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The Polemical Creed of a ‘Bewildering Breed’: Reflections on the First Crusade
May 14, 2026The crusader zeal and its attendant polemic established critical precedents for the proliferation of Anti-Islamic tropes and narratives in the premodern period. Throughout the four crusades, these narratives settled in the European canon and the Christian collective ‘psyche’. The discourse produced in this period is foundational in that it ‘sets the stage’ for contextualizing the manifestation of Islamophobic rhetoric across the Latin West, Iberia, and the colonies of European empires.
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Report: Humanitarianism and the Exclusion of Muslim Charities from the Financial Sector
April 27, 2026A policy report addresses the downstream unintended consequences on Canadian Muslim charities, especially humanitarian ones, of Canada’s anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, and sanctions regime.
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Muslims and Ontario’s Child Welfare System: Preliminary Findings
April 9, 2026This piece explores preliminary findings about Muslim children’s involvements with Ontario’s CASs based on data from Freedom of Information Requests.
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Launch of new data report on Muslim demographics
October 31, 2025The Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS), in partnership with Islamic Relief Canada (IRC) are excited to launch a new data report titled: Canadian Muslim Demographics, Socioeconomics, Social Attitudes, and Experiential Outcomes. The report offers a data analysis of the makeup of Canadian Muslim communities and how they are evolving over time. BackgroundIn 2023, IRC approached […]
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