By Tarek Fatah
The gloom of 9/11 still hung in the air one December evening in 2001 as I mingled with guests at the Canadian Arab Federation's (CAF) annual heritage day event. That December evening, the CAF honoured me with their highest award in recognition for my services to the Arab cause. The plaque that then-CAF president John Asfour presented to me still hangs prominently in my home.
Today, the CAF, a great Canadian institution built as a meeting place for Canadian Arabs of all political and racial hues, has been turned into a mouthpiece for Hamas and Hezbollah in Canada. The CAF used to support the peace process in the Middle East and held healthy debates on the pros and cons of the Oslo peace accord, but these days any backer of the two-state solution is automatically branded a traitor to the Muslim cause.
One need only listen to the words of the current CAF leadership to understand the abyss of mediocrity this federally and provincially funded organization has sunk into. Earlier this week, the current president of the CAF, Khaled Mouammar, called Immigration Minister Jason Kenney a "professional whore" because Mr. Kenney criticized the display and waving of Hamas and Hezbollah flags at a CAF-backed protest rally. Read more ...
The gloom of 9/11 still hung in the air one December evening in 2001 as I mingled with guests at the Canadian Arab Federation's (CAF) annual heritage day event. That December evening, the CAF honoured me with their highest award in recognition for my services to the Arab cause. The plaque that then-CAF president John Asfour presented to me still hangs prominently in my home.
Today, the CAF, a great Canadian institution built as a meeting place for Canadian Arabs of all political and racial hues, has been turned into a mouthpiece for Hamas and Hezbollah in Canada. The CAF used to support the peace process in the Middle East and held healthy debates on the pros and cons of the Oslo peace accord, but these days any backer of the two-state solution is automatically branded a traitor to the Muslim cause.
One need only listen to the words of the current CAF leadership to understand the abyss of mediocrity this federally and provincially funded organization has sunk into. Earlier this week, the current president of the CAF, Khaled Mouammar, called Immigration Minister Jason Kenney a "professional whore" because Mr. Kenney criticized the display and waving of Hamas and Hezbollah flags at a CAF-backed protest rally. Read more ...
Source: National Post
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