TORONTO — Last week, Haroon Siddiqui, the Toronto Star’s editorial page editor emeritus and a member of the Order of Canada, published
a piece accusing secularists and liberals of enabling Egypt's new military junta and unjustly labelling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. B’nai Brith Canada has often disagreed with the opinions of Mr. Siddiqui and this type of conspiratorial journalism as a cheap and unwarranted indirect attack on the Jewish community.
B’nai Brith Canada CEO, Frank Dimant, issued the following statement:
“Haroon Siddiqui’s latest piece derides the Canadian Government’s apparent inaction regarding the fate of Canadian Journalist Mohamed Fahmy, stating that Prime Minister Harper is largely motivated by a desire to “woo” Jewish votes. In his ongoing fervor to attack the Harper Government, he has resorted to the age-old habit of scapegoating the Jewish community for decisions he is unhappy with.
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Mohamed Morsi, one of the prime beneficiaries of the Arab Spring, declared in 2010 — almost a full year before the Egyptian revolution — that Egyptians should nurse their children on hatred for the Jews and Zionists who are ‘descendants of apes and pigs’. Those concerned about the Muslim Brotherhood’s motives are further vindicated by the fact that it maintains
Ikhwanonline.com, a site
rife with articles denying the Holocaust, extolling Jihad and Martyrdom, and condemning Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel.
“To date, the only regrettable thing is that the Canadian government has not seen fit to place the Muslim Brotherhood on Canada’s list of terrorist entities for their ties to the terror group Hamas.”
