Canada's Moderate Muslims Want Government Protection From Fundamentalist Threats

Farzana Hassan, president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, has written Ontario's Attorney General asking him to investigate "thinly veiled death threats" made by fundamentalist Muslims against moderate Muslims. The report yesterday by CanWest News Service explains that statements charging moderates are anti-Islam are understood within the Muslim community to be charges of apostasy that are punishable by death. The Muslim Canadian Congress says that labeling a Muslim as anti-Islam or an apostate should be considered a hate crime.