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Canada School Board Cancels Event with Yazidi Nobel Laureate, Former ISIS Sex Slave over ‘Islamophobia’ Fears
Breitbart ^ | 11/29/21 | Joshua Klein

Posted on 12/01/2021 7:53:27 PM PST by marshmallow

A Canadian school board recently caused an uproar after it withdrew support for an event featuring Yazidi activist, former Islamic State (ISIS) sex slave, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad out of concern it could foster “Islamophobia” and “offend” Muslim students.

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) decided to pull a book club event scheduled for February after it planned to feature a discussion around 28-year-old Yazidi activist and Nobel-prize winner Nadia Murad’s memoir, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, which describes her frightening capture and enslavement by ISIS terrorists in 2014 as well as her daring escape.

The autobiographical work also details her family’s execution as well the repeated rape and torture she endured as she was exchanged among ISIS militants.

The reason for the cancellation, according to the board, was that Murad’s book could “promote Islamophobia” and “offend” Muslim students.

The book club at which Murad was to be featured was founded by entrepreneur Tanya Lee in 2017 and invites teenage girls from various secondary schools to discuss books with their female authors.

After being informed of Murad’s cancellation, Lee, who herself suffered sexual and physical abuse as a child, sent the board’s superintendent Helen Fisher information about ISIS gathered from CNN and the BBC.

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1 posted on 12/01/2021 7:53:27 PM PST by marshmallow
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2 posted on 12/01/2021 8:02:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: marshmallow

So the school board recognizes that all muslims do support the likes of ISIS?
Because if they didn’t there would be no cause to be offended.


3 posted on 12/01/2021 8:03:47 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: marshmallow

I guess they just can’t let the truth about islam see the light of day.


4 posted on 12/01/2021 8:21:16 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: marshmallow

Anyone here afraid of Islam? A phobia is an anxiety disorder, persistent excessive fear.


5 posted on 12/01/2021 8:25:23 PM PST by bigbob
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To: marshmallow

Canada is full of homosexual and weak men. There is no other explanation.


6 posted on 12/01/2021 9:25:00 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: marshmallow

Islamophobia bad, Caucasiophobia good.


7 posted on 12/02/2021 1:50:03 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

+10!


8 posted on 12/02/2021 4:13:58 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: marshmallow

Typical Leftist policy: When the truth offends Muslims, hide the truth, When the anything offends Christians, proclaim it.


9 posted on 12/02/2021 5:07:32 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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