OTTAWA, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Canada's immigration minister is considering cutting funding to a Canadian-Arabic group after being called a "professional whore" by the organization's leader.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told Sun Media at an international anti-Semitism conference in London he won't tolerate such remarks made by the leader of the Canadian Arab Federation's president, Khaled Mouammar.


Mouammar lashed out at Kenney calling him a "professional whore" and alleged that Kenney was promoting Islamophobia after the Conservative minister criticized the presence of Hamas and Hezbollah flags at anti-Israeli protests in Toronto recently, the report said.

"This government is anti-Arab and anti-Muslim," Mouammar said of Canada.

Kenney told Sun Media a federal grant of $447,297 for an Arabic settlement program in Toronto would be reviewed and possibly cut after March 2010.

"We should not be rewarding those who express views that are contrary to Canada's best liberal values of tolerance and mutual respect," the minister said in the interview.