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The CRA had agreed to register the organization as a charity based on promises that the organization would conduct due diligence on its speakers. But the auditors found that there was very little to suggest any due diligence about vetting the speakers. The CRA also conducted a sample review of speakers and concluded that their viewpoints “may be incongruous with the concept of public benefit.”

This newspaper was unable to reach a mosque official for comment Thursday evening. However, Muhammad Haile, the mosque secretary and a member of its board of directors, told Global News that the CRA’s decision was a shock. “We don’t tolerate any hate,” he was quoted as saying.

The list of speakers mentioned in the audit includes several controversial clerics, including Abu Usamah At-thahabi, a U.K.-based imam who has been quoted as saying Christians and Jews are enemies to Muslims; Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, a Jamaica-born Canadian who has been banned from entering several countries, and Said Rageah, a Toronto-area imam who was criticized in 2009 for calling on God to “damn” infidels.

Some of the events were organized by members of the congregation, and not by the mosque’s directors, said the auditors, who also praised the organization for alerting the appropriate authorities to individuals who appear to have been radicalized. The name of one such individual was redacted.

But the auditors still had reservations.

“The Organization, by allowing these individuals to make use of its facilities, and to speak to an audience consisting of its parishioners, is providing its guest speakers with a de facto endorsement,” said the auditors.