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Islamic Social Services Association Inc, Canada
(ISSA)
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ISSA is a not for profit community based charitable organization that serves as a network for addressing the multifaceted needs and concerns of Canadian Muslims and their families and is guided by the teachings of justice, equality, and respect for human rights as laid out in the Islamic tradition and bound by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. we provide family, health and social welfare services, inclusive of the many cultural and ethnic groups that comprise our Muslim communities in Manitoba and Canada. ISSA helps facilitate, bridge, navigate, advocate, collaborate, educate and build awareness and provide direct service and support to individuals and communities by collaborating and integrating into mainstream health and social services of our community.
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There are concerns and questions about the exclusive Holocaust education curriculum about to be introduced in our schools by the provincial government. I also understand that there may be an Islamophobia curriculum being developed. These are both noble undertakings.
However, in the spirit of empathy, inclusivity, and fairness, why not develop a singular curriculum that falls under the banner of “Human Rights Education,” addressing colonialism, genocides — past and present — that is free of political and personal biases, a truly Canadian approach that will inform and teach students about all genocides and ethnic cleansing in modern human history, for example, the Armenian, Bosnian, and Rohingya genocides, to name a few, and those that are underway today...................
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