Peaceful Local Reaction to International Terrorist Attack
On Friday March 18, 49 people were killed in a mass shooting at two mosques in the City of Christchurch, New Zealand. The 28-year-old shooter was charged with murder after …
Terrorism
Editorial: Let’s quit it with the T-word
What a summer. Terrorism in Britain, a terrorist getting a government settlement, and white terrorists south of the border. Two years ago it felt like conversations between we the whites …
Let’s fight terror with community, not surveillance
Six Canadians were slain Sunday January 29th. These individuals were Canadians of the Muslim faith, who were simply in their mosque, their house of worship, peacefully praying. This act is …
Editorial: art as an act of defiance
Canada woke up on Monday morning to be flooded by devastating news. As the world is now aware, six innocent men lost their lives in an act of terror on …
WTF: war, terrorism and fear
It’s all senseless isn’t it? Or maybe it just doesn’t make any sense. Is that the same? Ah, I don’t really care. But people have been killed, rather than died. …
Editorial: Western disparity towards eastern terrorism and grief
Terrorism is a topic that I have visited many times in Arthur. Terrorism is also something that revisits me, over and over, in the form of breaking news stories that …
The Paris attack: how do we respond?
There seems to have been great difficulty in writing articles after and about the massacres in France. ‘Trying to write about this is difficult’, so the standard introduction goes. On …
Horses to the slaughter : the frontless war
A tragic lesson was learned when the mounted soldiers and their horses rode into the war-torn front, with the barbed-wire trenches and the clouds of poisonous gas that The Great …
Paris: what the rest of the world is saying
As all of you know, November 13, 2015 is now home to a scar in French history. In light of the massacre that occurred in Paris Bataclan Concert Hall by …
“I really thought it was going to burn down to ashes”
Late in the evening on Saturday November 14, the Peterborough Masjid Al-Salaam was set on fire. The ongoing police investigation claimed that the fire was set deliberately and the timing …