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Iraqi Canadian launches anti-terrorism petition By BRIAN HENRY Special to The CJN An Arab Canadian has helped launch a petition calling on the United Nations to prosecute Muslim clerics who incite terrorism through fatwas. Jawad Hashim of Vancouver, formerly Iraq’s minister of planning, together with Lafif Lakhdar, a Tunisian intellectual, and Dr. Shakir al-Nabulsi, a Jordanian writer, posted the petition on the liberal Muslim website Middle East Transparent and are calling on fellow Muslims to sign it. Titled “Letter from liberal Arabs and Muslims,” the petition’s language is blunt. It refers to “fatwas issued by some psychotic… dogmatic Muslims encouraging...

CBC reporter accused of bias against Israel By PAUL LUNGEN Staff Reporter Two Jewish organizations that monitor the media are taking CBC News to task for violating its own guidelines by allowing its Washington, D.C., correspondent to air personal views that they say are biased against Israel. The Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) and HonestReporting Canada say CBC reporter Neil Macdonald has expressed personal views in several recent reports and commentaries, in contravention of the CBC’s own guidelines that restrict editorializing by news correspondents. Invariably, Macdonald’s commentaries favour the Palestinians and come down hard on Israel, say spokespeople for the groups. “Given...

Anti-Semitism in Canada: Why now? By BRIAN HENRY Canadian Jewish News, April 29, 2004 Across the country, the firebombing of a Jewish day school in Montreal appalled Canadians. Why did it happen? Why now? I see four root causes. First, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 radicalized anti-American and anti-Jewish sentiment in Canada and around the world. Much of the far left has always considered America and Israel as a single enemy and the primary source of evil in world affairs. While Sept. 11 demonstrated to most people that there are much nastier people around, the far left wasn’t prepared...