Tag Archives: Islamophobia

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM, formerly CAIR-CAN), the leading advocacy group for Canadian Muslims, has been spearheading a campaign to pressure the Conservative Party to disqualify candidates because of their alleged Islamophobic posts on social media.

The Canadian government has adopted anti-racism strategy detailed in an official document titled “Building a Foundation for Change: Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy 2019–2022.”

On March 25, 2019 the Facebook group Calgary Muslims shared an article titled “Public school teachers, principals to be banned from wearing religious symbols” accompanied with the following statement:

Zulfikar Hirji is an Anthropologist and Social Historian of Muslim Societies and Cultures. He is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University, Toronto. He was formerly a Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Imam Syed Soharwardy of Calgary, the head of the Calgary-based Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC) and the founder of Muslims Against Terrorism.

Ibrahim Hindy is the Imam of Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.

On March 17, 2019 Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the South Nepean Muslim Community (SNMC) mosque in Ottawa to express his solidarity with the Muslim community after the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand.

Jawed Anwer, is the founder of the Islamic Party of Ontario located in Scarborough, Ontario.

On October 22, 2018 Syed Jawed Anwar, the founder of the Islamic Party of Ontario, wrote the following on Toronto Sun’s columnist and a secular Muslim Tarek Fatah:

Toronto Against Fascism (TAF) is a radical leftist group of activists who operate across Canada.