Profiles / Profils
– Public Safety Canada (July 23, 2013): Profile of Hussein Hamdani
– Settlement and Integration Services Organization / SISO: Profile of Hussein Hamdani
– Lina El-Ahmed & Simin Abassi (www.thevoiceindiaspora.com – August-September 2008): Hussein Hamdani’s profile
– Simpson Wigle Law Firm: Profile of Hussein Hamdani (Web Archive – Archives PdeB)
Affiliations and Leadership Positions / Affiliations et positions de leadership
Member – Public Safety Canada (Cross-Cultural Table on Security)
Member – Special Investigations Unit (SIU is under the responsibility of Ontario’s Attorney General. According to its website, SIU is “an independent civilian agency with the power to both investigate and charge police officers with a criminal offence.”)
Member – Hamilton Chief of Police’s Advisory Committee
Member – Burlington ON Mayor’s citizen advisory committee on civic engagement / Shape Burlington (The Spectator / Hamilton, February 5, 2010, p. A9)
Board Chair – Settlement and Integration Services Organization (SISO shut down after its CEO and its finance director were convicted of defrauding the federal government for millions of dollars.)
Senior Advisor – Muslim Youth of North America Organization (MYNA)
Vice-Chair – North American Spiritual Revival (NASR)
Founding member – Ihya Foundation (Ihya launched the Muslim Brotherhood-linked RIS Conventions in 2003)
Board Director – Hamdani Islamic Foundation (St. Catharines)
PR Officer – Halton Islamic Association
Legal counsel – Muslim Association of Hamilton (The Spectator / Hamilton, January 28, 2010, p. A3)
Spokesperson – Muslim Council of Greater Hamilton (The Spectator / Hamilton, September 11, 2010, p. A4)
Coordinator (2003) – Toronto Muslim Summit
President (1998-1999) – Muslim Students Association (University of Western Ontario)
Treasurer (1995) – Muslim Students Association (McMaster University)
Basic Information / Informations essentielles
– 1979 – cbc.ca (November 1, 2012): Hussein Hamdani’s family came to Canada from Uganda as refugees in 1979
– Michelle Shephard (Toronto Star – March 5, 2004): Hussein Hamdani, legal advisor to Abdurahman Khadr
– Denise Davy (The Spectator / Hamilton – November 16, 2010): Hussein Hamdani is identified as the brother of Sallah (33), the Executive Director of Islamic Relief Canada
– IslamicReliefCanada.org (October 9, 2012): Islamic Relief Canada lists eight categories of zakat beneficiaries (One of these categories is constituted by Muslims involved in jihad / “Those struggling in the path of Allah.” Muslim Brotherhood-endorsed sharia manual specifies that “those struggling in the path of Allah” who may receive Muslim charity are those who are “engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster.”)
– Simpson Wigle Law Firm (July 7, 2012): Hussein Hamdani is a partner at Simpson Wigle Law Firm since January 2009 (Hamdani is specialized in corporate, commercial and residential real estate law.)
Writings and speeches / Ecrits et discours
– Bruce Culp (Standard / St. Catharines – November 17, 2001): Calling himself “a moderate”, Hussein Hamdani claims that Islam “has been distorted by fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden” (Hamdani is identified as a Toronto law student originally from St. Catharines in the article.)
– Hussein Hamdani, Kamran Bhatti and Nabila Munawar (Canadian Diversity – Fall 2005): Is the ‘war on terrorism’ a war on religious pluralism and liberty in Canada?
– Lynda Hurst (Toronto Star – July 6, 2006): Muslim leaders discuss the role of imams (Hussein Hamdani reiterates that Islam has no clerical hierarchy. Another interviewee blames “cyber-imams” for the radicalization of young Muslims.)
– Hussein A. Hamdani, Kamran Bhatti, Nabila F. Munawar (Muslim Presence – December 1, 2008): Muslim Political Participation in Canada (Activities organized by Ihya Foundation in the early 2000s are mentioned.)
– Hussein Hamdani (The Spectator / Hamilton – March 5, 2009): Hussein Hamdani invokes free speech to condemn restrictions imposed by universities during “Israel apartheid week”
– Hussein Hamdani (The Spectator / Hamilton – July 9, 2009): Hussein Hamdani tells the story of his family – Part 1 (From Yemen to Uganda to Canada / Hamdani’s grandfather died in 2008 and his full name was Hussein Abdalla Hamdani like the Hamilton lawyer. This information implies that before 2008 the Hamdani Foundation Board member Hussein Hamdani could have been the grandfather or the Hamilton lawyer.)
– Hussein Hamdani (The Spectator / Hamilton – July 23, 2009): Hussein Hamdani tells the story of his family – Part 2 (From Yemen to Uganda to Canada)
– The Agenda with Steve Paikin / TVO (May 31, 2010): Hussein Hamdani refuses to be held responsible for the actions of other Muslims, equating it to collective guilt (Tarek Fatah, another guest on the show, points out that individualism and liberalism contradict the collectivist notion of Ummah [Muslim nation] advocated by Islamist organizations.)
– Hussein Hamdani (The Spectator / Hamilton – August 19, 2010): Hussein Hamdani: Funding Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Relief charity will block Talibans
– Hussein Hamdani (The Hamilton Spectator – September 2, 2010): Hussein Hamdani endorses Faisal Rauf, the imam behind the Ground Zero Mosque (“The initiators of the mosque — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan — have condemned violence, denounce anti-Semitism, attend Seders, host interfaith dialogues, advise the FBI and they are followers of Sufism — the mystical branch of Islam. They are the type of people that you want running this facility.”)
– Feisal Rauf (What’s right with Islam – 2004): Feisal Rauf presents Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide Youssef Qaradawi as a “moderate voice” (excerpt on p. 162)
– Investigative Project on Terrorism (February 6, 2013): ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Imam Sued for Fraud
– Hussein Hamdani (The Spectator / Hamilton – January 20, 2011): Let’s ban handguns in Canada
– Faisal Kutty, Naseer (Irfan) Syed and Hussein Hamdani (Canadian Lawyer – March 23, 2015): Attacks under the guise of parliamentary privilege / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Hussein Hamdani (Facebook – August 19, 2016): Reaction to a CBC article / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Adam Carter (CBC News – August 19, 2016): Tories turfed anti-radicalization specialist, but can’t prove they investigated him / WebArchive – Archive.Today
Articles / Point de Bascule
– Point de Bascule (December 12, 2013): Reviving the Islamic Spirit – In 2003, the launch of the RIS conventions in Toronto was sponsored by an organization tied to Al-Qaida (Hussein Hamdani was director of Ihya Foundation, the organizer of the event.)
– Point de Bascule (17 décembre 2013) : Reviving the Islamic Spirit – En 2003, le lancement des conférences RIS de Toronto a été commandité par une organisation liée à Al-Qaïda (Hussein Hamdani était le directeur de Ihya Foundation, l’organisateur de l’événement.)
– Point de Bascule (August 21, 2014): The RCMP and other Canadian security agencies still consult Islamist leaders involved in the radicalization of young Muslims
– Point de Bascule (September 5, 2014): June 8, 2012 – Muslim Brotherhood delegation led by Hussein Hamdani met with Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews / Details provided by lawyer of Hamas’s fund collector
– Point de Bascule (October 3, 2014): Maryland Police chief scheduled to meet with CAIR apologist Rabia Chaudry and Canadian security advisor Hussein Hamdani
– Point de Bascule (October 15, 2014): A 4-person delegation from Public Safety Canada, including Islamist Hussein Hamdani, went to Maryland to talk about the terrorist threat
– Point de Bascule (30 décembre 2014) : Point de Bascule répond au directeur de l’information télévisée de Radio-Canada, Jean Pelletier, sur la pénétration des services de police par les islamistes
– Point de Bascule (January 5, 2015): Islamist penetration of police services – Point de Bascule replies to Radio-Canada’s Senior Director of information, Jean Pelletier
– Point de Bascule (29 avril 2015) : Hussein Hamdani prônait «l’islamisation de la politique étudiante sur les campus» avant d’être nommé conseiller à la sécurité publique par le gouvernement du Canada
– Point de Bascule (April 30, 2015): Hussein Hamdani advocated “the Islamization of campus politics” before being appointed public safety advisor by the government of Canada
– Point de Bascule (29 avril 2015) : Sécurité publique Canada suspend Hussein Hamdani de son poste de conseiller après que TVA ait rappelé son appel à «islamiser la politique étudiante sur les campus» et ses liens avec des financiers du terrorisme / Vidéo archivée
– Point de Bascule (April 30, 2015): Public Safety Canada suspends its advisor Hussein Hamdani after TVA reported on his call “to Islamize campus politics” and his relationships with terror-funding organizations / Archived video with English subtitles
– Maurais Live (1 mai 2015) : AUDIO Le directeur de Point de Bascule à Maurais Live pour commenter la suspension de l’islamiste Hussein Hamdani de son poste de conseiller à Sécurité publique Canada
– The RebelMedia (May 2, 2015): VIDEO Ezra Levant and Marc Lebuis on the suspension of Canada’s security advisor Hussein Hamdani
– Point de Bascule (20 mai 2015) : Au moment où deux organisations de Hussein Hamdani contribuaient à IRFAN-Canada, le ministre qu’il conseillait était poursuivi en diffamation pour avoir affirmé qu’IRFAN finançait le Hamas
– Point de Bascule (May 25, 2015): While two organizations associated with Hussein Hamdani were contributing to IRFAN-Canada, the minister whom he was advising was being sued by IRFAN for having said that it was funding Hamas
– Point de Bascule (June 4, 2015): Point de Bascule replies to Catherine Solyom (Reply to an article that defended Hussein Hamdani after some of his past positions were criticized by Point de Bascule)
References by Topic / Références par thème
Suspension from Public Safety Canada’s roundtable / Suspension de la Table ronde de Sécurité publique Canada
– TVA Nouvelles (29 avril 2015) : VIDÉO Organisations islamistes – Les liens d’un conseiller du gouvernement fédéral inquiètent / WebArchive – Archive.Today (Première édition du reportage diffusée avant la suspension de Hussein Hamdani)
– TVA Nouvelles (29 avril 2015) : VIDÉO Organisations islamistes – Les liens d’un conseiller du gouvernement fédéral inquiètent (Deuxième édition du reportage diffusée après la suspension de Hussein Hamdani)
– TVA Nouvelles (April 29, 2015): VIDEO Islamist organizations – A federal advisor’s relationship with Islamist organizations worry the federal government (Subtitled English version of the second edition of the French TVA report that was broadcast after Hussein Hamdani’s suspension)
– Droit-Inc (30 avril 2015) : Liens avec organisations islamistes: un avocat soupçonné / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Hussein Hamdani (CBC News – May 1, 2015): VIDEO Hussein Hamdani’s statement on allegations
– Adam Carter (CBC News – May 1, 2015): Hussein Hamdani says federal election politics behind his suspension / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Steve Buist (Hamilton Spectator – May 1, 2015): Former SISO chair [Hussein Hamdani] suspended from federal security panel (“A Hamilton lawyer and former chair of the defunct and scandal-plagued SISO has been suspended by the federal government from his longtime position as a member of the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on National Security.”)
– CHCH (May 1, 2015): VIDEO Hussein Hamdani suspended / Archive.Today
– Radio-Canada (1 mai 2015) : VIDÉO Un membre de la table ronde transculturelle sur la sécurité est suspendu / WebArchive – Archive.Today (« [Hussein Hamdani] dit avoir été à la table ronde depuis 10 ans, que ses antécédents ont été vérifiés et qu’il a reçu divers niveaux d’habilitation de sécurité au fil des ans.»)
– IPT News (May 1, 2015): Canadian Homeland Security Adviser Suspended for Islamist Associations
– Faisal Kutty (Twitter – May 2, 2015): Faisal Kutty initiates the hashtag #istandwithhusseinhamdani on Twitter / WebArchive – Archive.Today (Kutty’s first message under the new hashtag is sent to Ingrid Mattson, Yusuf Badat, and others. It links to a public statement made by Hamdani on CBC. Kutty refers to Hamdani’s suspension as part of a #newmccarthyism by #Harperites.)
– Assma Basalamah (Twitter – May 2, 2015): ”This breeds distrust. Public safety wants to build bridges and burn them at once!” / WebArchive – Archive.Today (Under the hashtag #istandwithhusseinhamdani. Assma Basalamah is a former MSA leader at the University of Ottawa.)
– Adam Gilani (Twitter – May 2, 2015): “pointe [sic] de bascule is a ultra-right rag that has no credibility and is well known to invent info.” / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Adam Gilani (Twitter – May 2, 2015): “@faisalkutty @CaliphateCop @robertheft @TheSpec PdB targets Muslims that are empowering their community like @Philotrad & @AssmaSalahB” / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch (May 4, 2015): Canadian Homeland Security Advisor Suspended After Ties Found To Muslim Brotherhood / Hamas Organizations (GMBDW draws a parallel between the Hamdani case in Canada and the Islamist Mohamed Elibiary case with Homeland Security in the U.S. Elibiary quit his advising position with DHS after his participation to a pro-Khomeini conference in 2004 was made public.)
– Diana Rakhinshteyn Ahmed (Hamilton Spectator – May 5, 2015): Hussein Hamdani’s suspension is a clear indication of the government’s “blatant anti-Muslim bias” / WebArchive – Archive.Today (The author was involved with the MSA at McMaster in the nineties.)
– Andrew Dreschel (Hamilton Spectator – May 6, 2015): Lawyer [Hussein Hamdani] thinks suspension is ‘politically motivated’ / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Bill Dunphy (Hamilton Spectator – May 8, 2015): Ottawa sending wrong message: HamdanI / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– Law Times (Yamri Taddese – May 11, 2015): Lawyer rejects allegations of extremist links / WebArchive – Archive.Today
– IPT News (May 20, 2015): Hamas-Loving Canadian Islamist Baffled by Suspension (An article based on Hussein Hamdani’s 2004 report of his meeting with the founder of Hamas)
– Catherine Solyom (National Post – May 27, 2015): [Hussein Hamdani:] Front-line hero or extremist? (Reproduction of the paper edition)
– Catherine Solyom (Montreal Gazette – May 27, 2015): Adviser to feds [Hussein Hamdani] felled by blog [Point de Bascule] (Reproduction of the paper edition)
Advisor to Public Safety Canada with CCRS / Conseiller de Sécurité publique Canada au sein de la TRTS
– Government of Canada News Centre (February 8, 2005): Announcement of Hussein Hamdani’s appointment to the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security by Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan
– Sécurité Publique Canada : Mandat de la Table ronde transculturelle sur la sécurité / TRTS («Ce groupe offre des conseils et des perspectives au ministre de la Sécurité publique et au ministre de Justice Canada sur des questions de sécurité nationale.») (Sécurité Publique Canada – Archives PdeB)
– Public Safety Canada: Mandate of the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security / CRSS (“The group provides advice and perspectives to the Minister of Public Safety and the Minister of Justice, concerning matters of national security.“) (Public Safety Canada – Archives PdeB)
– September 2005 – Omar El Akkad (The Globe and Mail – June 9, 2006): Hussein Hamdani travelled to Pakistan with Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan and CSIS head Jim Judd in September 2005
– Sharon Boase, Dana Borcea and Barb McKay (The Spectator – June 5, 2006): Hamilton Muslim leaders react to the arrest of 17 Muslims for terrorism (Hussein Hamdani claims that public funding of an initiative similar to UK Radical Middle Way will prevent the radicalization of young Muslims in Canada.)
– Lynda Hurst
– Hussein Hamdani (AlMaghrib.org – 2009): Hussein Hamdani encourages leaders of Muslim institutions to apply for security grants from Public Safety Canada
– Hussein Hamdani (muslimlegal.ca – June 8, 2012): PowerPoint presentation to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (The meeting focused on how the government should interact/outreach with the Muslim communities. Hamdani was the leader of the Canadian Muslim Brotherhood delegation that met the Minister in Hamilton.)
– Hussein Hamdani and Naseer (Irfan) Syed (muslimlegal.ca – June 24, 2012): Report on a meeting between Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews and a Canadian Muslim Brotherhood delegation (The meeting focused on how the government should interact/outreach with the Muslim communities.)
– Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security & Society / TSAS (November 4-5, 2013): Security Policies and Community Relationships (Workshop – Hussein Hamdani was a participant.)
Involvement in outreach programs with police / Implication dans les programmes de rapprochement avec la police
– Sayyid Qutb (Milestones / chapter 10): Muslim Brotherhood ideologue stresses that bridge-building with non-Muslims only serves to bring them to Islam and never leads the other way (“The chasm between Islam and Jahiliyyah (non-Muslim world) is great, and a bridge is not to be built across it so that the people on the two sides may mix with each other, but only so that the people of Jahiliyyah may come over to Islam.”)
– CTV Television / Question Period (April 28, 2013): Hussein Hamdani and Muhammad Robert Heft discuss their relationship with the RCMP
– OnIslam.net (April 30, 2013): Kamran Bhatti and Hussein Hamdani introduce an outreach program with the RCMP in Hamilton
SISO Board Chair / Président du conseil de direction de SISO
– Canada Revenue Agency (2003): Hussein Hamdani listed as a SISO Director
– Canada Revenue Agency (2004): Hussein Hamdani listed as a SISO Director
– Government of Canada News Centre (February 8, 2005): Hussein Hamdani listed as a SISO Director (also on CRA website for 2005)
– Canada Revenue Agency (2006): Hussein Hamdani listed as a SISO Director
– Sharon Boase (The Hamilton Spectator – 10 May 2007): Publicly funded SISO sponsors Islamist Zaid Shakir’s lecture at McMaster University
– The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Report on Zaid Shakir
– Canada Revenue Agency (2008): Hussein Hamdani listed as a SISO Vice Chair
– Hussein Hamdani (The Spectator
– Hussein Hamdani (The Hamilton Spectator – October 29, 2009): Publicly funded SISO joins the Muslim Association of Canada and other Islamist organizations in sponsoring a Muslim conference
– Point de Bascule: File Muslim Association of Canada (MAC)
– Danielle Wong (The Hamilton Spectator – October 9, 2010): Citizenship and Immigration Canada cuts $5 million of SISO’s funding after audit reveals ‘insufficient internal management controls’
– Denise Davy (The Hamilton Spectator – October 15, 2010): Hussein Hamdani blames a lost e-mail to explain CIC’s $5 million cut to SISO’s funding
– The Spectator / Hamilton (November 18, 2010): SISO Board Chair Hussein Hamdani posted half of former SISO CEO Jafarpour’s bail (Former SISO CEO Jafarpour was charged and later convicted of a multi-million dollars fraud.)
– Denise Davy (The Hamilton Spectator – December 2, 2010): Yaser Haddara became SISO temporary Executive Director in mid-November 2010
– Canada Gazette (April 21, 2012): The Canada Revenue Agency informs SISO of its intention to revoke its charitable status for failure to meet parts of the Income Tax Act
– Canada Revenue Agency: SISO’s charitable status revoked for failure to file
– Joan Walters (The Spectator / Hamilton – August 30, 2013): In SISO fraud trial, Judge Ramsay tells Board Chair Hussein Hamdani that he does not understand “why you – a lawyer – wouldn’t ask the police to investigate the allegation of a crime”
– Joan Walters (The Spectator / Hamilton – September 5, 2013): Former SISO bosses guilty of fraud: Ex-CEO and finance director conspired to bilk Ottawa of millions
– Joan Walters (The Spectator / Hamilton – September 7, 2013): SISO $4-million fraud investigation started when an employee of the organization went to police
– The Spectator / Hamilton – September 7, 2013: The scramble to cover up fraud (An explanation of how the fraud was organized)
– Joan Walters (The Spectator / Hamilton – September 11, 2013): SISO Board Chair Hamdani claimed that he did not know what SISO whistle-blower meant when he told him that he had been asked to “manipulate” official SISO records, including cheques
Organizer of RIS Conventions / Organisateur des conférences RIS
– RIS 2003 – icsfp.com (January 4-5, 2003): 1st RIS Convention was organized by Ihya Foundation and sponssored by terror funding-WAMY (Hussein Hamdani is identified as a Ihya Foundation founding member on two Government of Canada websites.)
– RIS December 2004 – Sharon Boase (The Spectator / Hamilton – December 2, 2004): Hussein Hamdani identified as a RIS “key organizer”
– RIS 2007 – Wikileaks (December 18, 2007): Message sent by the US consul in Toronto to the US Department of Homeland Security (Ihya Foundation is identified as the organizer of the 6th RIS Convention in Toronto and the five previous ones.)
Ihya Foundation Director / Directeur de Ihya Foundation
– Canada News Centre (February 8, 2005): Hussein Hamdani identified as a founding member of Ihya Foundation
– Hussein Hamdani (September 1, 2003): Ihya Productions described as “an arm of the (Ihya) Foundation”
– Abigail
– Wikileaks (December 18, 2007): Message sent by the US consul in Toronto to the US Department of Homeland Security (Ihya Foundation is identified as the organizer of the 6th RIS Convention in Toronto and the five previous ones.)
– Hussein A. Hamdani, Kamran Bhatti, Nabila F. Munawar (Muslim Presence – December 1, 2008): Muslim Political Participation in Canada (Activities organized by Ihya Foundation in the early 2000s are mentioned.)
Immigration
– Point de Bascule (October 4, 2012): Edmonton / May 1980 – Muslim Brotherhood leader Ismail Faruqi highlighted the role of Muslim immigration in the Islamization of North America
– The Welland Tribune (December 30, 2009): Hussein Hamdani answers the question “why does our labour force need immigrants”?
– Jim Bronskill (The Canadian Press / Toronto Star – July 13, 2011): Hussein Hamdani considers that refugee matters must not be looked at from a national security perspective but strictly from an immigration one (“I think it would’ve made more sense if we just continued with this under our immigrant-refugee process as opposed to putting the veil of national security on these issues… When we frame these refugee matters in the vocabulary of national security, there will automatically be a reaction in the mainstream Canadian population against those very people who are coming — because they’re just seen now as threats. Why? Because Public Safety Canada is intervening.”)
The role of ideology in the radicalisation of Muslims / Le rôle de l’idéologie dans la radicalisation des musulmans
– Hicham Safieddine and Sikander Z. Hashmi (Toronto Star – July 29, 2005): Hussein Hamdani denounces Bilal Philips as an “articulate spokesperson for (the) Wahhabi doctrine” (Hamdani adds that “the Wahhabi doctrine is an inspiration for many of these wayward youths.”)
– Sharon Boase (The Hamilton Spectator – September 22, 2005): Hussein Hamdani: Mosques and Muslim groups may be radicalizing Muslim youth (Hamdani was interviewed after Riad Saloojee [CAIR-CAN] and Omar Alghabra [Canadian Arab Federation] appeared at the House of Commons Subcommittee on Public Safety.)
– Scott Deveau (The Globe and Mail – June 5, 2006): Hussein Hamdani: A “misunderstanding of Islam” fed by petrodollars leads to the radicalization of Muslims
Islamic arbitration in family matters / Arbitrage islamique en matières familiales
– Mohammad Fadel (Chicago Journal of International Law – Winter 2007): Wife beating is “lawful discipline” when the husband is well-known for piety (Complementary footnote 26: “Where the spouses disagree whether the husband exercised lawful discipline or committed abuse, the wife is presumed to be truthful unless the husband is well-known for piety.”)
– Sharon Boase (The Hamilton Spectator – May 28, 2005): Hussein Hamdani says that blocking Sharia law in Ontario would lead to a court challenge under the Canadian Charter of Rights that the government would lose
Involvement in interfaith dialogue / Implication dans le dialogue interreligieux
– Point de Bascule (August 30, 2011): The Montreal Interfaith Conference: An Appeal for Censorship (This article lists four objectives pursued by Muslim Brotherhood activists involved in interfaith dialogue, as explained by their spiritual guide Youssef Qaradawi.)
– Grant Lafleche (Standard / St. Catharines – October 13, 2001): Hussein Hamdani led the prayer before an interfaith activity at the al-Noor mosque in St. Catharines
– Michael Pukin (Canadian Jewish News – December 19, 2002): Interfaith panel at McMaster University (Participant Hussein Hamdani is identified as a Burlington lawyer and a graduate of McMaster.)
– Abigail
Member of the Islamic Society of St. Catharines / Membre de l’Islamic Society of St. Catharines
– Canada Revenue Agency (2000): The Hamdani Islamic Foundation transfers $965,296 to the Islamic Society of St. Catharines
– Rita Daly (Toronto Star – July 28, 2002): Hussein Hamdani and his brother Sallah said if Jabarah has ties to any terrorist activities it must be due to bad connections he made overseas
– Eric White (Standard / St. Catharines – July 29, 2002): Son of former Islamic Society of St. Catharines VP arrested for terrorism. (Hussein Hamdani is identified as a member of the Islamic Society. He “thinks the authorities have arrested the wrong man.”)
– Stewart Bell (National Post – January, 18, 2003): In his confession to the FBI, Mohammed Jabarah admits to role in hunt for ‘White Meat’ (Americans)
– Investigative Project on Terrorism: US v. Mohammed Mansour Jabarah (Court documents)
Muslim Students Association Leader / Leader de la Muslim Students Association
– Casey Korstanje (The Spectator / Hamilton – January 28, 1995): Hussein Hamdani: “When I was growing up, my friend’s father used to call me a terrorist” (Hussein Hamdani is interviewed as treasurer of the McMaster Muslim Students Association.)
– Hussein Hamdani (MSA National – 1996): Islamization of campus politics and the politicization of the MSA (Hussein Hamdani wrote his guide for MSA National while being an MSA leader at McMaster University.)
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– Mark Brown (The Gazette / UWO Student Daily – January 20, 1998): Hussein Hamdani disrupts a celebration of Israel dressed in an artificially blood-stained shirt (Original address – Web Archive – Archives PdeB)
– Sara Marett (The Gazette / UWO Student Daily – March 12, 1998): MSA-UWO invites Jamal Badawi to speak on campus (Original address – Web Archive – Archives PdeB)
– Michelle Demeyere (The Gazette / UWO Student Daily – June 5, 1998): MSA-UWO President Hussein Hamdani endorses Pakistan’s nuclear tests as “consistent with the Quran message to prepare for war with strength to deter the enemy” (Original address – Web Archive – Archives PdeB)
– December 1998 – David Matas (Bloody Words / Bain & Cox – 2000): David Matas reports a statement by Hussein Hamdani to the effect that “Israel is developing an ethnic bomb that kills Arabs but leave Jews unharmed” (According to Matas, this statement was part of an anti-Israel speech given by then-MSA president Hussein Hamdani at the University of Western Ontario.)
– Lena Hassan (The Gazette / UWO Student Daily – March 11, 1999): MSA-UWO President Hussein Hamdani claims that “there is no compulsion in the religion” (Original address – Web Archive – Archives PdeB)
Additional References / Références supplémentaires
– ISNA (August 31st-September 2, 2001): Program of the 38th Annual Convention (Hussein Hamdani was a speaker at the event held in Chicago.)
– ISNA Canada (May 18-19, 2002): 28th ISNA-Canada Annual Convention / Program – Speakers (Hussein Hamdani was a speaker at the event.)
– CAIR-CAN (October 20, 2002): Hussein Hamdani listed as a contact for a CAIR-CAN fundraiser
– ISNA Canada (May 21-22, 2005): List of speakers at the 31st Annual Convention (Hussein Hamdani was a speaker at the event.)
