April14th, 2011
Dear Editor,
I would like to turn readers’ attention to the following disturbing announcement: “Islamist group ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) hosting a rally with Michael Ignatieff on March 28 ‘11 in Mississauga”.
This announcement appeared on a recent Facebook posting by author, broadcaster and founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress Tarek Fatah. In this posting he warned: “For the uninitiated, ICNA follows the ideology of the Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan and the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Albana. The spiritual head of the ICNA is the late Syed Maududi who was once sentenced to death for his role in the pogroms aimed at liquidating the Ahmaddiya Muslims in Pakistan in 1952.
Tarek Fatah says: “How on earth will the leader of the Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, explain why he got himself in bed with ICNA? Well, if Rob Oliphant can have lunch with a pro-Taliban politician, Imran Khan, then ICNA promoting a Liberal candidate should be no big surprise.”
Well, are you at least a little more concerned about the possibility of getting a Michael Ignatieff government?
Ziggy Eckardt,
Burnaby, B.C.