IMAM DR. ZIJAD DELIC SHARES HIS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE AND PRAYER
TO MY CHRISTIAN SISTERS AND BROTHERS
Imam Dr. Zijad Delic

Peace be with you all;
God Almighty in the Qur’an, in the Chapter Ali ‘Imran (the family of Imran), states: “(And remember!) When the angels said: “O Mary! Behold, God gives you the glad tidings of a son through a word from Him; his name shall be the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, honoured in this world and in the next, and of those who are granted nearness to Lord.” ) 3:45)
In the spirit …

Today there are words frequently used like winning, greatness, defeating, nuclear power
They have become popular words, words that have become populist words
Creating a culture in which only the strong and powerful are victorious
A world in which there can only be a few winners and the rest are losers
Do lives matter? Black lives, immigrant lives, refugee lives, lives of poverty, homeless lives.
All calling for respect, all calling for compassion, all calling to be sisters and brothers
To find in our human nature the impulse to transcend our egos and our selfishness
To dethrone …

BILL 62 NIQAB (FAITH) IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Imam Dr. Ziyad Delic

Is Bill 62 a toxic discourse? It makes the Muslim community think one more time about the Niqab and Niqabi women’s place in Quebec/Canada from a Canadian human rights perspective and the freedom of religion in Canada.
The Supreme Court ruled that freedom of religion is not dependent on religious rulings or dogma and freedom protects all sincerely held religious beliefs and practices regardless of whether they are sanctioned in jurisprudence or not. The3 exception is when there are security concerns.
The …

MY GOD! BILL 62 OPENS OLD DOORS

Father John Walsh
The old doers that are open and people ae walking through are the doors of scepticism, intolerance, the relativism of diversity, and the door that leads to awkwardness. The use of the Niqab leads many non-Muslims to be sceptical about the arguments used by Muslims to justify the wearing of Niqab by Muslim women. The scepticism arises because the Niqab is not essential to the faith of Islam and is optional for Muslim to wear or not wear. Those who decide to …

THE HAPPIEST DAY
Rabbi Michael Whitman

Dear John,
Your presence at Kol Nidre is a presence of love, and proof of the possibility of reconciliation after even the deepest rupture.
The historical precedent for Yom Kippur, according to the Bible, is the day Moses returned from the top of Mt. Sinai with the second set of stone tablets, upon which were engraved the Ten Commandments – a replacement for the tablets Moses smashed in the aftermath of our terrible sin of the Golden Calf.
Moses’ appearance with the new tablets on the tenth day of …