Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019

This guide assigns a grade to each federal political party Leader\u27s response to identified key issues of importance to the interests of Canadian Muslims and the wider geopolitical concerns that affect Muslims globally. The criteria used to determine these grades has been based on whether a party leader\u27s particular political standpoints and/or policy initiatives are positive or detrimental to the interests of Canadian Muslims and the wider geopolitical concerns that affect Muslims globally

Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019

This guide assigns a grade to each federal political party Leader\u27s response to identified key issues of importance to the interests of Canadian Muslims and the wider geopolitical concerns that affect Muslims globally. The criteria used to determine these grades has been based on whether a party leader\u27s particular political standpoints and/or policy initiatives are positive or detrimental to the interests of Canadian Muslims and the wider geopolitical concerns that affect Muslims globally

Muslim students in public schools, education and the politics of religious identity

grantor: University of TorontoThis study uses ethnogtaphic research methods to examine Sunni Muslim students and experiences as a religious minority in the public school system in Canada. Dominant norms and values are encoded into school policies, practices and curriculum. Many of these create areas of contention for Muslims. For Muslim students, the fundamental incompatibility between Islamic ideology and praxis and the secular public school system can create dissonance, alienation, and in many cases, a desire to conform to the cultural practices within schools and society, at the expense of an Islamic way of life. This study, however, focuses on those students who strive to maintain an Islamic identity and lifestyle and will examine how this informs their educational experiences. The focus will also be upon how education has become an arena for contemporary cultural politics, and how Muslims use their religious identities to challenge Eurocentrism in school policies practices, and curriculum.M.A

I know who I am, but who do they think I am? Muslim perspectives on encounters with airport authorities.

In this paper we report an analysis of individual and group interviews with thirty-eight Scottish Muslims concerning their encounters with authority – especially those at airports. Our analysis shows that a key theme in interviewees’ talk of their experience in this context concerns the denial and misrecognition of valued identities such as being British, being respectable and being Muslim. One reason why such experiences are so problematic concerns the denial of agency associated with being positioned in terms that are not one's own. The implications of these findings for understanding the dynamics of intergroup relations are discussed.PreprintPeer reviewe