Aly Hindy is the imam of a Toronto mosque the National Post once called a "radical mosque." Through 2015 the opening said he was "notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians accused of terrorism." Today the word survives once in the body but is gone from the opening, which now carries only the National Post's "radical mosque" label with no explanation of why. A reader today learns a newspaper called his mosque radical and does not learn that he was noted for defending Canadians accused of terrorism.
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Aly Hindy is the current Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, Canada , notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians accused of terrorism. A noted friend of the Khadr family , Hindy immigrated to Canada in 1975 after graduating in Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt . He spent the next four years studying at the University of Western Ontario , where he received his Doctorate in structural engineering. He worked for Stone & Webster for two years, before starting his 21-year career as a safety engineer for Ontario Hydro . According to the 2005 interrogation of Abdullah Khadr in Pakistan, Hindy's son briefly attended the Musab al-Surri Afghan training camp in the late 1990s, however Abdullah's lawyer, Dennis Edney, has claimed that his statements were a product of Pakistani torture and should be discounted. . The director of the Canadian Islamic Congress in Toronto, Hindy was arrested by Egyptian security forces in February 2003 and held for two days before being released. Upon his return to the country in November, he was questioned for three hours at the Cairo Airport and twice brought to the State Security bureau for interviews. In 2004, Hindy celebrated the 135th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi by organising a group of 100 local Muslims to videotape the CN Tower as part of a non-violent protest against detention of Kassim Mohamed who was arrested after taking footage of the tourist attraction on his videocamera. Hindy has performed at least thirty polygamous wedding ceremonies which are illegal in Canada.1
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Aly Hindy is the current Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, Canada , notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians convicted of terrorism. A noted friend of the Khadr family , Hindy immigrated to Canada in 1975 after graduating in Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt . He spent the next four years studying at the University of Western Ontario , where he received his Doctorate in structural engineering. He worked for Stone & Webster for two years, before starting his 21-year career as a safety engineer for Ontario Hydro . Aly Hindy (right) in 2004 According to the 2005 interrogation of Abdullah Khadr in Pakistan, Hindy's son briefly attended the Musab al-Surri Afghan training camp in the late 1990s, however Abdullah's lawyer, Dennis Edney, has claimed that his statements were a product of Pakistani torture and should be discounted. The director of the Canadian Islamic Congress in Toronto, Hindy was arrested by Egyptian security forces in February 2003 and held for two days before being released. Upon his return to the country in November, he was questioned for three hours at the Cairo Airport and twice brought to the State Security bureau for interviews. In 2004, Hindy celebrated the 135th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi by organising a group of 100 local Muslims to videotape the CN Tower as part of a non-violent protest against detention of Kassim Mohamed who was arrested after taking footage of the tourist attraction on his videocamera. Hindy has performed at least thirty polygamous wedding ceremonies which are illegal in Canada.
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Aly Hindy is the Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto , Ontario, Canada once called "Toronto's million-dollar radical mosque” by the National Post.The Globe and Mail , Arar case began amid fear of attack on Ottawa , January 16, 2004 "Faisal Kutty: The Dirty Work of Canadian Intelligence" . 2006-01-02.
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Aly Hindy is the Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto , Ontario, Canada once called "Toronto's million-dollar radical mosque” by the National Post . The Globe and Mail , Arar case began amid fear of attack on Ottawa , January 16, 2004 "Toronto's million-dollar 'radical mosque' " .
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current imam of the salaheddin islamic centre in scarborough
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imam of the salaheddin islamic centre in toronto
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