Lebanon's ambassador to Canada is under fire for comments he made last week in an Arabic-language newspaper in response to the government's decision to ban Hizbullah.
In an interview with the newspaper Sada al Mashriq, Raymond Baaklini said Canada outlawed the Lebanese resistance group last month because of pressure from a "Zionist party" that he said "controls 90% of the Canadian media."
He also advised that Canadians travelling in the Arab world should not wear Canada T-shirts anymore, and said he had been told that "Canadian police always suspect every man with a beard and every woman with a veil."
Baaklini told later The National Post his remarks were meant for an Arabic audience and he might have phrased them differently if he were addressing English readers. (Albawaba.com)
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