Action Alerts


ACTION ALERT: SIGN THIS LETTER CALLING ON CANADA TO DENOUNCE THE BANNING AND RAIDING OF PROMINENT PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

Last year, the Israeli government declared six Palestinian civil society groups supported by the international community as terrorist organizations, prompting international outcry.  The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which partners with the NGOs, echoed criticisms raised around the world that the designations listed “extremely vague or irrelevant reasons, including entirely peaceful and legitimate activities”.  Our allies did not keep silent. Numerous elected officials in the United States and in Europe – too numerous to ...

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Letter to the Prime Minister Regarding Human Rights Violations in Silwan

Demolitions have begun at Silwan by Israeli-state authorities even as numerous independent international agencies have called for forced evictions to end. Silwan is a neighborhood in east Jerusalem adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the most sacred places to Muslims internationally. It is estimated that 60% of the 1,500 Palestinian residents of Silwan in East Jerusalem who are about to be displaced by Israel are children. The demolition of the neighbourhood of Silwan is in gross violation of international law. Send a letter today at www.nccm.ca/silwan asking ...

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NCCM RECOMMENDATIONS: NATIONAL ACTION SUMMIT ON ISLAMOPHOBIA

Le français suit. NCCM Recommendations: National Summit on Islamophobia More Muslims have been killed in targeted hate-attacks in Canada than any other G-7 country in the past 5 years because of Islamophobia. That fact sunk in outside the London Muslim Mosque on June 8 of this year, when thousands of Londoners gathered in the aftermath of the terror attack that took the lives of four members of the Canadian Muslim community in an unthinkable act of Islamophobic violence. The thousands that gathered that day were there to show their solidarity, pray, and stand ...

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Vigil’s Being Held Across Canada for the London Muslim Community

Communities across Canada are organizing vigils to commemorate the victims and survivor of the Islamophobic London terror attack. Below are some of the walks/vigils listed by province. We will update this list with any additional vigils that we are aware of. Note: These vigils are not organized or sponsored by NCCM. Please contact the listed organizers for any inquiries. Alberta: Edmonton:   Time/ Date: Sunday, June 5th 2022, 3pm – Vigil Honouring Our London Family, Location: Alberta Legislature (front steps), 10800 97 Ave Calgary Time/Date: ...

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Sign this Petition to Tell the Federal Government to Stand Against White Supremacist Groups

#DontLookAway Take Action now! Tell the Federal Government to stand against white supremacist and neo-nazi groups. Dear Prime Minister Trudeau: Muslim communities are still reeling from the devastating terrorist attack in Quebec in January 29, 2017, which claimed the lives of six Muslim men worshiping in their mosque and gravely injured many others. It was an unprecedented attack that left a Canadian place of worship – a sacred sanctuary – a scene of unimaginable carnage. Now, as a member of the Canadian community, Mohamed-Aslim Zafis, was ruthlessly ...

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Bill 21 Petition

Français: https://cnmc.ca/loi21/ SAY NO TO BILL 21 We at the National Council of Canadian Muslims are standing up against Bill 21 and we need your support. Let’s show the Government of Canada that we will not stand for this discriminatory law. Bill 21 is the law in Quebec, Canada that bans individuals wearing religious symbols from working in certain public sector positions. This is a law that doesn’t just affect Muslims. It affects those wearing a kippah, a turban, a crucifix and of course those that wear hijab. This means our sisters, daughters, ...

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Sign the petition to help bring Hassan Diab home

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is calling on supporters and fellow Canadians to sign the following petition calling on the Government of Canada to work towards the immediate granting of bail to Hassan Diab and securing his urgent return to his family and home in Canada. Diab has been in French custody since 2014. Who is Hassan Diab? Hassan Diab is a Canadian of Lebanese origin, who was a sociology professor at the University of Ottawa. In 2008, Diab was arrested by the RCMP in relation to the Copernic St. Synagogue bombing in Paris in ...

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Have your say on National Security

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is calling on supporters and fellow Canadians to participate in the federal government’s online consultations on national security. The NCCM has made frequent submissions on national security issues, including providing analysis and commentary regarding the much critiqued Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, commonly known as Bill-C51. Meeting with the Ministers On October 19, 2016, the NCCM presented the community impact of harmful legislation in a meeting held with federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Justice ...

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