{"id":1062598,"date":"2021-11-28T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062598"},"modified":"2021-11-28T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:14:21","slug":"canada-school-board-cancels-event-with-yazidi-nobel-laureate-former-isis-sex-slave-over-islamophobia-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-school-board-cancels-event-with-yazidi-nobel-laureate-former-isis-sex-slave-over-islamophobia-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada School Board Cancels Event with Yazidi Nobel Laureate, Former ISIS Sex Slave over \u2018Islamophobia\u2019 Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanada-school-board-cancels-event-with-yazidi-nobel-laureate-former-isis-sex-slave-over-islamophobia-fears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062598&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233736532-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>A Canadian school board recently caused an uproar after it withdrew support for an event featuring Yazidi activist, former Islamic State (ISIS) sex slave, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad out of concern it could foster \u201cIslamophobia\u201d and \u201coffend\u201d Muslim students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) decided to pull a book club event scheduled for February after it planned to feature a discussion around 28-year-old Yazidi activist and Nobel-prize winner Nadia Murad\u2019s memoir, <\/span><i><span>The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State<\/span><\/i><span>, which describes her frightening capture and enslavement by ISIS terrorists in 2014 as well as her daring escape.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The autobiographical work also details her family\u2019s execution as well the repeated rape and torture she endured as she was exchanged among ISIS militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The reason for the cancellation, <a href=\"https:\/\/tfipost.com\/2021\/11\/a-book-by-isis-survivor-nadia-murad-has-been-banned-by-canada-citing-islamophobia\/\">according<\/a> to the board, was that Murad\u2019s book could \u201cpromote Islamophobia\u201d and \u201coffend\u201d Muslim students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The book club at which Murad was to be featured was founded by entrepreneur Tanya Lee in 2017 and invites teenage girls from various secondary schools to discuss books with their female authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>After being informed of Murad\u2019s cancellation, Lee, who herself suffered sexual and physical abuse as a child, sent the board\u2019s superintendent Helen Fisher information about ISIS gathered from CNN and the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is what Islamic State means,\u201d Lee <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2021\/11\/24\/school-pulls-event-former-islamic-state-sex-slave-fears-would\/\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> to Fisher. \u201cIt is a terrorist organization. It has nothing to do with ordinary Muslims. The TDSB should be aware of the difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Lee, Fisher would not budge and instead responded by sending a copy of the board\u2019s policies on selecting equitable, culturally relevant and responsive reading materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thousands of Yazidis were killed or enslaved when ISIS overtook northern Iraq in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Murad, who was forced into sexual slavery at the age of 21 by ISIS fighters in 2014, went on to become a Yazidi human rights activist and the winner of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/2018\/murad\/facts\/\"><span>2018<\/span><\/a><span> Nobel Peace Prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>She is also a UN Goodwill Ambassador and a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to the boards decision, many expressed shock over the censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>In one <\/span><i><span>Toronto Sun<\/span><\/i><span> editorial, the board was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/editorials\/editorial-censorship-at-canadas-largest-school-board\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> of being on the path to \u201cburning books\u201d it differs with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile Canada\u2019s biggest school board hasn\u2019t yet started burning books that it disagrees with, it appears to be well on its way to doing so,\u201d it read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cApparently, the Toronto school board either doesn\u2019t know or doesn\u2019t care that Islamic State is considered a terrorist organization by Canada, one that terrorizes Muslims, especially Muslim girls,\u201d the editorial continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Rex Murphy, a Canadian conservative commentator and author, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/rex-murphy-toronto-school-boards-profoundly-ignorant-rejection-of-book-club-event-with-nobel-prize-winner\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> the TDSB of being \u201cintent on keeping students in its jurisdiction from exposure to such a true heroine.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe equity department was concerned she would stoke Islamophobia!\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Naomi Buck, a Toronto-based journalist, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-curiosity-is-at-the-core-of-education-canadas-largest-school-board-has\/\"><span>blasted<\/span><\/a><span> the board for refusing to recognize Murad\u2019s \u201cextraordinary accomplishments,\u201d while claiming the event\u2019s cancellation \u201creflects an attitude that is anti-learning and anti-curious \u2013 an attitude that has no place in education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Political commentator Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-born Canadian liberal journalist, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/fatah-the-outrageous-censorship-of-nadia-murad\"><span>referred<\/span><\/a><span> to the \u201coutrageous censorship\u201d of Murad as a \u201cshock.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt reeked of ignorance and subservience to an Islamist attitude that has infiltrated too many institutions of Canada,\u201d he added, \u201cespecially urban schools where cafeterias have been turned into prayer halls, with gender apartheid on full display.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Warning that the board\u2019s decision is \u201cnot merely about censorship,\u201d Fatah wrote that the \u201cdrumbeat of \u2018Islamophobia\u2019\u201d has made \u201cevery concerned citizen worry that he or she does not end up with the tag of \u2018racist\u2019 throughout their lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen the largest education board in Canada surrenders itself to the whims of Islamist sensitivities, and Nadia Murad is designated as a possible contributor to Islamophobia, then rest assured the dikes have been breached,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is not the first time educational staff have capitulated to the extreme sensibilities of students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In May, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/30\/rutgers-university-apologizes-condemning-antisemitism-after-pressure-pro-palestinian-group\/\"><span>following<\/span><\/a><span> protests from the radical anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group, the chancellor and provost of Rutgers University issued an apology for a previous condemnation of antisemitism, promising to be \u201cmore sensitive and balanced\u201d in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn hindsight, it is clear to us that the message failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members,\u201d the apology said. \u201cWe sincerely apologize for the hurt that this message has caused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian school board recently caused an uproar after it withdrew support for an event featuring Yazidi activist, former Islamic State (ISIS) sex slave, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia 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