About

stopracialprofiling.ca and stopislamophobia.ca are projects of MARU, a registered British Columbia non-profit society.

Founded in 2005, in the aftermath of the rise in racial profiling and Islamophobia after the events of 9/11 (September 11, 2001), the society has focused on:

  1. research (The Impact of Racial Profiling - a research project funded by the Law Foundation of BC and in partnership with the Allard School of Law at UBC -2008);
  2. education (instigating a BC Civil Liberties conference on racial profiling in 2007);
  3. advocacy (working with then Member of Parliament Libby Davies to introduce a private members bill - Bill C-296, An Act to eliminate racial profiling), and;
  4. community engagement (various community events related to racial profiling and Islamophobia).
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Zool SulemanZool Suleman, Executive Director and Lawyer, has been active in law, migration, culture and anti-racism initiatives over the past three decades.

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Mehjabeen DatooMehjabeen Datoo is an educator, scholar, and Adjunct faculty at the University of British Columbia.

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Karim H. KarimProfessor Karim H Karim is a renowned scholar of Islam and media.

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Ali KazimiAli Kazimi is a filmmaker, author and media artist whose work deals with race, social justice migration, history and memory.

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