“NDP opportunism betrays Canada” - Salim Mansur
“There was a time when the left in Canada, the NDP and its supporters, understood the meaning of freedom and stood prepared to defend it against its totalitarian foes…
“But that good sense, which characterized the NDP leadership from its founding years in the Depression era of the 1930s to the end of the Cold War, seems to be lost to the present leader, Jack Layton, and his federal caucus as it embraces Islamists of the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC)…
“It is, however, inexcusable for any federal party to be uninformed about the nature of Islamism and Islamists in Canada. It should be a matter of embarrassment for any federal party to receive public endorsement from an Islamist organization as the NDP has received from the CIC.
“Instead of repudiating CIC chief Mohamed Elmasry’s support for the NDP, Jack Layton has opened the party to front for Canadian Islamists. In the riding of Bourassa in Montreal, Layton is running a CIC operative, Samira Laouni of Moroccan origin, as NDP candidate…”