Defence Minister Peter MacKay's banning of a leading imam from the military's Islamic History Month event has exposed an executive-level rift in the Canadian Islamic Congress between forces of progress and orthodoxy.
In a letter to the National Post today, CIC president Wahida Valiante openly disavows her reform-minded executive director, Zijad Delic, and rejects his criticisms about the Muslim group's many public controversies, especially the failed hate speech cases against Maclean's magazine.
Ms. Valiante writes that Mr. Delic's plan to "purify" and "Canadianize" the CIC, and his desire to avoid lawsuits in favour of dialogue, "in no way reflect the views of CIC board." [National Post] Read more [via Butterflies and Wheels]
