Calling for The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah to pull out of Toronto event supporting Islamist intolerance

The National Post reports:

Our organization is calling on Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, to withdraw from a troubling fundraiser to benefit “Islamic Relief” scheduled for Toronto on May 20th.

Here’s why: Muslims in North America are being forced to live under the thumb of extremists. Some of western Islam’s most prominent clerics might publicly praise and practice interfaith dialogue, but we have seen how, behind closed doors, many of them promote hatred and incite violence. To the dismay of moderates, these extremists have gained control over much of the Muslim community, partly because they have been legitimized as representative voices by government, the media and prominent public figures who fail to note the Islamists’ bigoted rhetoric once the microphones are switched off.

Trevor Noah is due to speak in Toronto alongside Nouman Ali Khan, a prominent American cleric with a history of involvement in Islamist causes. While Khan projects a moderate image, we have found evidence of him expressing repugnant views about homosexuals and abusing women.

And while the group that he and the Daily Show host are fundraising for, Islamic Relief, has been praised for its charitable work, it is also financially linked with a number of terrorist groups, and regularly gives platforms to preachers who incite hatred against women, Jews, homosexuals and Muslim minorities.

Nouman Ali Khan is no exception. Khan is a Texas-based Salafist imam, quoted as an authority on American Islam and in 2013 was named one of the world’s 500 most-influential Muslims.

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