Posted on 02/24/2015 2:40:55 PM PST by rickmichaels
MONTREAL -- A Muslim social services leader made an anti-radicalization submission to a Senate committee then faced tough questions about her own alleged association with radicals.
Shahina Siddiqui, of the Winnipeg-based Islamic Social Services Association, appeared before the Senate committee on national security and defence in Ottawa Monday.
She called on Muslims and non-Muslims to work together to combat ISIS and al-Qaida but also cautioned against "religious bigotry by Islamophobes."
Committee chairman Sen. Daniel Lang and member Sen. Lynn Beyak questioned Siddiqui about her work as a board member with the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), formerly known as CAIR-CAN.
The Ottawa advocacy group announced last year it was suing Prime Minister Stephen Harper for linking the organization with the terrorist group Hamas.
Senator Beyak asked Siddiqui about the connections between CAIR-CAN and CAIR-USA.
The U.S. group is an unindicted co-conspirator in a $12-million Hamas financing trial that led to guilty verdicts in Texas in 2008.
"How can we trust community organizations to help us develop a counter-radicalization narrative when they themselves are affiliated with organizations with known ties to terrorism?" Beyak asked.
Siddiqui told senators that CAIR-USA and CAIR-CAN/NCCM are not related.
But, in fact, Canada's trademarks database indicates CAIR-USA applied for, and was granted, the trademark on the CAIR name in Canada in 2005.
On Monday, Siddiqui offered what appeared to be a defence of the Washington, D.C. group."Ž"If they are unindicted then they're not guilty," she said.
The Senate committee has been assessing security threats to Canada since last summer while reviewing anti-radicalization measures.
Last year the RCMP publicly disavowed an anti-radicalization handbook it had created in partnership with Siddiqui's NCCM, saying the booklet has an "adversarial tone."
Lang asked Siddiqui about the "very extreme statements" made by certain Muslim scholars listed in the booklet.
Siddiqui defended the scholars and said the booklet's critics don't understand Islam.
“religious bigotry by Islamophobes”
“critics who don’t understand Islam”
Deport her Muslimah @zz!
She cautioned against Islamophobes? The only good Islamophobe is a dead Islamophobe ?
Nah? I am not a “phobe”. Like most Canadians, I have been taught thoroughly about fascism. Enough of our forbearers served to defeat it. And knowing about Islamofascism and those who enable it by doing or saying nothing? Those who do or say nothing are as bad as the Islamofascists themselves.The Germans found that out the hard way in 1930s Europe. So did the Vichy French.
Shahina , dahling, you can’t have it both ways, either be a Canadian of get out of Dodge!
And BTW this is a great read too:
Barack Obama, The Quintessential Fascist
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
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