Aly Hindy

Who is Aly Hindy?

Aly Hindy is the current Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, Canada, notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians accused of terrorism.

A noted friend of the Khadr family, Hindy immigrated to Canada in 1975 after graduating in Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He spent the next four years studying at the University of Western Ontario, where he received his Doctorate in structural engineering. He worked for Stone & Webster for two years, before starting his 21-year career as a safety engineer for Ontario Hydro.

According to the 2005 interrogation of Abdullah Khadr in Pakistan, Hindy's son briefly attended the Musab al-Surri Afghan training camp in the late 1990s, however Abdullah's lawyer, Dennis Edney, has claimed that his statements were a product of Pakistani torture and should be discounted.

The director of the Canadian Islamic Congress in Toronto, Hindy was arrested by Egyptian security forces in February 2003 and held for two days before being released. Upon his return to the country in November, he was questioned for three hours at the Cairo Airport and twice brought to the State Security bureau for interviews.