National Day for Truth & Reconciliation; Islam & the Muslim Empire

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نشر بتاريخ Oct 2, 2021

- The strong misconceptions that Islam was spread by the sword were held as far back as early Christian literature, and continues today in the right wing media
- This line of though is linked to the early Muslim conquests. However there is confusion when mixing up the spread of the Muslim Empire vs the spread of the Islamic faith
- However historians who actually study this period in time will see that Muslim conquest was a very political movement, and not a mass conversion
- History will show how Islam was spread in a different way, through missionaries and the honesty and fair dealings of Muslim traders
- Yesterday, 30th September 2021 marked the first National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. The day honours the lost Indigenous children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities.
- There were 140 federally run Residential Schools which operated in Canada between 1831 and 1998.
- The aim of the schools was to eliminate Indigenous languages and cultures – and replace them with English and Christian beliefs respectively. Various church groups ran the institutions on behalf of the Canadian government, but one Catholic order oversaw nearly half of them.
- The Catholic Church in Canada has finally apologized to Indigenous Peoples for the Church’s role in abuses committed at the country’s residential schools. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops acknowledged “the grave abuses” committed by its community, abuses that were “physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and sexual.”
- Approximately 150,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children were separated from their families and forced to attend the boarding schools where 4100 to 15000 of them died. With recent discovery of unmarked graves, the numbers will increase.
- How should non-Indigenous people observe the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation? According Cindy Blackstock, director of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society, “Keep in mind that children were more likely to die in residential schools than a soldier was in the Second World War.”
- Let us be familiar with their tragedy and sufferings.

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