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A Muslim graduation ceremony won’t be held at a community centre in Outremont Saturday evening after the borough cancelled the reservation.

The Outremont borough issued a press release Saturday morning saying it had made the decision following “disturbing information” broadcast on the TVA Nouvelles network Friday.

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The network’s investigative show J.E. said two fundamentalist imams — Salah Assawy and Omar Shahin — were hosting the Académie de la charia nord-américaine, la MISHKA’s event where diplomas would be handed out in islamic studies.

Borough Mayor Marie Cinq-Mars said they deemed the presence of controversial leaders mentioned in the television network’s report “unacceptable” and could lead to serious problems.

She immediately asked borough management to cancel the reservation, Cinq-Mars said in a statement.

The rental agreement for a private muslim school to stage a graduation ceremony at the Centre communautaire intergénérational on McEachran Ave. featured the name A.S.I.C., which the borough believes is an acronym for the Association des Sciences Islamiques au Canada.

The name of the l’Académie de la charia nord-américaine, la MISHKA didn’t appear in the rental contract and staff at the centre learned about it during the television report, the borough said in its statement.