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Web Talk with Raheel Raza: How One Muslim Activist Came to Support Israel

Raheel Raza, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and founding member of the Muslim Reform Movement, spoke on how she came to support Israel and what it costs a Muslim who says so publicly.

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Speaker

  • Raheel Raza

    Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author; president, Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow

    Author of *Their Jihad, Not My Jihad: A Muslim Canadian Woman Speaks Out*. A journalist, public speaker, anti-racism activist and interfaith discussion leader based in Toronto, Raza is a founding member of the Muslim Reform Movement and an open opponent of Islamic extremism.

Raza opposes Islamic extremism in public and under her own name, and she supports Israel in public too. She spoke about how she got there and what saying it out loud has cost her.

One of AIC’s early pandemic Web Talks, free and open to anyone who registered. Ten organizations helped promote it, among them Muslims Facing Tomorrow and the Muslim Reform Movement.

In partnership with

  • Israeli-American Council, Atlanta
  • Muslims Facing Tomorrow
  • Muslim Reform Movement
  • Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast

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