Tarek Fatah, communications director of the Muslim Canadian Congress, has resigned, citing fears for his safety: Fearing for safety, Muslim official quits. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Tarek Fatah, the outspoken, controversial communications director of the Muslim Canadian Congress, has resigned, citing concerns for his safety and that of his family.

Mr. Fatah said he will also resign from the MCC’s board, severing all official ties with the organization he helped found. “It’s not just for me. It’s for my wife and my daughters,” he said in an interview. “Part of it is also to get out of the limelight.”

Mr. Fatah’s socially liberal views have always been controversial within the Muslim community, and in the past month he has been the subject of an e-mail campaign aimed at the Canadian news media.

In his resignation letter to the board, Mr. Fatah wrote that he wanted to step down because of “an increasing heavy load of work.” He said he will stay on in his current capacity until the MCC finds a replacement.

Along with his resignation, Mr. Fatah has filed a report with Toronto Police detailing what he says are a number of threats he has received since 2003. A police investigation is under way.

This article describes Fatah as a socially liberal Muslim. That may be true. But he’s also a first-rate conspiracy lunatic, as this post from last June shows: lgf: MCC Expresses Relief, Conspiracy Theories.

The MCC is determined to fight the extremists at all levels, while maintaining its resolve to expose the agenda of the United States and neo-liberalism.

Tarek Fatah, communications director of the MCC said, “It is ironic that Muslim extremists are portraying themselves as anti-imperialist, when in fact Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are nothing more but a creation of the CIA.”