Islamophobia card played in 3… 2… 1…

Via CBC:

Mayor Brian Bowman is calling for the removal of U.S. activist Linda Sarsour from a speaking engagement planned for Winnipeg on Friday.

The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg and the Canadian Muslim Women’s Institute had booked Sarsour, one of the co-chairs of the Women’s March, to speak at an event called Sorry Not Sorry: Unapologetically Working for Social Justice, marking the council’s 100th anniversary.

The event had been scheduled for April 26 at the Seven Oaks Performing Arts Centre at Garden City Collegiate. It was then rescheduled for the Ukrainian Labour Temple.

Bowman’s office issued a statement Tuesday morning calling for Sarsour’s removal from the event.

“Mayor Bowman does not feel it is appropriate to provide this individual a public platform to further propagate anti-Semitic views and hate,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

At city hall on Tuesday afternoon, Bowman said many groups made the same request to the social planning council and said he met with the social planning council privately.