(Juno News) Canada’s national security watchdog review is being used to pressure the government to curtail or abolish the unit responsible for monitoring terror-financing risks within the charitable sector on the grounds that its work constitutes “systemic Islamophobia.”
The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency released its report earlier this month following a two-year investigation into the CRA’s Review and Analysis Division. The review found that between 2009 and 2022, 67 per cent of RAD’s completed audits involved charities identified as Islamic and 19 per cent involved Sikh charities.
It stated that some audits were launched “even though there was no clear risk of terrorist funding” and that the CRA lacked adequate safeguards to detect or prevent bias.
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