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Canadian school CANCELS event with ISIS survivor Nadia Murad because her harrowing description of torture and rape 'would be offensive to Muslims and foster Islamophobia'
2021-11-27
  • The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is not allowing its students to attend a book club meeting featuring author Nadia Murad
    ...Yezidi activist and Nobel laureate...
  • Murad's book details how she escaped the Islamic State, where she was ripped from her home and sold into sexual slavery aged just 14 years old

  • The superintendent Helen Fisher said Muslim students would be offended and the book 'promotes Islamophobia'
    Truth or falsity has nothing to do with it, only Moslem feelz.
  • Book club founder and TDSB parent Tanya Lee said the book 'has nothing to do with ordinary Muslims. (TDSB) should be aware of the difference'

  • The Board later issued an apology but still won't let the students attend the event
In her book, Murad talks about how she was raped and tortured before finding her way to a refugee camp in Durhok, in northern Iraq, and then to Germany where she now lives.
Related:
Nadia Murad: 2021-05-12 Nobel Winner Demands Justice after UN Finds 'Genocide' against Yazidis
Nadia Murad: 2020-09-05 Yezidi children held by ISIS return from Turkey with KRG delegation
Nadia Murad: 2020-06-16 Iraq denounces airspace penetration by Turkish aircraft targeting refugee camp near Makhmur and Sinjar
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  To paraphrase, some people need offending.
Posted by: KBK   2021-11-27 23:50  

#9  "'Fat, greasy, his belly distended
By sacrifice, fiercely defended,
Lolled A---- the Splendid
As every knee bended...'
Efendi, please don't be offended!"
"Offended? A likeness most candid!
Yes, rave of my quarrels!
Here, have all my laurels!"
And I'm from that p--- descended.
Posted by: Lionel Elmumble1080   2021-11-27 23:45  

#8  Watched In the Name of Confucius doc [Falun gonnnnng] the other day. Haven't had a chance to check the numbers, but it looked very much as if a Canadian citizen or two may have succeeded in infiltrating BC schools.
Posted by: Lionel Elmumble1080   2021-11-27 22:39  

#7  Canadaâ„¢
Posted by: Frank G   2021-11-27 22:20  

#6  TheToronto District School Board (TDSB) is not allowing its students to attend a book club meeting

??
WTF is this "not allowing"?
What right does any government agency have to enjoin or forbid free assembly by citizens?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-27 22:15  

#5  This kind of crap is jusy plain embarrassing.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2021-11-27 21:35  

#4  Can't have them tell the truth and ruin the narrative!!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-11-27 20:23  

#3  ..or more basically, authoritarians and totalitarians.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-11-27 17:12  

#2  Next: Events with Holocaust survivors in schools canceled because their harrowing descriptions would be offensive to young Nazis.
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-11-27 12:25  

#1  Streisand Effect kicks in.6
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2021-11-27 11:14  

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