Arabian peninsula. That would be 950 AD or thereabouts. Very obviously, from the debris around these places, the people who ran the operations had abundant water and abundant timber. Now these areas are deserts. They have

Amendment To The Constitution Of Canada (Newfoundland)   a religion than Christianity, Judaism or Islam. It has its set of priests, an orthodoxy which is political correctness, and its rituals. If Newfoundlanders expect that by replacing their current orthodoxy with a secular orthodoxy they will in some manner improve their educational system

Middle East   term goal in mind of making it possible for the people of Iraq to replace the present leadership. History teaches us that whenever we declare war, Mr. Hussein becomes stronger because his population rallies around him. In addition, whenever we declare war, the Islamic world

Middle East   a copy of a letter to the prime minister from the Islamic Humanitarian Service. Its head office is located in my riding. In the letter it stated that Saddam Hussein, the tyrant, will be unaffected personally if military attacks are carried out. However innocent civilians

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present to this house a petition circulated by Iftikha Chan and members of the Islamic society of Cumberland. This petition calls for the President of the Treasury Board to direct all federal departments and agencies to set aside space

Supply  -Christian morality? Do we speak about Islamic morality? Do we speak about human rights? Do we speak about morality of the aboriginal people? What do we mean by morality? Must we always continue to define everything we do based on our own particular religion and wherever we come from

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, the civilized world was fixated when Pakistan detonated the so-called Islamic bomb. At the same time a number of MPs received letters from the Religious Liberties Commission and the Ahmadi movement in Islam. The Ahmadi letter anticipates that changes will be made

Kosovo   with indirect authority from the United Nations to do it and Canada is a player in NATO. Last Sunday I was at an exhibition of Islamic arts and science in the Scarborough area of Toronto. A man came up to me quite unannounced. I did not even get his name. He said please do something about

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have a petition of over 80 pages of signatures. The petition states that Canada should declare Iran as an unsafe country and that government stop all deportations to Iran immediately. The petitioners ask this because in the last 20 years the Islamic republic

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the many Canadian citizens who have signed this petition are lobbying the government to recognize that the Islamic republic of Iran is witnessing a worsening in human rights practices, and yet the Government of Canada considers it a safe country and still deports

Pakistan  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the democratic government of Pakistan was overthrown by a military coup. There have been months of internal strife in that country, with complaints of corruption, repression and growing Islamic fundamentalism. In this context we must remember that Pakistan

Recognition Of Crimes Against Humanity Act   Committee; Buddhist Communities of Greater Toronto; Canadian Arab Federation; Canadian Islamic Congress; Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society; Council of the Muslim Community of Canada; Cypriot Canadian Federation; Federation of Associations of Canadians Tamils; Federation

Eid-Ul Adha  Mr. Speaker, Canadians of the Muslim faith are celebrating Eid-Ul Adha, one of the major festivals of Islam. The festival is held each year to coincide with the pilgrimage to Mecca which itself is a major tenet of the Islamic faith. Eid-Ul Adha is also a time for cultural

Muharan  Mr. Speaker, today is a very special day of celebration for our Muslim community in Canada and elsewhere. It is the commencement of the first day of Muharan, which is the first month of the Hijra calendar in the Islamic religion. Muharan marks the new year for approximately 1.2

Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1999   are responsible for hundreds of disappearances, routinely tortured or otherwise abused detainees, and arbitrarily arrested and detained many individuals suspected of involvement with armed Islamic groups. Human Rights Watch reported that on numerous occasions over the last several years