Research guides: Dismantling racism &amp; oppression: Fighting Islamophobia

Online Resources

National Council of Canadian Muslims
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit organization that protects Canadian human rights and civil liberties, challenges discrimination and Islamophobia, builds mutual understanding, and advocates for the public concerns of Canadian Muslims.

In Their Words: Untold Stories of Islamophobia in Canada
Miranda Gallo, Mashaal Saeed, Sanan Islam, & Reyhana Patel, Islamic Relief Canada, 2020

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod, 2013
Reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. "Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam -- as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.
In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada by Natasha Bakht, 2020
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Call Number: KE 4430 B34 2020
This book analyzes bans of the niqab in Canada while also drawing on interviews with niqab-wearing women to reveal their complex identities and motivations for dressing in this modest way.
Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World by Saadia Zahidi, 2018
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Across the Muslim world, ever greater numbers of women are going to work. In the span of just over a decade, millions have joined the workforce, giving them more earning and purchasing power and greater autonomy. Zahidi illuminates this discreet but momentous revolution through the stories of the remarkable women who are at the forefront of this shift.

'It's Like Living in a Nightmare': Canadian Muslims Describe Their Experiences After 9/11: 20 years Later, Canadian Muslims Say They are Still Dealing with the Fallout from the Attacks
Written and produced by Mouhamad Rachini, CBC Radio, September 10, 2021
Canada’s Homegrown Islamophobia
The Take Podcast, Al Jazeera, Episode 357, January 24, 2022. In this episode: Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Al Jazeera online editor & Jasmin Zine, professor in sociology and religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University
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It was the deadliest attack on a house of worship in Canada’s history. Six people lost their lives when a gunman opened fire on a mosque in Quebec City in 2017. In the five years since, hate incidents have not stopped. Some of them have been deadly. And it has led to questions about how Canada treats its Muslim population.
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