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Recent events revealed that Canada's legislators disagree on the meaning of a word that is used frequently in legislation; that word is "terrorism".
As long as the US supports some terrorist organizations and condemns others in order to advance its own political agenda, humanity will be plagued by a persistent evil that beheads, kills, maims, terrorizes and destroys everything in its path.
The father of the current Amir of Qatar once complained to me that Canada would not approve of his small, but oil-rich state opening an embassy in Ottawa. Some years later, Qatar was successful in its bid for diplomatic presence in our capital; it headquartered its new embassy in a five-star hotel next to Parliament Hill and a geographical stone's throw from CSIS, our national spy agency.
Most neighbours, even good ones, aren't usually willing to take on raw-nerve issues that could potentially generate misunderstanding, bewilderment or fear. Just try mentioning "terrorism," "radicalization," or "jihadist" as topics for a friendly discussion.
Erica Watson rejected the old nature versus nurture argument. We are a combination of the two. She and fellow social worker Janine Lawford were giving a seminar in Ottawa on working with children, youth, and families affected by trauma.
GSTAAD AND CAIRO--In the early 1990s, Robert Pelletreau, the United States ambassador to Egypt, met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Washington, D.C. Pelletreau had been asked by then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher to discuss the possibility of Egypt relaxing its repressive stance towards the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political party with a long history of being alternately tolerated and oppressed by the Egyptian government.
Muslims in the West have felt uncomfortable since 9/11. Now Canadian Muslims fear they are being turned into a political football for this year's federal election.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is battling a Muslim woman who at a citizenship ceremony refused to remove her niqab (a veil commonly worn by Muslim women in public that covers the whole face apart from the eyes). She said that she would not violate her religious beliefs. But the losers in the long run are likely to be Canadian Muslims, whom Islamophobes accuse of trying to impose their customs on Canadians. The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that it's "unlawful" to force immigrants to remove the veil while taking the oath of citizenship because Canada's immigration law empowers citizenship judges to accommodate religious needs.
Barb Weir is the pseudonym of a satire writer and social justice advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Various health conditions have their day, week, or month. Mental health and illness have at least two.
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In early 2023, months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians, renowned French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd opined that World War III had begun.