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Published on: 6/26/2009
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In a recent CentreNews, we included an article by Farzana Hassan, former President of the Muslim Congress of Canada, in which she took to task the Centre for Faith and Media.
Her primary accusation was that CFM had inadvertently been working with an organization with links to terrorism.
She claimed that CAIR-CAN individuals who have participated in CFM events were Islamists with suspicious connections.
She also complained that more Muslim voices and groups were not represented at CFM events.
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Farzana Hassan, a freelance writer and former president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, has recently written an article for IPT News about the involvement of Heritage Canada with the Centre for Faith and the Media (CFM), an organization which she claims has "been used as a welcome mat for radical Islamism".
She says that through the CFM, the Council on American-Islamic Relations Canada (CAIR-CAN) is being permitted to project itself as "moderate" at publicly-funded roundtables, even though it is suspected of terrorist connections.