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EXCLUSIVE: Legacy media silent as pro-Sharia imam kicks off Canadian tour
Establishment figures have been completely silent about the Canadian tour of a Salafi preacher who touts an extreme anti-Western ideology to his followers.
MELANIE BENNET, TRUE NORTH.
JUL 31

Source: Instagram (Islamic Relief Canada)

While legacy media and progressive politicians have loudly condemned Christian musician Sean Feucht for his Biblical beliefs on gender and sexuality as he tours Canada, establishment figures have been completely silent about the Canadian tour of a Salafi preacher who touts an extreme anti-Western ideology to his followers.
Imam Ustadh Abu Tamiyyah will begin a national tour on July 31 with support from Islamic Relief Canada, whose parent organization has been accused of alleged links to terrorism.
Abu Tamiyyah preaches a fundamentalist Salafi interpretation of Islam that promotes Sharia, demonizes Western ideals and Christianity. The radical imam’s “End of Times” tour will hit major cities including Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and elsewhere.

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To date, there has been no coverage of Abu Tamiyyah’s upcoming tour by the legacy media or his publicly expressed views.

The organization supporting Abu Taymiyyah’s tour is part of Islamic Relief Worldwide, a charity network with branches in over 40 countries that has faced allegations from groups like the Middle East Forum of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Although Islamic Relief denies the allegations, critics have flagged a pattern of association and statements that have drawn significant international scrutiny, including from the European Parliament, which has reviewed Islamic Relief’s operations due to political concerns. Islamic Relief is also banned in Israel and in 2014, the United Arab Emirates designated the group as a terrorist organization.

True North reached out to Abu Tamiyyah and Islamic Relief Canada to provide them with an opportunity to provide a comment and clarify past remarks or activities but did not receive a response.

The Middle East Forum has described Islamic Relief Worldwide as “one of the most important Islamist financial institutions in the world,” and noted that its founders were “prominent members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”

While Islamic Relief continues to operate with UN partners and within Canada, concerns over the charity’s leadership history and patterns of engagement remain. According to a recent report on Islamic extremism in Canada from The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood frequently present themselves as harmless in public while expressing extremist rhetoric in private.

Abu Taymiyyah, a Yemeni-born British citizen, regularly preaches anti-Western rhetoric to his many followers, including youth. According to B’nai Brith, he is known for “anti-Christian, anti-Western tirades” and warnings that Muslims who adopt Western lifestyles run afoul of Islam. In lectures advocating the virtues of Sharia law, he has repeatedly condemned liberal democracy, arguing that participation in man-made legal systems constitutes idolatry.

Abu Taymiyya stated that Muslims in the West should avoid integrating into a liberal society. “Your life must be governed by Sharia, not deceptive Western ideals,” he urged in a sermon.

The rejection of Canadian secular democracy mirrors a broader fundamentalist rejection of integration and pluralism.
Although the Canadian legacy media has repeatedly vilified Feucht for his Biblical views on gender and marriage, Abu Taymiyya has received no negative legacy media attention for alleged comments linking homosexuality to pedophilia.

Abu Taymiyyah has also been outspoken against women’s rights activism. In multiple lectures, he has characterized feminism as a “Western ideology” incompatible with Islam. “Feminism compromises a Muslim’s Tawheed,” he has claimed, framing women’s rights activism as a deviation from true faith.

His teaching stresses a wife’s duty of total obedience to her husband, in line with Salafi fundamentalism. The views are dismissive of modern egalitarian marriage and reject notions of gender equality in favour of patriarchal control.
In a UK speaking tour earlier this year, he appeared alongside other preachers with extremist reputations. One Ummah was accused of hosting French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, who often portrays Jews as a hostile force scheming against the Muslim community, echoing conspiracy themes common in Islamist propaganda. He has publicly criticized Muslims who engage in interfaith work with Jews or Christians, dismissing efforts at Abrahamic coexistence.

The UK tour also included Australian cleric Mohammed Hoblos, who has himself been barred from entering Germany and Holland over hate speech. In one notorious sermon, Hoblos declared that missing a single prayer is “worse than being a murderer, rapist, or pedophile.” British politicians condemned the joint appearances, with Shadow Secretary Chris Philip warning: “Freedom of speech does not walk hand-in-hand with freedom for extremist Islamist clerics to come to this country and further their attempts to undermine our society.”

Despite concerns about ties to extremism, Abu Taymiyyah’s Canada tour has attracted little political or media pushback. This silence contrasts sharply with the treatment of Christian preacher Sean Feucht, whose revival tour drew national outrage and event cancellations over his association with MAGA and Christian nationalism in the United States.
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