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The Toronto District School Board's controversial Islamic Heritage Month guidebook is facing criticism from yet another prominent advocacy organization, this time the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC).
While the organization is urging the TDSB pull the whole guide pending a full review of all its contents, they've focused their complaint on one section in the guide that promotes the Nation of Islam.
"The Nation of Islam is considered to be a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Nation of Islam officials have a documented history of antisemitic rhetoric including Holocaust denial, exaggerating the role of Jews in the slave trade and hateful conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the economy," writes the FSWC, led by CEO Avi Benlolo, in a press release.