Alia Hogben Among Canada’s Most Powerful

By Mohammed Ayub Khan, TMO Contributing Writer

Alia Hogben PHOTO CREDIT: Alia Hogben

Alia Hogben, former bureaucrat, social worker and executive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, has been named by Maclean’s magazine as one of Canada’s most powerful. She is the only Muslim in the list.

The magazine introduced her as one of “the most compelling liberal voices of Islam in Canada.” While promoting Islam’s message of inclusiveness and tolerance she doesn’t shy away from speaking out when she sees problems both within and outside the community.

Most recently she told the Canadian Press that she was disheartened by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s refusal to denounce anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of Ottawa shootings.
She is a 2011 recipient of a honorary doctorate from Queen’s University. She is also the second Muslim woman to ever receive the Order of Canada.

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