(National Post) A planned conference by a radical Islamic group that caused outrage and security concerns has been cancelled a day after the federal government said it was considering declaring the organization a terrorist group.
Late on Monday, federal Minister of Public Safety David McGuinty issued a statement saying Hizb ut-Tahrir’s history of “glorifying violence and promoting antisemitism and extremist ideology” and supporting terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah “are entirely contrary to Canadian values,” and asked them to scrap their conference, scheduled for this weekend, while security and intelligence agencies assessed whether the group should be listed as an official terrorist entity.
About eight hours later, a message was posted to the conference’s Facebook page: “Hizb ut Tahrir Canada hereby announces, with regret, the cancellation of the Khilafah Conference 2025. This decision was necessitated by circumstances that were beyond our reasonable control.” Promotional material about the conference and its agenda of speakers have been scrubbed.
