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| Eight Muslim Canadian Congress board members resign |
| 2006-08-24 |
| Split occurs in protest of Lebanon war but group alleges Hezbollah support Eight board members of the Muslim Canadian Congress have resigned their positions, apparently over internal disagreements about a Lebanon war protest at which Hezbollah flags and photos were displayed. "They resigned after the board passed a non-confidence motion against them," said Tarek Fatah, the congress' former communications director who is speaking for the organization until his position is filled. "We went to the (Aug. 12) demonstration and found that there were Hezbollah flags and pictures of the Iranian president," Fatah said. "They (the resigned members) are Canadian supporters of Hezbollah ... This sort of blind following is not acceptable to us." But former congress legal adviser Arif Raza called Fatah's charges "nonsense," saying, "There were allegations, but they were simply not true." Instead, Raza said, every single member of the executive quit because the congress is increasingly out of step with the opinions of mainstream Muslim-Canadians. "The message (MCC) was sending out was ... to make those who are opposed to the (Muslim) community, make them feel comfortable for themselves. We could not support that type of message," Raza said. More at link |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 For background, Tarek Fatah (who often appeares on radio and TV as a moderate Muslim commentator; he also has a local cable show BTW) resigned himself a few weeks ago due to abuse and death threats he was receiving from within the Toronto muslim community. Now it appears some of the more extreme leaders have themselves been outed. |
| Posted by: john 2006-08-24 15:51 |
| #3 No ryuge, this belongs on page one. Muslim's not wanting to be involved in this kind of stuff, is front page news. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2006-08-24 13:26 |
| #2 Good. More of this needs to be seen from the Muslim community if they want to be considered members in good standing of western countgries.uch m |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-08-24 12:26 |
| #1 Sorry - this belongs on page 2 |
| Posted by: ryuge 2006-08-24 12:16 |