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Eight Muslim Canadian Congress board members resign
Split occurs in protest of Lebanon war but group alleges Hezbollah supportEight 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 2006-08-24 |
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