Salim Mansur PhD: An Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, he contributes to numerous publications where he presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East and foreign policy. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Islamic Pluralism based in Washington, D.C. and a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Coalition for Democracies. He has been an academic consultant with the Center for Security Policy (Washington D.C) and CIDA and the author of Islam's Predicament Perspectives Of A Dissident Muslim