{"id":5906,"date":"2022-08-25T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2022-08-25T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:14:12","slug":"letter-of-concern-to-minister-hussen-re-laith-marouf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/letter-of-concern-to-minister-hussen-re-laith-marouf\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter of Concern to Minister Hussen. RE: Laith Marouf"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5906\" class=\"elementor elementor-5906\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ae72bf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ae72bf\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31f6c0f\" data-id=\"31f6c0f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1acd53f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1acd53f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>August 23, 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear Minister Hussen,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties. FAIR Alberta is a recently formed chapter that supports pro-human values based on seeking understanding of others\u2019 perspectives. Our website, fairforall.org, can give you a broader sense of our identity and activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are writing out of concern for statements that Laith Marouf, senior consultant for the anti-racism program, CMAC, under Minister Hussen\u2019s portfolio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/feds-probe-disturbing-tweets-by-consultant-on-government-funded-anti-racism-project-1.6033599\">has historically made which we find to be overtly anti-semitic<\/a>. We are resolutely opposed to public expressions of hate directed at any ethnic, racial, or religious group, and feel that Mr. Marouf\u2019s expressions are inappropriate for someone working for the Canadian government. Whether personally or on behalf of FAIR, we believe that hard questions should be asked about how Mr. Marouf came to be employed or how these comments oppose the oppression of Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We acknowledge that the work CMAC endeavors to do, which is to investigate ways to elevate under-represented voices in media, is noble and worthwhile. Since there is a session in Calgary upcoming, the conflict between CMAC\u2019s intentions and Mr. Marouf\u2019s statements fall into our jurisdiction. It is our intention to have FAIR representation at this event in order to advocate for the pro-human message.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We respectfully request the honour of a response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>Rob Piotrkowski<\/p>\n<p>FAIR Alberta Co-leader<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:rob.piotrkowski@fairforall.org\">rob.piotrkowski@fairforall.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>Lee Barber<\/p>\n<p>FAIR Alberta Co-leader<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:alberta@fairforall.org\">alberta@fairforall.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/><br \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, 2022 Dear Minister Hussen, The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties. FAIR Alberta is a recently formed chapter that supports pro-human values based on seeking understanding of others\u2019 perspectives. Our website, fairforall.org, can give you a broader sense of our identity and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/alberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}