The Salaheddin Islamic Centre is a mosque located in the Scarborough district of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada noted for its outspoken

Imam Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, ser ...

Aly Hindy Aly Hindy is the Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada once called "Toronto's million-dollar radical mosque” by the ''National Post''. Career Hindy immigrated to Canada in 1975 after graduating in Engineering from ...

. Since Aly Hindy took over the leadership of the Centre in 1997, Salaheddin has transformed from a small mosque to become a full centre with so many facilities and programs. Beside offering regular prayers, lectures & Conferences, Salaheddin Centre is assisting the disadvantaged and the destitute by offering a host of services including full-time elementary and High school, Marriage and counselling services, food bank, Youth programs; and funeral service along with other activities that seek to improve people's lives. One of its key founders was Hassan Farhat, Shephard, Michelle and Tonda MacCharles.

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, "CSIS say Scarborough mosque founder linked to Al-Qaeda", March 9, 2005 but he was made

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by the mosque's administrators and forbidden from continuing to hold any position in the facility; although he was allowed to return for worship. A number of its worshippers have been accused of ties to terrorism, including

Ahmed Khadr Ahmed Said Khadr ( ar, أحمد سعيد خضر; March 1, 1948 – October 2, 2003) was a Canadian citizen who began working in Afghanistan in the 1980s. There he has been described as having had ties to a number of militant and Mujahideen ...

who ran a charity named Health and Education Project International that used to attend the mosque and allegedly funneled money to Afghan training camps. Brothers Saeed and Masoud Rasoul, whose father was a prayer leader at the mosque, later went missing in Iraq, believed to have fought for Ansar al-Islam, possibly at the urging of Farhat. Following the

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, it emerged that

Fahim Ahmad Fahim Ahmad (born August 10, 1984) is one of 11 people convicted in the 2006 Toronto terrorism case. He was a ringleader in the group. He was 21 years old at the time of arrest, and married with two children. Life Fahim Ahmad was born in Afghanista ...

and a number of other suspects were members of the mosque. During the bail Hearing of

Abdullah Khadr Abdullah Ahmed Said Khadr ( ar, عبد الله أحمد سعيد خضر; born April 30, 1981) is a Canadian citizen who is the oldest son of the late Ahmed Khadr. He was captured in Pakistan in 2004 and returned to Canada in December 2005. T ...

in August 2008, the Crown attacked the credibility of the mosque — although judge Trotter dismissed the suggestion, referring to testimony from RCMP officer Tarek Mokdad who agreed it was not reasonable to suggest the mosque supported terrorism.

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* {{Islam in Canada Mosques in Toronto Islamic organizations based in Canada Organizations based in Toronto Buildings and structures in Scarborough, Toronto

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