Canada's Very Own Jihadists
The Canadian Islamic Congress shouldn't have to look too far to find outright instances of Islamist jihadists despoiling the good name of Islam, from among their very own community. So why look to a writer expressing his views on the alarming rise of Islamist fascism and wreaking terror on the world stage, along with the magazine that published his little polemic as the reason the good name of Islam has been besmirched?On trial right now in the Toronto area, which is where the Canadian Islamic Congress and its president Mohamed Elmasry are stationed, are eleven members of an apprehended terror group, simpletons though they may be. Why not rail against their improvidently stupid plans to launch terror attacks against Canadian targets as giving Islam a bad name? After all, Mark Steyn and Maclean's were, reasonably, only publishing a little bit of reality and then extrapolating a bit.
Behead the prime minister of the country. Attack Parliament. "We go and kill everybody. We get victory." Simple plan, simple premise, simple outcome. Victory. Over what? The country that has succoured them? The plot was to storm Parliament Hill, do some incidental killing, take some hostages, that kind of interesting stuff. Make a name for themselves. Create terror among the population.
They were likely awkward poseurs as terrorist material, but even clumsy and stupid people have the potential to create bloody havoc. And they did, after all, take possession of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate with which to produce explosives. They did plan for and order assault weapons and ammunition, then grieved that they hadn't the wherewithal to pay for it all. And one of their members did build a radio frequency remote-controlled detonator, however inadequate it was.
They were committed to the "global fight" against Islam's oppressors. They played with the idea of martyrdom, and the honour implicit within Islam of retaliating against foreign invaders on Muslim soil. "You harm one Muslim, the whole Muslim nation has to defend that person", proclaimed the leader of the group.
Expanding further to describe other aspects of enemy identity: "If they're your enemy, they're your enemy everywhere you see them. So, if the Jews are your enemy in Israel, it doesn't mean Jews are not your enemy here. Every single Jew is your enemy." One of the group mused that the rule meant you could kill any Jewish man walking down the street.
"If the guy walking down the street says, 'Pro-Zion, pro-Zion' ... wears a big Jewish thing saying, yeah, 'Pro-Israeli state' ... OK, now you're a target" was the response. "If you are to do ... to that guy you wouldn't be held accountable like, by Allah or anything ... and you would be rewarded for it, because he is an enemy."
Amazing, isn't it? Because, in fact, that is exactly what Mohamed Elmasry, founding president of the Canadian Islamic Congress said in a television interview; that every adult Israeli is a legitimate target for revenge, as a representative of the Israeli occupying state. As a Jew, that causes me great pain. Should I not take the initiative and lodge a complaint against him with the Ontario Human Rights Commission?
What's to say that Mr. Elmasry's contention, and his very public utterances, his blog entries that speak disparagingly of "Zionists" and hatefully of Israel isn't fuelling anti-Jewish sentiment and placing the lives of Canadian Jews in direct danger? What's to say that he hasn't directly influenced the 18 - now 11 - arrested terror suspects?
Those suspects now on trial and whose leader claimed to be planning an event on a "greater scale" than the 2005 London bombings. "You do it once and you make sure they can never recover again", he said complacently. And further: "I know you might not be too down with beheadings, but it's terror, it strikes in their hearts", he told his cohorts comfortingly.
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Canada, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Friday, June 06, 2008
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