Fathima Cader
Fathima Cader, Windsor Law's Social Justice Career Coordinator and sessional instructor, was quoted at length in a Law Times article entitled, "Controversies put lots on plate for Muslim women lawyers."
Cader, a founder of the Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law, disagrees with the government’s argument that it wants to ban the niqab at the oath-swearing portion of Canada's citizenship ceremony in order to protect women.
She asks, “What does it mean for a government that has explicitly refused to investigate the murders and disappearances of thousands, literally thousands, of aboriginal women in Canada . . . to now say we are so concerned about violence against Muslim women?”
Cader is further quoted that she believes the government's claims are being used to obscure violence against indigenous women.