{"id":1437966,"date":"2022-04-14T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437966"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:01:29","slug":"muslim-charity-claims-canadian-tax-audit-islamophobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/muslim-charity-claims-canadian-tax-audit-islamophobic\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Charity Claims Canadian Tax Audit &#039; Islamophobic&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmuslim-charity-claims-canadian-tax-audit-islamophobic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-532005661-e1649886992374-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) has announced it will be taking legal action against the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) after claiming a several year-long audit of the group\u2019s finances is \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) launched a financial audit of the charity in 2015 but now the group is claiming that the entire process, which could lead to the rescinding of the group\u2019s designation as a non-profit, is Islamophobic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nabil Sultan, the chair of MAC, said that the group was launching a formal legal challenge, and stated, \u201cWe want to see an audit that is not discriminatory and we want to be treated like any other religious charity in this country,\u201d broadcaster CBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/mac-cra-charter-challenge-1.6417684\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s lawyer Geoff Hall claims that CRA questioned expenses relating to events at religious holidays such as Eid and Ramadan. Hall told the broadcaster, \u201cImagine for a moment if a Christian organization was told by the CRA that its Christmas parties weren\u2019t Christian enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CRA has also allegedly claimed that the MAC has had \u201cimproper foreign ties\u201d according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t help, on this anniversary, to reflect on Muslim Canadians,&#8221; Trudeau said on the 9\/11 anniversary, adding that &#8220;we all need to stand together&#8221; against racism and Islamophobia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He did not call for a stand against jihad and radical Islam, however. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rABifRhflT\">https:\/\/t.co\/rABifRhflT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1436746574906941443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The group has previously run into controversy regarding its ties to other groups, including its prior ties to IRFAN-Canada, to which it donated\u00a0$296,514 in the 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>It was later <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150130034511\/http:\/\/www.sunnewsnetwork.ca\/sunnews\/canada\/archives\/2015\/01\/20150128-090519.html\">revealed<\/a> that IFRAN-Canada had ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and had allegedly raised millions for the terror group before the Canadian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/news\/archive\/2014\/04\/government-canada-lists-irfan-canada-terrorist-entity.html\">designated<\/a> IFRAN-Canada a terrorist group in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo G. Vidino, a terrorism expert who <a href=\"https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino\">serves<\/a> as\u00a0Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, has also <a href=\"https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino\">claimed links<\/a> between MAC and the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The MAC would not be the first major Muslim organisation in the Western world to be accused of links to more radical elements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canada&#8217;s French-speaking province of Quebec is seeing a new trend of young non-Muslim people adopting Islamic customs and holidays. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p0oPGWfqOh\">https:\/\/t.co\/p0oPGWfqOh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1168216459920756736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In France, the French government under President Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/10\/20\/macron-govt-proposes-dissolving-major-islamist-associations-teacher-beheading\/\">moved to dissolve<\/a> the\u00a0Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) in the wake of the killing of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by a radical Islamist Chechen refugee after showing pictures of the prophet Mohammed to his class.<\/p>\n<p>While the CCIF voluntarily dissolved itself, the French government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/01\/french-govt-rejects-islamophobia-term-protecting-criticism-islam\/\">slammed<\/a> the use of the term Islamophobia as a method for Islamists to silence criticism of radical Islam.<\/p>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) has announced it will be taking legal action against the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) after claiming a several year-long audit of the group\u2019s finances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}