In our May edition we bring together different facets of Islamophobia that are propped up by Canadian laws and foreign policy:

We hear from Adil Charkaoui and Sophie Harkat -- who spoke at a panel hosted by QPIRG-McGill and the Collectif Canadien Anti-Islamophobie this spring -- about Canada's draconian security certificate regime. Adil a été emprisonné de 2003 jusqu’à 2005 et par la suite vivait sous conditions jusqu'à ce qu'il gagne son procès à la Cour Supreme en 2009; il nous raconte son expérience et la lutte qui a mener à l’invalidation de son certificat de sécurité. Sophie is the wife of Mohamed Harkat, who was imprisoned from 2002 until 2006 and remains under strict conditions of house arrest and faces deportation to torture.

We also play audio from #RememberJan29 co-organizer Syed Hussan. Hussan speaks to the normalization of Islamophobia through the Québec mosque shooting and the wide scale targeting and killings of Muslims in the Middle East, backed and carried out by Canadian militarism.

Photo courtesy of Homes not Bombs.