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From EzraLevant.com

December 28, 2007

Canadian Human Rights Commission,
National Office
344 Slater Street, 8th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1E1

Dear sirs,

Re: Human Rights voilation by Syed Badi-uddin Soharwardy, National President of the
Islamic Supreme Council of Canada ( ISCC) , Muslim Against Terrorism ( MAT) and
Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre Management Committee

We as women and members of the visible minority are writing to you about unfair and unequal treatment given to us at a general meeting convened by the Al-Madinah Management Committee that was chaired by Syed Badi-uddin Soharwardy, National President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), Muslim Against Terrorism (MAT), This meeting was held as an open house on Sunday, November 11, 2007 between 3-5 pm at Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre, 5700 Falsebridge Drive NE, Calgary, Alberta to discuss certain serious allegations, community issues and future plans .

We were discriminated as women and were treated poorly, differently, negatively and adversely by the Directors and Officers of Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre, Islam Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), Muslim Against Terrorism (MAT), Al-Madinah Dar-Ul-Aloom Ltd and Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Assembly. In this meeting we were treated diferently from men in the following manner:
Abusive language uttered towards us;
Not permitted to ask any questions;
Danied participation as equal members of the Muslim community;
Physically and verbally threatened; made to sit in the back of the hall;
Accused of disrupting and subotaging the proceedings;
Forced to vacate the pemises;
Followed-up by obscene and threatening phone calls and letters in the mail.

To enable you to see the proceedings of this meeting , please see enclosed DVD video of the meeting at the open house.
Overall, there was a lack of respect for the women attending the meeting through intimidation, harassment and abusive behaviour.

You are kindly requested to investigate and take immediate action to inform Syed Badi-uddin Soharwardy, National President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), Muslim Against Terrorism (MAT), and Al-Madinah Management Committee to halt this descriminatory treatment towards women and to issue a Public apology for defaming and insulting us.

Yours Sincerely,

------------------ ------------ ----------------------------- ---------------------------------
MRS. QASIRA SHAHEEN
MRS. ROBINA BUTT
MRS. SHUGUFTA IFTIKHAR
Calgary, AB

Encls: As stated above
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Talk about living in glass houses. This guy must be nuts.
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Posted: 01/ 15/ 08 5:25 pm Post subject:

Well if you think about the whole of the Muslim religion treats women as second class. Wonder if the HRC will just ignore this.

Posted: 01/ 15/ 08 5:33 pm Post subject:

LOL I can't wait to see the video of them strong arming defenseless women.

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Posted: 01/ 15/ 08 11:07 pm Post subject:

http://ezralevant.com/2008/01/inside-syed-soharwardys-mosque.html

Inside Syed Soharwardy's mosque
By Ezra Levant on January 15, 2008 9:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (21) | Trackback (1)

As I've written before, there's an incongruity to rough men like Mohamed Elmasry and Syed Soharwardy filing human rights complaints. Elmasry has publicly declared that any adult Jew in Israel is a legitimate target for a terrorist attack. When he's not egging on violence, though, his delicate sensibilities can be hurt by Maclean's magazine. Hey, terror advocates have feelings, too!

Syed Soharwardy, one of the complainants in my case, is a proponent of sharia law -- the legal system that governs Saudi Arabia, where rape victims get sentenced to the lash for their "immodesty". Soharwardy is made of stern stuff when he's telling Saudi -- and Canadian women -- their "proper" place. But he, too, has his soft side. In his case, our publication of some cartoons turned that stern task-master into a river of tears.

But that's how George Orwell said it would be; in his book 1984, he wrote of a war department called the Ministry of Peace, and a propaganda department called the Ministry of Truth. So why is it surprising that Alberta's "Human Rights Commission" actually tramples human rights like free speech, and that bigots like Elmasry and Soharwardy are not the subjects of its investigations, but rather the originators of them?

Well, in the case of Soharwardy, it appears that he himself is the subject of a human rights complaint -- for discrimination against women. There's a shocker. It was filed with the Edmonton and Ottawa offices of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Some women in his mosque allege that:

We were discriminated as women and were treated poorly, differently, negatively and adversely by the Directors and Officers of Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre, Islam Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), Muslim Against Terrorism (MAT), Al-Madinah Dar-Ul-Aloom Ltd and Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Assembly. In this meeting we were treated diferently from men in the following manner:

· Abusive language uttered towards us;

· Not permitted to ask any questions;

· Danied participation as equal members of the Muslim community;

· Physically and verbally threatened; made to sit in the back of the hall;

· Accused of disrupting and subotaging the proceedings;

· Forced to vacate the pemises;

Followed-up by obscene and threatening phone calls and letters in the mail.

I've asked a dissident member of Soharwardy's mosque for a copy of the DVD of that meeting, referred to in the complaint. I'll post some excerpts from it when I get it.

Being a sharia sexist is not the only complaint against Soharwardy; some of his same dissidents have complained to the police about his financial probity. Here's a copy of that letter of complaint. And it gets uglier and weirder.

These are only allegations; I haven't heard Soharwardy's side of the story. I'll be happy to publish it when I do, even if it's just a tearful statement of how offended he is.

Let me be clear: I don't wish the women of Soharwardy's mosque success in their human rights complaint against him. All of my arguments against the commission apply to their complaint as much as it applies to Soharwardy's complaint against our magazine. But there's something poetic about Soharwardy being hoist on his own human rights petard. Of course, if there are real claims of harassment or threats, those complaints belong to the police. It may be that new immigrants at Soharwardy's mosque, especially the women, are still operating under Pakistani or Saudi norms of how women expect to be treated. Again, this is the important distinction between merely offensive words vs. physical deeds such as physical abuse.

One proper response to these claims of sexism is a public discussion, including in Calgary's media, about the role of women in Islam, especially here in Canada. That's an uncomfortable topic for the liberal press, as we saw in their awkward coverage of the honour killing of Aqsa Parvez. The mainstream media holds a soft bigotry of low expectations towards people like Soharwardy -- they don't hold him to the same standards of conduct as they would if he were a WASP. If a Christian pastor was accused of sexism and financial irregularities -- complaints that, on the face of them, warrant serious inquiries -- it would be front page news in Calgary. But because of the media's politically correct deference to "the other", they'll give him a mulligan.

Soharwardy is trying to live his Canadian life like he's back in the madrassahs of Pakistan, or on the lecture circuit in Saudi Arabia. He says the Koran should be our constitution, he thinks the police should arrest dissidents like me and, if these complaints have any validity, he's running his mosque with decidedly third-world standards of corruption.

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Posted: 12/ 24/ 09 6:33 am Post subject:

Is there nobody here who can deal with this FN maniac? Christ and I thought I had no life.
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