Shahina Siddiqui
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Shahina Siddiqui is Executive Director of The Islamic Social Services Association of the United States and Canada (ISSA). She is the principal author of the "Women Friendly Mosques" initiative, a columnist for the Winnipeg Sun, and a frequent commentator on Canadian television with regards to Islamic and gender issues and middle east politics. Siddiqui is a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In May 2006 Siddiqui filed an unsuccessful formal complaint of racism against several Winnipeg Jewish community groups who cosponsored the movie "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", which she saw as hate speech. Siddiqui's views on the Arab-Israeli conflict can be found in her 2000 article "No Peace in Islam Without Justice".
