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WATCH: Currying Favour: The Desi Vote (Stephen Harper and 'ethnic' voters)

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From Marois to Harper, niqab debate plays with xenophobic fire | Oct 16 2015 | Monia Mazigh | 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.
Who should Arabs and Muslims vote for this election? | Oct 16 2015 | Ehab Lotayef | The NDP's response, was clear, direct and straight forward. It addressed most of the issues we raised with clear commitments of action.
A most colonial strategy: Saving Muslim women, demonizing Muslim men | Oct 14 2015 | Azeezah Kanji | The Harper government's niqab-stripping mania bears disturbing resemblance to the officially imperial past.
Does LIP Really Respects Immigrants and Do What Actually Needed to be Done for Immigrants? | Oct 11 2015 | This article reveals how the Guelph-Wellington Local Immigration Partnership exploit on the immigrants and immigrants' Issues
WATCH: Currying Favour: The Desi Vote (Stephen Harper and 'ethnic' voters) | Oct 10 2015 | rabble staff | Watch this new federal election PSA by director Sheetal Rawal.
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Conservatives still oblivious to issues important to Muslim women | Oct 9 2015 | Aaliya Khan | At a recent debate hosted by the Canadian Council for Muslim Women, the Conservative party showed, yet again, their complete disconnect with women and the Muslim community.
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Activists protest 'barbaric cultural practices' hotline at Kellie Leitch's office | Oct 9 2015 | Julie Devaney | On Thursday Oct. 8, women's groups and their supporters gathered outside Minister of the Status of Women Kellie Leitch's office to protest the "barbaric cultural practices" hotline.
Syrian refugees cross from Hungary into Austria on their way to Germany in Septe
Racism in the Canadian election: Suppressing our better angels | Oct 9 2015 | Dennis Gruending | The main issue in Canada's election was to be the economy but the Conservatives are deliberately targeting Muslims.
The Jewish establishment's silence on Conservative fearmongering is appalling | Oct 8 2015 | Larry Haiven | Surely we have learned that a person's clothing is a personal choice and a basic human right, whether they are influenced by religious or ethnic custom or not. Haven't we?
Not Rex: On the barbarian foothold in Canada | Oct 7 2015 | Humberto DaSilva | The niqab discussion has risen to absurd levels. Not Rex sheds some perspective.
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Sophie Harkat's husband Mohamed is being deported. Here's what she has to say. | Oct 7 2015 | Sophie Harkat | Mohamed Harkat was arrested under a security certificate on December 10, 2002. After 13 years of pure hell, Harkat received his deportation papers in the middle of the 2015 federal election campaign.
The niqab debate reminds us why we have a Charter | Oct 2 2015 | Scott Vrooman | Rights are to public opinion what Rob Ford's behaviour is to public opinion: irrelevant.

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