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Accusing Jews of bringing into Israel “some 25,000 Ukrainian children” in order to harvest their organs

B’nai Brith Canada acknowledges “apology” by Al-Ameen, but dismayed by B.C. Muslim



TORONTO, – B’nai Brith Canada has condemned the Al-Ameen Post, an Islamic community newspaper, which recently ran an article accusing Jews of bringing into Israel “some 25,000 Ukrainian children” in order to harvest their organs.

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TORONTO, January 8, 2010 – Al-Ameen Post, the Islamic community newspaper which recently ran an article accusing Jews of harvesting children’s organs, has issued a public statement directed to B’nai Brith Canada after Canada’s foremost Jewish human rights organization condemned the newspaper in a press release yesterday. The statement, which was faxed to B’nai Brith Canada and prominently featured on Al-Ameen’s website, was entitled “To Our Fellow Jewish Canadians - Our Apologies.” The statement acknowledged that “the leading Canadian Jewish organization, is not pleased with the content of the article, and have asked for an apology” and that “the Editorial Board of alAmeen Post, without prejudice, extends its honest and sincere apology to our fellow Jewish Canadians for any hurt which may have caused by us publishing or communicating such a news article.” But, the statement went on to state that “defending our news article at this juncture would mean causing further divide in our harmonious multicultural fabric, which goes against our own values, but it is needless to say that the issue of ‘Organ Harvesting in Israel’ was being discussed at the time of our last publication, by major media outlets, and not just alAmeen.” In an email to B’nai Brith Canada, the B.C. Muslim Association (B.C.M.A.) claimed that it “has no links to Al-Ameen,” but Al-Ameen’s public statement acknowledged that “our editorial board members may also be members of the BCMA.” “We are still very concerned about the fact that an established Islamic organization such as the B.C.M.A. has not apologized to the Jewish community for the distribution of the antisemitic blood libel published in Al-Ameen, which was disseminated in mosques operated by the B.C.M.A.” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “Were the young students in B.C. government-funded schools operated by the B.C.M.A. exposed to the antisemitic blood libel in Al-Ameen? Will the B.C.M.A. call on the prayer leaders in their mosques and the principals of their schools to inform their congregants and students that this incendiary blood libel is a lie? What action has the B.C.M.A. taken regarding the role of its Vice-President of Planning and Development, Musa Ismail, a man who everyone can acknowledge is one of the three editorial board members of Al-Ameen? “In addition, a National Post blog by a leading Canadian commentator has called Al-Ameen the ‘house journal of the B.C.M.A.’ Responsibility for this blood libel against the Jewish people rests, at least in some degree, with the B.C.M.A. They must take concrete steps to alleviate the damage that has been done by this despicable article and to combat the anti-Jewish hatred that they helped disseminate to the B.C. Islamic community.”

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