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The January shooting followed and in August 2017 the President of the mosque had his car burned in an arson attack.

The mosque annually donated money (2001-2010)to the charity International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN). This charity had its status revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency and was declared a terrorism entity by the Government of Canada. The reasons given were that it was set up to fund Hamas, which according to the Hamas Covenant,is one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestine.

Abdullah Assafiri is a leading figure in the mosque. The mosque has identified himas the “directeur de la formation et de l’animation religieuse au Centre culturel islamique de Québec.” He has been a spokesperson for the mosque at government hearings. As was revealed in the Holy Land Relief Fund terrorism funding trials in the USA, the Muslim Brotherhood had a list of its Shura Council members in North America. Among them was Abdullah Assafiri, who was listed as the Masul (leader) for “Canada-East”. He played no role in the trial.

In his testimony to the Senate of Canada, Muslim Brotherhood expert Dr. Lorenzo Vidino identified the NCCM as a Muslim Brotherhood front group.

NCCM was formerly known as the Council for American Islamic Relations Canada (CAIR CAN). The parent agency of the Ottawa-based NCCM/CAIR CAN is CAIR USA. This has been confirmed by the U.S. State Department, CAIR USAand by the website of NCCM/CAIR CAN itself, which states that the Washington-based CAIR USA is its parent organization. Despite this evidence, Mr. Gardee has testified to the Parliament of Canadaand to the CBC that the organizations have no relationship.