Honour Killing – Editorial
For several weeks, beginning October 20, 2011 when the trial of the quadruple murder committed by three members of the Afghan-Canadian, Shafia family began, the airwaves to print media dominated the proceedings. For most part, serious, thoughtful discourses were lacking…read more
Honour Killing – Haroon Siddiqui
Only a few were curious what a Star columnist thought of the wretched crime. Given the plethora of opinions available on multiple platforms these days, the world does not exactly lie in wait for some pundit to pontificate. Most readers had more specific reasons to needle…read more
Honour Killing – Ricl Salitin
The Shafia case is so unsettling that it seems to unleash the search for a single key to explain it. Then you could toss away other keys that don’t work, and even lock the door to a recurrence. But I don’t think that’s the way to go…read more
Honour Killing – Should We Call it Honour Killing?
The extensive media coverage of the Shafia trial and convictions raises important questions about how violence against women is framed in the media. Just as a photograph is framed by the photographer, so is the media’s framing of a particular issue; the focus of our attention is on what is in the picture…read more
Honour Killing – Dr. Khalid Sohail
Honour killings are one of the most psychologically complex, sociologically complicated, morally distressing and legally challenging violent crimes against humanity. There are killings and there are honour killings…read more
Concept of Justice
MOST of the recent western legal concepts such as supremacy of law, equality before law, judicial independence and impartiality, juristic personality, non-retroactivity, legal representation, presumption of innocence, etc., were never alien to Islam…read more
Do Disaster Shake Our Belief?
Disasters are more agonizing, heart-wrenching and chilling when you know the land and its people. They evoke memories of the past; deep-seated recollections of one’s early, and formative, years in life. Pakistan is my native land. The tremor that shook its mountains has thrown the country into a state of shock and mourning…read more
Tolerance and Purity of Heart
We hear much about tolerance. All of us who deem ourselves “good” people, also presume ourselves to be tolerant. Scratch a little below the surface, however, and we may find ourselves not quite as tolerant as we imagined. Perhaps our version of tolerance is to outwardly say nothing…read more
Muslim’s Reflection on Life, Death & the Burial rites
Death is a very painful and an emotional time, yet one that may be filled with hope and mercy. Muslims believe that death is a departure from the life of this world, a never ending tapestry of existence. Rather, eternal life is to come, and we pray for Allah’s mercy to be with the departed, in hopes that they may find peace and happiness in the life to come…read more
First Mosque Our Canadian Heritage
This May 2012, as Muslims mark the twentieth anniversary of the induction of Al-Rashid mosque in Fort Edmonton Park, the country’s largest living history museum, the spotlight will be on the leadership role of Muslim women in this historic event…read more
Pluralism in Islam
Islam stresses on the unity of humanity and recognises human diversity and gives valuable principles to deal with ethnic, racial and religious differences in society…read more