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'''Salim Mansur''' is a Professor Emeritus of [[Political Science]] at the [[University of Western Ontario]] in [[Canada]]. He is a former columnist for the ''[[London Free Press]]'' and the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'', and has contributed to various publications including ''[[National Review]]'', the ''[[Middle East Forum]]'' and [[Frontpagemag]]. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East.<ref name="bio"/> He is also a member of the Freedom Party of Ontario.<ref>{{cite web|title='Politics Is Personal' Dinner|date=15 November 2014|publisher=Youtube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f91uZXCKCcM|author=Freedom Party of Ontario|accessdate=10 September 2018}}</ref>

Mansur was a candidate for the [[People's Party of Canada]] for the 2019 Federal election.

==Biography==
Mansur was born in [[Kolkata]], [[India]] and moved to [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada where he completed his doctorate studies in political science.<ref name="bio">[http://www.fraserinstitute.org/author.aspx?id=15020&txID=2922 Biography], Fraser Institute</ref><ref>[https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/ImmigrationPolicyTerroristThreatCanadaUS.pdf Immigration policy and the terrorist threat in Canada and the United States] By A. Alexander Moens, Martin Collacott. Retrieved 2018-11-28</ref>

Mansur is a member of the Board of Directors for the [[Center for Islamic Pluralism]] based in [[Washington, D.C.]], a Senior Fellow with the [[Canadian Coalition for Democracies]], a group which seeks to support democracies and placed particular emphasis on calling for the [[Government of Canada]] to adopt a pro-Israel stance.

Salim Mansur was one of the founding members of Canadians Against Suicide Bombing, a group that has lobbied to amend Canada's Criminal Code to cite [[suicide bombing]] as a [[terrorist]] crime, efforts which resulted in the passing of Bill S-215 in December 2010.<ref>[https://nationalpost.com/full-comment/barbara-kay-canadas-well-timed-bill-on-suicide-bombers Canada's well-timed bill on suicide bombers] By Barbara Kay, National Post 2010-12-13, Retrieved 2018-11-28</ref>

He is an academic-consultant with the [[Center for Security Policy]] in Washington, D.C. He has been a consultant with [[Canadian International Development Agency|CIDA]] on development issues and has published widely in academic journals on foreign policy matters and area studies of the [[Middle East]] and [[South Asia]].<ref>[http://www.themarknews.com/authors/1197-salim-mansur Salim Mansur] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009002222/http://www.themarknews.com/authors/1197-salim-mansur |date=2011-10-09 }}, Biography, The Mark.</ref>

He is featured on the documentary [[Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West]] produced by the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]]. He also unsuccessfully ran for the [[Canadian Alliance]] party in 2000, being defeated by [[Sue Barnes]].<ref>India today international: Volume 25, 2000, p. 218</ref>

Mansur <ref>http://justrightmedia.org/index.htm#195, Just Right #195, 14 April 2011</ref> said he was ostracized after writing columns condemning the [[Taliban]] and comparing it to the [[Khmer Rouge]] of [[Cambodia]]. According to Mansur, the severe backlash has prompted him to stop going to his local mosque.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/17/local/me-muslim17/3 Defining Today's Moderate Muslim], 17 September 2006|Teresa Watanabe, LA Times</ref>

David B. Harris claims there have been two [[fatwa]]s issued by unspecified individuals against Mansur, calling for his death.<ref>"Is Canada Losing the Balance Between Liberty and Security?", by David B. Harris, Immigration policy and the terrorist threat in Canada and the United States By A. Alexander Moens, Martin Collacott. p. 132</ref>

At a press conference on 2 October 2008, Mansur stated that: "Islam is my private life, my conscience... [but] my faith does not take precedence over my duties... to Canada and its constitution, which I embrace freely... I am first and most importantly a Canadian... Only in a free society will you find Islam as a faith and not a political religion." Mansur expressed the view that former [[New Democratic Party of Canada|New Democratic Party]] Leader [[Jack Layton]] had: "gone to bed with Islamists".<ref name=National1>[http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/02/barbara-kay-the-islamist-elephant-in-the-room-no-politicians-will-acknowledge.aspx Barbara Kay, The Islamist elephant in the room no politicians will acknowledge]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by [[Barbara Kay]], [[National Post]], 2 October 2008.</ref>

Mansur was a candidate for the [[People's Party of Canada]] for the 2019 Federal election.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/ppc-leader-pitches-platform-at-secret-cambridge-rally-1595355|title=PPC leader pitches platform at secret Cambridge rally|website=KitchenerToday.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-25}}</ref> Mansur wrote in an Op-ed to ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'' ,that he wrote the PPC immigration policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/9617894-opinion-i-am-a-ppc-candidate-and-i-am-not-a-racist/|title=Opinion: I am a PPC candidate and I am not a racist|last=Mansur|first=Salim|date=September 27, 2019|website=The Record|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> He previously held the Conservative nomination in [[London North Centre (provincial electoral district)|London- North Centre]] but was disqualified by the party leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-scheer-and-conservatives-running-scared|title=GOLDSTEIN: Scheer and Conservatives running scared {{!}} Toronto Sun|last=SUN|first=Toronto|last2=Opinion|date=2019-06-29|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-07-25}}</ref>

==Notable viewpoints==
===Views on Israel-Palestine conflict===
In 2008, Mansur congratulated [[Israel]] for its 60th anniversary, and declared that the Jewish state "deserves admiration": "Israel is a tiny sliver of land in a vast tempest-ridden sea of the Arab-Muslim world, and yet it is here the ancient world's most enduring story is made fresh again by Jews to live God's covenant with Abraham as told in their sacred literature."<ref>Israel Deserves Admiration, by Salim Mansour, Edmonton Sun, 10 May 2008</ref> In 2010, he wrote: "The story of modern Israel, as many have noted, is a miracle unlike any [...] It is a robust and inclusive democracy, and is at the leading edge of science and technology [...] What hypocrites demand of Israelis and the scrutiny Israel is subjected to by them, they would not dare make of any other nation."<ref>[http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/08/13/15017996.html Israel facing revival of deep-seated hate], 14 August 2010, The Edmonton Sun</ref>

Mansur wrote that a [[Palestinian state]] was ''de facto'' created by [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in [[Jordan]] by partitioning its [[British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument)|Palestine Mandate]] in 1922, and the [[Palestinians]] would have had a state of their own, had they accepted Israel and reconciled themselves to the rights of the Jews in [[Jerusalem]] and the [[Holy Land]].<ref>[http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/writergroup/the_burden_of_america/ The burden of America], Salim Mansur, Proud to be Canadian, 20 January 2007</ref>

===Criticism of the Arab and Muslim World===
Mansur writes that, from [[Algeria]] to [[Indonesia]], from [[Central Asia|Central Asian]] republics to [[Sudan]], the entire Muslim world: "has turned its back on modernity".<ref>Islamization and Activism in Malaysia, by Julian C H Lee, p.15</ref> He says the Muslim world must stop blaming the West for its own ailments.<ref>Other voices from the Middle East clipboard, Volume 9. American Educational Trust, 2006. p. 70</ref>

Mansur's criticisms of other parts of the world have extended so far that he has testified on 1 October 2012 to the [[House of Commons]] Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration that Canada should stop immigration from Muslim countries. Mansur stated:

:The flow of immigration into Canada from around the world, and in particular the flow from Muslim countries, means a pouring in of numbers into a liberal society of people from cultures at best non-liberal. But we know through our studies and observations that the illiberal mix of cultures poses one of the greatest dilemmas and an unprecedented challenge to liberal societies, such as ours, when there is no demand placed on immigrants any longer to assimilate into the founding liberal values of the country to which they have immigrated to and, instead, by a misguided and thoroughly wrong-headed policy of multiculturalism encourage the opposite.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sibley|first=Robert|title=Close the borders to Muslim immigrants: Salim Mansur’s House of Commons testimony|url=http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/10/12/salim-mansurs-senate-testimony-close-the-borders-to-muslim-immigrants/|publisher=Ottawa Citizen|access-date=13 October 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014190545/http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/10/12/salim-mansurs-senate-testimony-close-the-borders-to-muslim-immigrants/|archive-date=14 October 2012|df=}}</ref>

Based on his association with the People's Party and his candidacy in the 43rd Canadian Federal Election, coupled with his anti-Islamist views, Mansur was denied a spot at an all-candidates debate being held on October 6, 2019 at the London Muslim Mosque. He has indicated that he may pursue legal action, as he was the only candidate who was not invited.<ref>https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/mosque-shuts-out-ppc-from-debate-over-partys-stance-on-religion-hate-crimes</ref>

===Skepticism about mainstream scientific position on Climate Change===
Mansur said in 2009 that [[Climategate]] revelations "falsified" a theory associated with the claim of man-made global warming.<ref>S. Mansur, "Vindicating Climate Change Skeptics," Ottawa Sun, 12 December 2009. <http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2009/12/12/12129971-sun.html></ref> He has also suggested that climate scientists, "corrupted by the lure of money and influence, subscribed to the UN-based scheme for the largest global tax grab and revenue transfer -- some version of global carbon tax -- by raising false alarms about impending planetary doom in the name of science."<ref>S. Mansur, "Dubious Science Drives Climate Fears," Toronto Sun, 5 December 2009. <http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2009/12/05/12050906-sun.html?comments_page=11&id=12050906#/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2009/12/05/pf-12048291.html></ref>

==Electoral record==
{{Canadian federal election, 2019/London North Centre}}

==Books==
*2011: ''Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism''. Brantford, ON: Mantua Books.
*2009: ''Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim''. Oakville, Canada and Niagara Falls, NY: Mosaic Press.
*1994: (with N.K. Choudhry) (eds). ''The Indira-Rajiv Years: The Indian Economy and Polity 1966-1991''. Toronto: Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

==External links==
* [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/21/robert-fulford-canada-s-angriest-quot-moderate-quot.aspx Robert Fulford: Canada's angriest 'moderate']{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 21 November 2009, by Robert Fulford, National Post.

==References==
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