Raheel

Raza

Vice Chair

  • Raheel Raza is President of The Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow.
  • Founding member of The Muslim Reform Movement.
  • Director of Forum for Learning.
  • President, Steering Committee of The Council for Muslims Against Antisemitism (CMAA).
  • Member of the National Advisory Board of Abraham Global Peace Initiative.
  • Member of the Advisory Board, The ACTV Foundation (The Alliance of Canadian Terror Victims).
  • Munk Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  • Board member, Creative Cultural Communications.
  • Advisory Board  Member, The Clarion Project.
  • Member of the Advisory Council, Harvard Alumni for Global Women’s Empowerment.
  • Award-winning journalist, public speaker, and advocate for human rights, gender equality, and dignity in diversity.

VISION AND GOALS:

EXPOSE the dangers of a radical Islamist ideology and take back the faith.

EMPOWER women for rights and gender equality.

EDUCATE youth about the dangers of radicalization and terrorism.

MEDIA:

Raheel has appeared in print and on TV and radio numerous times, including CNN, FoxNews, Real Time with Bill Maher, and BBC Hardtalk. In 2017, she gave over 100 international interviews and published over a dozen op-eds.

AWARDS:

  • Senate of Canada award for service to Canada. Award given by Linda Frum
  • Medal of Courage by Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Beverly Hills, California, 2018
  • Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for service to Canada
  • City of Toronto’s Constance Hamilton Award
  • The Urban Hero Award

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

  • Universities across the USA and Canada, including Harvard, Columbia, and Brandeis
  • Oxford and Cambridge in the UK
  • Parliaments of Sweden, UK, Canada, Israel, and Capitol Hill in Washington DC
  • Tedx Amsterdam
  • Justice Departments, School Boards, and Places of worship
  • The Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem

Raheel was accredited with the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in her pursuit of human rights from 2011 to 2017.


ACHIVEMENTS:

  • In July 2017, Raheel gave testimony to the US Congress on “Combating Homegrown Terrorism.”
  • She runs a Forum for Learning with panels, discussions, and international speakers.
  • She has taught courses on various aspects of Islam at George Brown College and Ryerson University in Toronto since 2017.
  • Participant in the award-winning documentary Honor Diaries.
  • Raheel has made a documentary film called Whose Sharia is it anyway? featuring the Sharia debate in Ontario, Canada.
  • Wrote and Produced a social satire called Chai Latte.

BOOKS:

  • ABC’s of Islamism, 2020
  • Their Jihad – Not My Jihad

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Articles by:
Raheel
PINNED

Pakistan should normalize relations with Israel.

August 7, 2023
Israel has rarely commented on the situation in Pakistan since the two countries were created at almost the same time in history.
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Pakistan is in crisis — and that should worry us all

April 5, 2023
If ever there was a drama that had the intertwined storylines of Game of Thrones and The Sopranos, it would be the political situation in Pakistan.
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I'm a Muslim, and I love Israel. Here's why

February 20, 2023
How did I, as a Pakistani-born Canadian Muslim, get so fascinated by Israel that I've traveled there 13 times? (The last time I was there, an immigration officer asked me, "...
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