MAR 29, 2024 JLM 68°F 11:20 AM 04:20 AM EST
Toronto School Board Bans Memoir by ISIS Victim Because of ‘Islamophobia’

A good rule of thumb is that if you notice Islamic terror, you’re the Islamophobe.  Even if you’re a teenager who was taken captive and raped by ISIS.

For the past four years, Canada’s largest school board has partnered with Tanya Lee, a Toronto mother and entrepreneur who runs a book club for teenaged girls called A Room Of Your Own, which is rooted in her conviction that reading and open conversation can empower young women, as it did for her. Ms. Lee makes a point of targeting the club to schools in high-priority neighbourhoods, and emphasizes its inclusive, positive atmosphere.

To date, the TDSB has supported Ms. Lee’s club by distributing books to participating students, discussing them in class and allowing club members to take a day off school to attend (back when in-person meetings were still possible). 

But that support ended last month, when Ms. Lee was informed by Helen Fisher, a TDSB superintendent, that the board would not be promoting two of the books Ms. Lee had selected for upcoming meetings.

Those books: Marie Henein’s Nothing But the Truth: A Memoir and Nadia Murad’s The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State.

Ms. Fisher explained to Ms. Lee that the board’s equity department found the first book problematic because its author, one of Canada’s top criminal defence lawyers, had defended former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi against charges of sexual assault. 

Ms. Lee says Ms. Fisher also told her that Ms. Murad’s book could foster "Islamophobia".

“To publish “The Last Girl” right now, in the United States, means there are tricky issues of sensationalism to navigate; in a threatening climate of Islamophobia, Muslims of all kinds are vilified for the actions of one group.”

If you tell about ISIS rapes, you’re an Islamophobe?

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Comments
Danny Brackett 22:52 23.11.2021
This takes stupidity and immorality to a new level! What message! Worried about hate? ISiS hates Christians and Jews but that’s ok, right?
Susan Medrano 22:40 23.11.2021
You better teach your children the truth, cuz the system, the beast, cannot!
Nancy Dunham 22:28 23.11.2021
What happened to The Truth??? This is Disgusting!
terrence przybylski 22:17 23.11.2021
Muslims go to www.Answering-Islam. Org.
Dan Getzin 22:13 23.11.2021
Apologists and the Media. Worthless Chattel at times...go figure.
Kelly Grizzard 22:09 23.11.2021
I WILL criticize Islam because it's a false narrative created by Satan!! There is only ONE GOD and his name is Yeshua!! I really don't care if what i say offends anyone! It's the truth!!
[deleted] 22:08 23.11.2021
No lie it truth about then needs be told.
Robert Mcmaster 19:54 23.11.2021
Whatever you do, don't give people the fact she and let them come up with there own conclusions.If I was told isis fighters were raping, I would think how brutal Jhihadist fighters are. I already know
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