Sep 21, 2016 | Politics
We, the Royal We, have based the discussion about Islomophobia on the assumption that Islam and its ethic; and Western culture and it ethic, are compatible. In truth, nothing could be further from the truth. The ethic that underpins Islam is not in any way...
Sep 11, 2016 | Politics
In the book Orientalism Edward Said wrote about the importance of the First Assumption; that the statement upon which the argument is based is correct, factual. Otherwise the thesis falls apart. Prime Minister Trudeau said February 2016 “Islam is not...
Apr 1, 2016 | Politics
I took umbrage with the underlying thesis Erna Paris expressed in her Globe and Mail article about our attitude toward Syrian refugees “Let’s not cave to fear in 2016.” After the shame of None is too Many that embraced Canada during...
Apr 1, 2016 | Ethics
The recently released “Report on Antisemitic Activity in 2015 at US Colleges and Universities With the Largest Jewish Undergraduate Populations” is the “first empirical study of its kind,” showing that “the primary agents of anti-Semitic...
Sep 10, 2015 | Politics
Fourteen years ago, Sept 11, 2001, the last of the Jews in Syria was flown to freedom. More than 3000 Jewish people trapped under the brutal dictator, Assad, were removed from Syria by the actions of one Canadian woman from Toronto, Judy Feld Carr. The entire...
