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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A shocking incident occurred at UTAA’s AGM this evening in the Hart House Great Hall.
UTAA members Shaila Kibria, Sandra Hudson, and Preethy Sivakumar were subject to racist harassment by another member of the UTAA present at the meeting chaired by UTAA president Paul Cadario. When Kibria tried to bring up the issue [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
It was just the other day that I and other community members gathered at the Square One in Mississauga to mourn the death of Aqsa Pervez, a girl found dead in December…..the newspapers and tv circuits televised our memorial service, candles alight to the rest of the mourning world.
Just now, the Toronto Star reported on Aqsa [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
I went to bed last night all distraught by the rumours circulating about my divorce, my hijab, and my friends. I slept only to get away, not because I was tired. When I awoke and boarded the bus to work, it suddenly hit me that sometimes I just have to stop fighting - I am [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2008
Today, Steve Lambert from The Canadian Press wrote of a “case of two youngsters seized from a couple suspected of being racist” because of “hate-related drawings” on their daughter’s body. It is said that “the girl was sporting a swastika and a white supremacy slogan”. Now the next question is this: could a jude permanently [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2008
I have been wearing the hijab for twenty years now - not so regularly when a teenager, (on and off - you know), but strongly donning it into motherhood, and in my struggles to defend a woman’s choice to wear it. But I did notice something. People - especially Muslim men - tended to respect me more over my other Muslim [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2008
Last night we celebrated Walied’s birthday……and it was so much fun just catching up!!! Honestly, sometimes it is milestones like this that remind us of how important friendships are. Normally, this group of friends is either campaigning for a favourite candidate for election time, or standing on a truck demanding a tuition freeze, or organising a celebration [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2008
So, this is my first post from my new laptop!!! And how did I get this laptop…you may ask?? My friends put a wad of money into a birthday card and insisted that I buy a laptop! And what was more touching….? I had help (from SM) to shop, buy, set up and configure the perfect laptop!!! Now [...]
