A government audit of one of Canada’s largest Muslim charities alleges some of its directors and employees were involved in “an apparent Hamas support network.”auditors cited the “troubling” allegation as one of the reasons it felt there were grounds to revoke the charity status of the Muslim Association of Canada.
Despite publicly distancing itself from IRFAN-Canada following the government action, MAC went on to allow the group to “fundraise and promote itself at the organization’s events and properties,” the CRA wrote. In addition, MAC members used an “electronic mailing list to promote IRFAN-Canada’s events. It is important to reiterate that the events promoted occurred after IRFAN-Canada was revoked for in part supporting Hamas,” the CRA wrote.In 2014, the government outlawed IRFAN-Canada as a terrorist entity. But MAC websites promoted IRFAN-Canada “after it was listed as a terrorist entity in Canada,” the auditors alleged.
But the group has been “less than forthright with the public, the media, and with the CRA about its activities and how it undertakes them,” reads the audit letter sent to its president.Last year, MAC tried without success to put a stop to the audit by appealing to the Ontario court. MAC argued the failure of the auditors to believe the charity’s representatives was consistent with an Islamophobic narrative.
The CRA said in a statement to Global News that the audit document, called an Administrative Fairness Letter, was generally “issued to provide a charity with the CRA’s findings when an audit uncovers that a charity is not following the requirements of the Income Tax Act.
Egypt’s ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt, May 8, 2014.While MAC denied ties to the group, the CRA wrote that “support for the Muslim Brotherhood by the organization’s senior leadership appears to be manifesting itself in the activities and decisions made with the organization.”
“The CRA is concerned about Mr. Sharafeldin’s apparent relationships with high ranking Muslim Brotherhood officials and the potential impact and influence these individuals could have on Mr. Sharafeldin and the organization.”In his affidavit, the former MAC vice-president Yaser Haddara explained MAC was in a bind over the involvement of his brother Dr. Haddara in the Morsi campaign.Although the CRA has alleged Dr.
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