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Canadian Imam, Zijad Delic

"But Canada is not either of these. Canada is abode of peace, abode of contract. We have made social contract with Canada when we became Canadian citizens. It's a question of loyalty, whom we are loyal to first. Are we loyal to back home, or are we loyal to Canada? If we are loyal to back home, we have a problem." Zijad Delic

That's it in a nutshell. Nicely enough put. And because, although Mr. Delic denies the truth of the matter, too many Canadian Muslims are indeed 'loyal to back home' and as a result, Canada has a problem, a huge one. Consisting of those Muslims and their institutions fomenting unease and fractiousness within Canadian society, while also recruiting home-grown jihadis.

Ah, the Canadian Islamic Congress, that fine Canadian institution representing the interests of Muslim Canadians. The reputation of this group remains unreservedly on the unsavoury side. While the Government of Canada views, for example, Hamas as a terrorist group, CIC defends them as a legitimate and respectable government.

Amazing how irrelevant it is that Hamas's charter calls for the 'elimination' of the State of Israel, and the terror group has demonstrated amply its violent antipathy to the state and its Jewish population through constant rocket bombardments and martyrdom events. But that is relativism at its best, depending obviously on one's point of view.

The CIC is in close communion with other Muslim groups within the country, many of whom freely express their contempt for the Conservative-led government. The current executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress is amazed that he is considered persona non grata at government-sponsored events directed toward the Muslim community. But he is known by the company he keeps.

Nonetheless, he is dedicated, he tells the news media, to encouraging young Muslims to become an integral part of Canadian society, and to eschew any interests whatever in radical Islam.

"I'm a person who is offering a hand to my government to work with them to help them deradicalize Muslim youth if they are radicalized, to help them open the doors for Canadian Muslims to enter the system and work from within with Canadians."

Actually, that appears to be part of the problem; careful grooming of normalcy in appearance and behaviour leading to stealthy infiltration of some key government departments, like the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Department of Defence. Where it becomes relatively simple to persuade trusting insiders that such people as he pose no threat and should be welcomed with open arms.

The first home-grown terrorist in the country was employed on contract with DFAIT. There are others with links to the Muslim Brotherhood who make little secret of their un-Canadian war with the State of Israel which they continue ferociously to claim represents an illegal occupier of Arab/Muslim land.

Executive director Zijad Delic speaks of "extreme elements in the community" who view his rejection as a speaker at an event taken up by the Department of National Defence in their outreach to the Muslim community - ironically an event that the Canadian Islamic Congress itself invented: "Muslim Heritage Month" - with gleeful satisfaction.

That he, purporting to be working tirelessly on behalf of Muslim youth, to lead them toward the path of good Canadian citizenship (presumably by mounting writing contests to see who can most successfully denigrate the "Zionist entity") was shown to be

"punched down on the floor. So they are laughing at this, and we are giving them an excellent platform to spread their potential ideology. And that is why I am cautioning our government not to make these silly mistakes."

Mr. Delic claims that "Muslim identity is not a narrow-minded construct, confined to rigid and inflexible principles", and that is quite simply an amazing interpretive conclusion, albeit a useful one to the speaker. For Muslim identity is, and always has been, a narrow-minded construct; furthermore one which instructs every facet of a believer's life.

And when Mr. Delic claims his goal to be to assist Canadian Muslims to 'move beyond the orthodox view of the world', as to challenge Western principles and values and the rule of law as opposed to Sharia law which the Canadian Islamic Congress did its utmost to have installed in Ontario, and which it remains steadfastly committed to, he is rather foxily cute.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Canada, Conflict, Human Relations

posted by Pieface @ Monday, October 11, 2010