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January 23, 2004

Article at odds with Islamic teaching

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Editor: The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) condemns a recent article published in a British Columbia Muslim newsletter [Miracle, Dec. 19] that, among other accusations, blamed Jews for faking the Holocaust, causing the Great Depression, beginning both the First and Second World Wars and planning the Sept. 11 attacks.

We stand with other Canadians in denouncing the contents of this hateful and malicious article (written by Idaho resident Edgar Steele, who the Southern Poverty Law Centre identifies as an anti-Semite and anti-black racist). Such commentary is completely at odds with both the letter and spirit of Islamic teaching and merely hinders efforts at interfaith understanding and tolerance.

Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations

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