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Salim Mansur is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is a former columnist for the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun, and has contributed to various publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East. He is also a member of the Freedom Party of Ontario.
Mansur was a candidate for the People's Party of Canada for the 2019 federal election.
Mansur is a member of the board of directors for the Center for Islamic Pluralism based in Washington, D.C., a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Coalition for Democracies, a group which seeks to support democracies and placed particular emphasis on calling for the Government of Canada to adopt a pro-Israel stance.
Salim Mansur was one of the founding members of Canadians Against Suicide Bombing, a group that has lobbied to amend Canada's Criminal Code to cite suicide bombing as a terrorist crime, efforts which resulted in the passing of Bill S-215 in December 2010. Canada's well-timed bill on suicide bombers By Barbara Kay, National Post 2010-12-13, Retrieved 2018-11-28
He is an academic-consultant with the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. He has been a consultant with CIDA on development issues and has published widely in academic journals on foreign policy matters and area studies of the Middle East and South Asia. Salim Mansur , Biography, The Mark.
He is featured on the documentary produced by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He also unsuccessfully ran for the Canadian Alliance party in 2000, being defeated by Sue Barnes.India today international: Volume 25, 2000, p. 218
Mansur http://justrightmedia.org/index.htm#195, Just Right #195, 14 April 2011 said he was ostracized after writing columns condemning the Taliban and comparing it to the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. According to Mansur, the severe backlash has prompted him to stop going to his local mosque. Defining Today's Moderate Muslim, 17 September 2006|Teresa Watanabe, LA Times
David B. Harris claims there have been two issued by unspecified individuals against Mansur, calling for his death."Is Canada Losing the Balance Between Liberty and Security?", by David B. Harris, Immigration policy and the terrorist threat in Canada and the United States By A. Alexander Moens, Martin Collacott. p. 132
At a press conference on 2 October 2008, Mansur stated that: "Islam is my private life, my conscience... but my faith does not take precedence over my duties... to Canada and its constitution, which I embrace freely... I am first and most importantly a Canadian... Only in a free society will you find Islam as a faith and not a political religion." Mansur expressed the view that former New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton had: "gone to bed with Islamists". Barbara Kay, The Islamist elephant in the room no politicians will acknowledge by Barbara Kay, National Post, 2 October 2008.
Mansur was a candidate for the People's Party of Canada for the 2019 Federal election. Mansur wrote in an Op-ed to Waterloo Region Record ,that he wrote the PPC immigration policy. He previously held the Conservative nomination in London North Centre but was disqualified by the party leadership.
Mansur wrote that a Palestinian state was de facto created by United Kingdom in Jordan by partitioning its Palestine Mandate in 1922, and the Palestinians would have had a state of their own, had they accepted Israel and reconciled themselves to the rights of the Jews in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. The burden of America, Salim Mansur, Proud to be Canadian, 20 January 2007
Mansur's criticisms of other parts of the world have extended so far that he has testified on 1 October 2012 to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration that Canada should stop immigration from Muslim countries. Mansur stated:
Based on his association with the People's Party and his candidacy in the 43rd Canadian Federal Election, coupled with his anti-Muslim views, Mansur was denied a spot at an all-candidates debate being held on October 6, 2019, at the London Muslim Mosque. He has indicated that he may pursue legal action, as he was the only candidate who was not invited.
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