Tag: Islamophobia
The crusade against a broken system
A January 2018 article in the Toronto Star titled, “A broken system is harming those with mental illness,” detailed Soleiman Faqiri’s last moments in...
Trump’s hatred unleashes support
This week, L’Oreal Paris starred a hijab-wearing model for a new hair campaign. The model, a British YouTuber and beauty blogger, Amena Khan, is...
How we should discuss M103
In 2015, when I heard Iqra Khalid speak at UTM during the campaigning period for the Mississauga-Erin Mills riding, she was a newly-minted Liberal...
U of T responds to U.S. ban order
Following the executive order by the U.S. president Donald Trump that temporarily bans seven predominantly-Muslim countries from entrance to America, Ontario premier, Kathleen Wynne,...
Islamophobia at U of T party
U of T’s St. Michael’s College Student Union’s vice-president Kevin Vando agreed to resign from the union following an Islamophobic video that he shared...
We are all “jihadists”
Last week, I talked about building character and used the international response to the Paris attacks as an example of us looking out for...
How to be a good citizen
One of the things that bothers me about our education system is that while it promotes a great deal of learning, it doesn’t do...