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Anas Altikriti was booked by same group that held an event with Mark Carney 11 months ago
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FIRST READING: Muslim Association speaker who has lunched with Hamas barred entry to Canada Back to video
A Muslim activist who has lunched with Hamas’s leadership and defended its strategy of taking hostages has been barred entry to Canada, where he was due to speak at an event hosted by the Muslim Association of Canada – a group that hosted a joint event with Prime Minister Mark Carney just 11 months ago.
Anas Altikriti was scheduled as a keynote presenter at the MAC’s annual convention, set to begin Saturday at Toronto’s Enercare Centre. The MAC’s official bio of Altikriti wrote that “his work spans public advocacy, political discourse, civil rights and even hostage negotiations.”
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But after 11 hours of questioning by border authorities at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Altikriti was escorted onto a flight back to the U.K.
In a Facebook post, Altikriti wrote that the reason cited for his rejection was that he had not disclosed........