[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto police chaplain under fire for women's 'obedience' comments to stay with force
CBC News' Shanifa Nasser reports on a problematic police chaplain here in Toronto.
A Toronto police chaplain under fire for comments made about women's "obedience" to their husbands will continue to serve with the force for the time being, CBC News has learned.
Musleh Khan met recently with Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders, and "would like an opportunity to be heard by members of the Toronto Police Service," spokeswoman Meaghan Gray told CBC News on Friday.
"We will be facilitating that opportunity. In the meantime, he continues as a volunteer chaplain," Grey said.
The force would not comment further.
Khan drew ire on Tuesday from critics including the Toronto police union and the Canadian Council of Muslim Women over comments he made in a 2013 webinar for Muslim couples.
In the almost hour-long seminar - called The Heart of the Home: the Rights and Responsibilities of a Wife - Khan appears to imply a wife must make herself sexually available and "not withhold this right from her husband without a valid excuse," such as sickness or obligatory fasting.
A Toronto police chaplain under fire for comments made about women's "obedience" to their husbands will continue to serve with the force for the time being, CBC News has learned.
Musleh Khan met recently with Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders, and "would like an opportunity to be heard by members of the Toronto Police Service," spokeswoman Meaghan Gray told CBC News on Friday.
"We will be facilitating that opportunity. In the meantime, he continues as a volunteer chaplain," Grey said.
The force would not comment further.
Khan drew ire on Tuesday from critics including the Toronto police union and the Canadian Council of Muslim Women over comments he made in a 2013 webinar for Muslim couples.
In the almost hour-long seminar - called The Heart of the Home: the Rights and Responsibilities of a Wife - Khan appears to imply a wife must make herself sexually available and "not withhold this right from her husband without a valid excuse," such as sickness or obligatory fasting.