FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Attention: Assignment Editor, City
Editor, News Editor, World News Editor, Government/Politica
The coordinator of International Campaign against Sharia
Court in Canada opposes religious schools being incorporated into the public
system.
Homa Arjomand calls a Press
Conference at Queen's Park, Toronto, on
In a press statement released by Opposition
Leader John Tory on July 24,07, it stated,
"Taxpayers should fund Islamic, Hindu, Jewish and other faith-based
schools just like public and Catholic ones".
"Tory and his party have started a
dangerous game, We, all concerned citizen and progressive forces will defeat John
Tory as we did it in the struggle against faith based arbitration" said
Ms. Arjomand.
Homa Arjomand, Coordinator
of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada along with other activists, is
calling a press conference to demand one secular public school system.
"We declare that the rights of the
child should take precedence over any national, racial, economic, political,
ideological, and religious consideration or interest; Complete separation of
religion from education; the State is obliged to ensure a uniform school system
for all children under the age 18; No one has the right to prevent the child
from all norms and standards and it is the duty of the State to protect the
universal rights of the children; no one has a right to segregate children and
place them under religious dogmas, traditions and habits; no one has a right to
prevent the child from participating in social and leisure activities and
prohibiting them from participating in dancing, singing, playing an
instrument." We therefore call on the
for all children and no funding for any
faith-based schools.
Dr. Robert Buckman,
Mahmoud Ahmadi, Elka Enola, Tarek
Fateh, Justin Trottier, Gail McCabe, and Homa Arjomand are some of the
featured
speakers.
Location: Queen's Park, Toronto
Date: Monday, July 30th, 2007, 11:00 AM
About the Campaign
Homa Arjomand is the
Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia
Court in Canada and chairperson of Cultural Bridges Association.She
started her campaign in Toronto in October 2003 with a handful of supporters,
and today it has grown to a coalition of 87 organizations from14 countries with
over a thousand activists. In February 2006, the OntarioGovernment
passed legislation which ended the use of religious laws for
family arbitration. Since then, the Campaign has focused its efforts on stopping
political Islam globally. Homa is now Coordinator of
a campaign called "No to political Islam" and is a human rights
activist she was forced to flee
Media Contact: Ms. Homa Arjomand
416-737-9500.
Email: homawpi@nosharia.
Web site: www.nosharia.