yes there is, just go into the link i provided, and read the about us section.

or i guess clicking on a link might be too complex technologically for you, so i'll just cut & paste the relevant part:

"MAC adopts and strives to implement Islam, as embodied in the Qur'an, and the teachings of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and as understood in its contemporary context by the late Imam, Hassan Albanna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAC regards this ideology as the best representation of Islam as delivered by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)."

link to muslim brotherhood. you might as well be linked to al qaeda, or kkk.

just go and read up on the muslim brotherhood. it's not because you're an ignorant fool that its my responsibility to educate you on every god damned detail of my comment.

He's a speaker at an event sponsored by the muslim brotherhood. That doesnt seem to bother you but that just reflects more on you ignorance than anything else. Im sure if anyone spoke at an event sponsored by the KKK you would be capable of drawing the correct inference.

hmmm, i dont know, it's THE muslim brotherhood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_brotherhood

that event. in the real world, its possible that an event has many sponsors. also, that event was going to happen AT the DND and it was organized by many external orgs, including MAC.

nice.

racist: noun, indicates that a lefty idiot has lost an argument against a conservative.

But… the event's going forward, isn't it? They didn't cancel the event, they just told Delic that he wasn't invited to speak at it anymore. In your analogy, the KKK sponsored event is still happening, they've just told someone who's not a member of the KKK that he can't speak at the KKK sponsored event.

Emily, you're betraying a shocking ignorance of what our free speech rights are under the Charter. If someone invites me to speak at an event, and then de-invites me, my free speech rights have not been violated. And that's because I had no "right", Charter or otherwise, to attend or speak at the event in the first place. The invitee is invited to the event at the pleasure and discretion of the inviter.

I don't have the Charter-protected right to attend and speak at an event organized by other people. Nor do you. Nor do any of us. If my neighbour is having a dinner party, I don't have a Charter right to attend and speak at it.

I don't agree with what the government did here, but you shouldn't go asserting Charter rights and violations that simply don't exist.

I guess it depends on whether you mean that in the legal sense or not. All I'm saying is, in terms of Canadian law, the man's Charter rights have not been violated, however much you might disagree with what the government did here (and I do). He had no Charter-enforceable right to attend, or to be invited to, this event in the first place. Ergo, on being de-invited, no Charter-enforceable right was violated.

Or are you claiming that this guy had a Charter-enforceable right to be invited to, and attend, the event?

Do you two feel any concern about the fact that the DND is treating a Muslim Canadian like something less than a Canadian citizen? Essentially implying that the CIC is durned nearly a terr'ist org? Did they learn nothing form their George Galloway fiasco?

Yes, I did see that, and I actually agree that it is important to distinguish whether or not something is a violation of the Charter right of freedom of expression.

But it is even more important to point out that Mackay has acted as an unprincipled coward in this matter, and that he and Harper are letting religious bigots lead them around by the nose, which is absolutely unacceptable in people who are leading the Government of Canada.

Holly, my first instinct is to disagree with the decision to disinvite Imam Zajid Delic from the speech, especially after reading the innocuous text of the speech that Wherry posted above. I know almost nothing about the man, CIC, or the "Muslim Brotherhood", but at first glance I don't see anything that would indicate unsavoury affiliations.

If he was an extremist cleric, or if he had a history of antisemitic statements, then I can see why he should be disinvited. But Imam Zajid Delic comes across as a moderate with a positive message, so not only does it make no sense to disinvite him, it sends the wrong message.

Here is McVety's trash: http://www.canadianvalues.ca/kmitan/399-canadian_…

Why should the government let religious bigots like McVety tell it who can and cannot speak at a function?

Your nose doesn't work. Maybe it's getting too long.

I know enough not to believe anything you write.

Why should the government let religious bigots like McVety tell it who can and cannot speak at a function?

Indeed. You've almost got it. Now once you realize that the government doesn't have to listen to you or Emily tell them who can and cannot speak at a function either, we're there!

geez emily you're such a legal scholar. care to show me a charter case in which being uninvited was deemed a violation of free speech rights?

you're confusing the privilege to a particular forum with freedom of speech. same mistake made by the islamist morons who tried to sue macleans.