A retired judge wants two Ontario universities to bar Muslim students from being awarded scholarships he has established, though the spokesperson for one institution says her school won’t support a proposal that “flies in the face of everything we stand for.”
Paul Staniszewski said he objects to the “medieval violence” used by the Taliban – such as when Taliban militants recently kidnapped and beheaded Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak – and he wishes to “disqualify” Muslim students from receiving financial aid he has paid for.
“I’m reacting to what’s going on to people who aren’t even soldiers, who are having their heads beheaded and this stuff is shown on the TVs and everything else,” Staniszewski told CTV.ca in a phone interview from his Tecumseh, Ont., home, just outside of Windsor.
“I am doing the same thing these people are doing, except I’m not cutting off heads, I’m cutting off applications for help in their studies,” he added later in the interview.