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- 1 2 Calgary Herald: "Imam undercuts himself by twisting his own words - Earlier this week, Calgary Imam Syed Soharwardy spent nearly two hours with the Herald's editorial board before announcing he would withdraw his two-year-long Alberta human rights complaint against Ezra Levant, the publisher of the defunct Western Standard magazine" Archived 2015-06-22 at the Wayback Machine February 16, 2008
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- ↑ CBC: "Syed Soharwardy, Muslim cleric, issues fatwa against ISIS - Imam says group's violent ideology is violation of Islam" Archived 2015-03-12 at the Wayback Machine March 11, 2015
- ↑ CBC: "ISIS 'betraying' Muslims, says Calgary imam before hunger strike - Syed Soharwardy starting 48-hour hunger strike Friday" Archived 2015-04-03 at the Wayback Machine August 22, 2014
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