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Toronto
Commemoration of 2010 International Day of Al-Quds
All Out to Support
the Just Struggle of the Palestinian People!
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Seminar on International Day of Al-Quds
Friday, September 3
Centennial Recreation Centre, 1967 Ellesmere Rd (Scarborough)
Starts at 8:00 pm with public Iftaar Dinner.
Featured speakers: Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Spokesperson of Neturei
Karta International;
Dr. Farid Ayad, President, Palestine House
Organized by: Canadian
Shia Muslim Organization
Walk for Palestine
and Gaza Freedom Rally
Saturday, September 4 --
2:00 pm
Queen’s Park
Featured speakers: Prof. Abbie B. Bakan; Maulana Hasan M. Rizvi; James
Clark, Toronto Coalition to Stop the War; Khaled Mouammar, President,
Canadian Arab Federation; Sandra Ruch, Canada Boat to Gaza; Dr. Farid
Ayad, President, Palestine House
Organized by: Al-Quds
Committee
The International
Day of Al-Quds is held annually on the last Friday of Ramadan. Al-Quds
is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Al-Quds Day calls for Jerusalem to be
returned to the Palestinians and for everyone to support the just
struggle of the Palestinian people and those of all oppressed peoples
worldwide. The day, first commemorated in 1979, was started
by
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A few days after making
the call for Al-Quds Day, Khomeni elaborated that, “Quds
Day
is an international day, it is not a day devoted to Quds alone. It
is the day for the weak and oppressed to confront the arrogant powers,
the day for those nations suffering under the pressure of American
oppression and oppression by other powers to confront the superpowers;
it is the day when the oppressed should arm themselves against the
oppressors and rub their noses in the dirt [...] Quds
Day is the day when the fate of the oppressed nations should be
determined. [...]" (Islamic
Republic
of Iran Broadcasting)
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