News Releases & Statements
NCCM WELCOMES FEDERATION OF CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES DECISION TO ADOPT RESOLUTION TO TACKLE ISLAMOPHOBIA
(Wednesday, October 5th 2022)
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) welcomes the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) decision to adopt NCCM recommendations to address Islamophobia across our country. The FCM brings together more than 2,000 cities and communities from coast to coast to coast, representing 90 percent of Canadians across all provinces and territories.
Titled “Measures to Tackle Islamophobia,” the resolution effectively encourages member municipalities to treat NCCM’s recommendations as the gold standard when it comes ...
NCCM, UMO-OG AND OMYA CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN AFTERMATH OF VICIOUS BEATING OF MUSLIM STUDENT
(Tuesday, October 4th 2022)
OTTAWA—On September 8th, 2022, a 15-year-old orphaned Syrian Canadian boy, who arrived in Canada as a refugee and recently moved into Ottawa, was brutally attacked near a school in the city during lunch time. A video of the attack circulated online, clearly showing a group of young men robbing the Syrian boy while viciously punching and kicking him.
Before jumping on him, the attackers asked the young boy where he is from and whether he is an Arab and/or a Muslim. This was an Islamophobic attack.
NCCM, the Ottawa Muslim ...
NCCM LAUNCHES POLICY GUIDE AHEAD OF OCT 3 QUEBEC ELECTION
(Montréal - September 22, 2022)
Today, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) launched its 2022 Quebec Elections Policy Guide ahead of the October 3rd provincial elections in Quebec. The guide provides an overview of policy issues and recommendations related to Islamophobia and racism aimed at Quebec Muslim communities.
This election will be one of the most important elections with tremendous implications for the Muslim community in the province.
This is why NCCM has published a comprehensive and detailed guide to help voters to engage ...
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER TAWAKKOL KARMAN HEADLINING FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONFERENCE IN OTTAWA
(Ottawa - September 20, 2022)
At a time of great global upheaval, where the international order is under increasing strain, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, ISNA Canada, and Islamic Relief Canada are hosting a major foreign affairs policy conference this Sunday to be headlined by Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman.
The day-long “Muslim Voices in Foreign Policy” conference on September 25th is set to be an agenda setting event as the Parliamentary Session begins.
Keynote speakers scheduled to speak include:
Nobel Peace Prize ...
MINISTER REMOVES INCOMING ALBERTA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CHIEF
(Edmonton - September 16, 2022)
We are thankful that Minister Tyler Shandro has decided to remove Mr. Collin May as the next Alberta Human Rights Commission Chief.
Minister Shandro’s swift and decisive move answers the call of dozens of Muslim community groups and leaders across Alberta.
Mr. May’s statements in a 2009 book review recycled old stereotypes of Islam as innately militaristic and incapable of peaceful coexistence. After Mr. May stated that he wished to engage members of the Muslim community, multiple Muslim community leaders then ...
MINISTER SHANDRO ASKS INCOMING CHIEF OF ALBERTA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO RESIGN
(Edmonton - September 13th, 2022)
Yesterday Alberta's Minister of Justice and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro made the right decision in asking Mr. Collin May to resign as the incoming Chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
While we would have preferred that this situation never arose in the first place, we appreciate the ongoing dialogue with Minister Shandro’s office and his decisive decision making that led to this result after over two dozen leading Muslim organizations called yesterday for Mr. May to resign.
In a 2009 book review Mr. May cited ...
OVER TWO DOZEN OF ALBERTA’S LEADING MOSQUES AND MUSLIM ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIR OF THE ALBERTA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
(Edmonton - September 12, 2022)
Today, NCCM and over two dozen of Alberta’s leading Muslim organizations are asking for the resignation of Mr. Collin May as the Chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission effective immediately.
It was revealed recently that Mr. May wrote a book review in 2009 that many read as casting Islam as an intrinsically violent religion incapable of peaceful coexistence. He cited in his review that: “Islam is not a peaceful religion misused by radicals. Rather, it is one of the most militaristic religions known to man.”
Alb...
TWO YEARS SINCE IMO ATTACK, THE FIGHT AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY CONTINUES
(Toronto - September 12, 2022)
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) commemorates two years since the devastating murder that took the earthly life of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis, a beloved and dedicated volunteer caretaker at Toronto’s International Muslim Organization (IMO) mosque.
Mohamed-Aslim Zafis had spent the summer of 2020 on the front lines of the Covid-19 community response, handing out food to the needy. The primary suspect in his murder appeared to have ties to the neo-Nazi and Islamophobic white supremacist group O9A.
In the aftermath ...
NCCM AND WADDELL PHILLIPS APPEAL DECISION ON CSIS EMPLOYEE DISCRIMINATION CASE
(Toronto - September 8, 2022)
Lawyers from the National Council of Canadian Muslims and Waddell Phillips representing former CSIS employee, Sameer Ebadi, filed their appeal on a civil claim in court regarding systemic and continuous Islamophobia and racism by CSIS towards Mr. Ebadi. NCCM and Waddel Phillips will be appealing this decision to the Federal Court of Appeal.
The Federal Court ruled this summer that it lacked the jurisdiction to hear Mr. Sameer Ebadi’s complaints and that he, a former CSIS employee of 20 years, should go through the agency’s ...
CROWN PROSECUTION AND EDMONTON POLICE SERVICE’S INADEQUATE RESPONSE TO ISLAMOPHOBIC ATTACK RAISES SERIOUS CONCERNS
(Edmonton - July 20, 2022)
NCCM is deeply concerned about the Crown prosecution and Edmonton Police Service’s problematic response to an attack last January on a Muslim family and their vehicle outside of a mosque in the city.
On New Year's Day, a man walked up to the family's vehicle several times in a mosque parking lot, spat on the car window, hurled verbal Islamophobic abuse at the Black Muslim woman (who wears a niqab or face veil) who was driving the car, punched the car window (causing damage), threw a pot at the vehicle, threatened the family with a ...