Canadian Press: Raja Khouri and Halifax Police

canadian press: By Michael Mac Donald The Canadian Press Wed., July 20, 2016 Halifax police are perpetuating damaging stereotypes by using Middle Eastern to describe three unknown cab drivers suspected in a recent string of alleged sexual assaults, critics say, according to Toronto Star. There no such thing as a Middle-Eastern-looking person, said Raja Khouri, president of the Toronto-based Canadian Arab Institute. Categorizing them as such opens the door for negative stereotypes. Khouri, who is also member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, said the millions of people from the 17 countries in the region come from disparate backgrounds, which means their physical attributes vary widely. You can be black. You can be white. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.