CMAA News and Resources

CMAA calls on the government of Canada, fellow Muslims and our fellow Canadians...

We believe in and support respectful dialogue, including the National Respectful Dialogue Initiative by Canada’s law community. But the space for respectful dialogue has diminished greatly since October 7. Our prayer and demand is to keep this space open for all Canadians and to uphold and enforce the constitutional guarantees that ensure rights of all communities and faiths.

The methodical use of horrific sexual violence against civilians was a central component of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7. On March 3, seven brave Muslim leaders and speakers addressed the implications of this phenomenon and the vulnerability of Western liberal democracies to the dangers of Islamist extremism. The remarkable panel of Muslim experts provided a...

On March 3, 2024, in Toronto, the Canada-based Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism (CMAA) issued an Open Letter to Canadian Parliamentarians and a Call to Action. The silence, glorification, and obfuscation of the October 7 atrocities must be publicly challenged. As members and international affiliates of CMAA, we intend to do so in every democratic arena.

If you are ignorant of the facts - if you have any doubt - the Special Report from the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel is a MUST READ, documenting sexual crimes on and after October 7, 2023 following antisemitic dehumanization. *Be forewarned, the details are horrifying*

Investigation: The antisemitism that Oct. 7 unleashed in Canada

Later this month Judge Salam will preside over next steps in the separate ICJ case generated by South Africa’s spurious allegations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Both ICJ cases threaten to undermine the ability of Israel, the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to defend themselves against terrorism.

Hamas’s international financial web is now “immune from Israeli shells”, experts believe – meaning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will struggle to achieve his goal of destroying the militant group. Stephen Reimer, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rus) specialising in financial crime, told i that “the total destruction of Hamas” would not come to...

Under the P.A.'s "pay for slay" policy, Ramallah disburses monthly salaries to terrorists and their families. Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israeli communities near Gaza, the P.A. has added thousands of Palestinians to its list of people who qualify to receive terror stipends, an Israeli watchdog reported last month. P.A. officials announced that 3,550 terrorists imprisoned in Israel will...

Thus, I may have been among a handful of people not surprised by the feminist silence on Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom-on-steroids. It does not ease my sorrow that so many others, including the worldwide media and professoriate, human rights groups, and the United Nations, are also actively engaging in Oct. 7 denialism, as well as in relentless and vicious blood libels against the Jewish state, every...