Monia Mazigh

Redress is overdue for targets of Canada's no-fly list

rabble staff — Fri, 27 May 2016 13:59:32 +0000

Friday, May 27, 2016

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It has now been five months since we started hearing and reading about Canadian kids affected by additional security screening measures when they try to board a plane, and unfortunately, the situation hasn't improved much since.

It has now been five months since we started hearing about Canadian kids affected by the Canadian version of the no-fly list and unfortunately, the situation hasn't improved much since.

After years of injustice, Canada should bring Hassan Diab home

rabble staff — Fri, 20 May 2016 02:17:42 +0000

Friday, May 20, 2016

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This week, a French judge decided to order the release of Hassan Diab while an investigation into his case continues. It is both ironic and embarrassing to see a French judge decide to do what a Canadian judge should have done many years ago: order Hassan Diab a free man!

This week, a French judge ordered the release of Hassan Diab from jail while an investigation into his case continues. Canada should follow suit and give Diab due process.

The name has changed but racial profiling remains under Liberal government

rabble staff — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:14 +0000

Friday, May 13, 2016

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Amid several new programs targeting the middle class and infrastructure funds, the Liberal government's first budget also dedicated some money to tackling what they called "counter-radicalization." These tasks will be conducted by the Co-ordinator of the Office of Community Outreach and Counter-Radicalization. For this, the office will receive $3 million this year and up to $10 million in coming years.

Rather than dedicating new money to an office for counter-radicalization, the Liberal government should be developing alternatives for disaffected youth.

Four ways to prove Canada is serious about ending torture

rabble staff — Fri, 06 May 2016 13:06:56 +0000

Friday, May 6, 2016

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Is Canada ready to distance itself from torture, forcefully denounce it, and prosecute those who practice it? Here are four issues that serve as a litmus test for genuine change.

Questions surround timing of terrorism charges in Waterloo case

rabble staff — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 02:36:48 +0000

Friday, April 29, 2016

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Immediately after the Brussels attacks, a Waterloo engineering student was arrested by the RCMP. It's not the first time the security establishment has taken advantage of a climate of fear.

The federal government is selective with its protection of privacy

rabble staff — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:13:16 +0000

Friday, April 22, 2016

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It is now almost a pattern: every time we, as a human rights organization or activist, write to government agencies inquiring about cases of Canadians detained abroad or of Canadians subject to abuse or possible discrimination, the governmental response will certainly somehow contain the issue of "privacy."

"Privacy concerns" have been used as a powerful pretext for inaction or silence and this should be challenged and denounced.

"Privacy concerns" have been used by the Canadian government as a powerful pretext for inaction or silence and this should be challenged and denounced.

From Enron to the Panama Papers: How many financial scandals will it take to change the rules?

rabble staff — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:46:36 +0000

Friday, April 15, 2016

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Financial opacity isn't just a disease attacking Russia, China or the Gulf monarchies; it is a global reality. As shown by the Panama Papers leak, even Canada isn't immune from this virus.

Canadians detained abroad need more than 'responsible conviction'

rabble staff — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:57:03 +0000

Friday, April 8, 2016

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"Responsible conviction" is the guiding principle Stéphane Dion has proposed for extending help to Canadians detained abroad. What's missing are concrete commitments in Canadian foreign policy.

After Brussels: How should Muslims respond to terrorist attacks?

rabble staff — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:26:22 +0000

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

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After the horrible news of the attacks in Brussels and the terrible loss of life, comes the interminable list of Muslim groups denouncing terrorism, followed by the interminable list of groups and pseudo-experts putting Muslims on the defensive, blaming them for the evil of all evils.

When reacting to terrorist attacks like those in Brussels, for Muslims living in the West, the position is almost impossible.

Our friends the Gulf sheikhs and the case of Salim Alaradi

rabble staff — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:01:45 +0000

Friday, March 18, 2016

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In 2014, Canadian citizen Salim Alaradi was arrested by Emirati state security in Dubai and charged by the U.A.E. with supporting terrorism. Why isn't Canada demanding justice?

Are you on the terrorism blacklist? Maybe, but you can't do anything about it.

rabble staff — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:22:53 +0000

Friday, February 12, 2016

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Last week, a Vice News investigation revealed that a terrorism blacklist database, known as World-Check and founded in 1999, contains 2.7 million entries, many of them Muslim individuals and organizations.

Last week, a private terrorism blacklist called World-Check was brought to light, raising questions about who is being targeted in its database, and why.

Will the Canadian government shed light on the no-fly list?

rabble staff — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:46:12 +0000

Friday, January 8, 2016

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It is a shame that a number of Canadian toddlers and young children are being humiliated at the airport in the name of extra security checks and delayed in boarding their plane with their parents. How as a society have we reached this level of complacency, accepting that such actions are "normal" under the pretext of living in security?

The recent promise by Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to open an investigation into the case of six-year-old Syed Adam Ahmed, whose name appears on the no-fly list, isn't enough. Here's why.

Why is France emulating the U.S.?

rabble staff — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:33:07 +0000

Friday, November 20, 2015

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Everybody seems to speak French this week, love France and sympathize with the French. "Empathy" is now a French word. Even the British, long-time enemies of the French people, forgot about their jealousy, their rivalry in colonizing the world, their British superiority complex, and they did the undoable: on Monday The Guardian ran a long editorial en français!

Instead of making declarations of war, France needs to remember the Lafontaine fable about the ox and the frog, and re-examine its blind new alignment with American imperialism.

From Marois to Harper, niqab debate plays with xenophobic fire

rabble staff — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:29:33 +0000

Friday, October 16, 2015

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The election is coming to an end. All the way, I resisted the urge to write about the niqab. Why? I didn't want to create more controversy and stir the already ugly pot simmering in many people's minds. But then, it became stronger than me. My brain isn't as disciplined as my fingers so I found myself typing out thoughts about the niqab.

When we were children, we were told that if we played with matches, we risked being burned. Playing with the fire of Islamophobia, Stephen Harper would do well to heed that warning.

History of migration has lessons for present-day refugee crisis

rabble staff — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:27:54 +0000

Friday, September 11, 2015

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Of course, my plan this week was to write a column about the meanings of the announcement made by the RCMP to lay criminal charges against George Salloum, one of the torturers of my husband, Maher Arar.

Beyond the symbolism of this unprecedented action taken by the RCMP -- to charge someone overseas who tortured and participated in the harming of a Canadian citizen -- there is always something deeply personal about this.

To all the voices opposing the arrival of refugees, labelling them terrorist threats or job-stealers -- think twice about what you are saying. Remember what happened in the history of humanity.