FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 05, 2008
This is Baitunnur mosque in the Castleridge community of North East Calgary. It is the largest Mosque in all of Canada.It serves the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which is a sect not recognized by most mainstream Muslim leaders and often subject to persecution in Islamic countries like Pakistan, where its illegal for them to call themselves Muslim.
With a Canadian federal election rumored for next month, the nation’s myriad ethnic voting blocks are preparing to wield their well-known power. Politicians of all parties pander shamelessly to these groups in the name of “multiculturalism,” and Canada’s self-appointed Muslim representatives know this all too well.
For now, they make up less than 3% of Canada’s population, but since 9/11, Muslims have leveraged political correctness and imaginary “Islamophobia” to position themselves as a victim group worth courting – or else.
One Canadian political blog uncovered an article in a recent newsletter for the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), the same group suing author Mark Steyn for “flagrant Islamophobia” and whichsupported the abortive attempt to introduce Sharia law to Canada.
The article advised Muslim voters that the “proper approach to selecting the best candidate is through conducting an ‘issue-based evaluation’ rooted in Muslim values” like peace and tolerance.
However, the blog found the rest of the article troubling, explaining:
…they don’t care about the ordinary Canadian or what is best for the country, they only care about increasing their power in the name of Islam.
Prior to the 2004 elections the Canadian Islamic Congress issued a report to their members telling them how to vote. They had compiled census data from Statistics Canada and realized that they could influence 101 ridings. They created a scorecard for every Federal MP based upon things like their attitudes on terrorism and Islam. Mark Steyn wrote at that time that “the very same plaintiffs suing over my analysis of the political consequences of Muslim demographics in the west themselves make explicit use of Muslim demographics to further their political goals” and here they are doing it again.
If this seems harsh, this blog may have reason to be concerned. Recently, one of its regular contributors went “undercover” to a meeting about “fighting Islamophobia” at a British Columbia mosque that brought together CIC President Mohammed Elmasry (who famously opined on national television that all Israeli citizens over age 18 were legitimate targets for terrorism), his protégé (and chief Mark Steyn persecutor) Khurram Awan, plus an author notorious for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
The speakers detailed their plans to intimidate Canada’s supposedly “Jewish” owned and operated media, using, among other tools, the country’s broken and corrupt Human Rights Commissions.
By now, people around the world have heard about how radical Muslims are already using these Human Rights Commissions to harass the likes of Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant (who reprinted the so-called Danish Mohammed cartoons and spent over $100,000 defending himself in these “kangaroo courts.”)
Other similar stories don’t get the same attention, however. One in particular has passed completely below the radar, and that’s unfortunate because it demonstrates admirable anti-dhimmitude by, of all people, the administration at a left wing Quebec university.
According to a little-known Christian news blog:
A group of Muslim students at McGill University in Montreal has filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission, because they don’t have a designated “prayer space” on the university campus. McGill’s Deputy Provost for Student Life and Learning, Morton Mendelson, says religious groups are welcome to use unoccupied classrooms or set up in buildings adjacent to campus, but because it is a secular institution, the University will not provide permanent rooms for something like this.
Despite growing awareness and outrage about radical Islam’s use and abuse of the Human Rights Commissions, this story has been ignored by the mainstream media, except for a few lines in a recent CanWest wire story celebrating Canada’s increasingly “diverse” campuses.
Likewise, news of Halifax, Nova Scotia Muslims’ demands for “reasonable accommodation” in the construction of a new public swimming pool was reported by U.S. and European outlets, but in Canada, it only garnered a single story in a local paper.
(Perhaps radical Muslims will have to cancel their campaign to intimidate the nation’s “Jewish” owned media. It’s possible that the media has already gotten the message, loud and clear.)
The new Mainland Common Center’s pool area is set to feature large windows, but Muslim women object on the grounds that the design offends Islamic rules about modesty.
A city councilor talked to Islamist Watch about the proposed solutions to the “problem”:
“To cover the pool windows with this type of automatic blind will be costly, probably in the thousands of dollars. I have asked for an estimate and [I'm] hoping we will be able to get a sponsor who will consider providing funds for these blinds, in lieu of an acknowledgment of their contribution.”
Otherwise, taxpayers will likely end up footing the bill for expensive work-arounds and re-designs. Should that occur, one wonders what other demands will be tabled next, and where.
Some Canadian Muslims, like conservative columnist Salim Mansur and liberal writer Tarek Fatah, are belatedly (and bravely) speaking out against this strategy of bullying and blackmail, and receiving threats from some of their fellow Muslims for their efforts.
Only a few days before three more Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, author Raheel Razacondemned the Taliban’s new threats to target Canadian soldiers and aid workers. She also chastised domestic extremists who “have found a home in Canada because they know they can get away with it.”
“Canadian institutions seem unwilling and unable to take action,” she added, “bungling so often that it has become a bad joke.
For example, why do we allow an Imam in Scarborough to openly flout Canadian law by performing polygamous marriages? He’s also known to recruit youth to fight a jihad in Afghanistan against our Canadian soldiers.
In Mississauga, an ultra-orthodox schoolteacher is encouraging young Muslim girls not to work, cover themselves till their eyeballs and accept polygamy. It seems that the very ideology we’re battling in Afghanistan has taken root in our back yard.
Why, others ask, are hundreds of Muslim men in Toronto allowed to collect welfare to support their polygamous “harems”? What about the sharia-approved “Dial-a-Marriages” used to get around Canadian immigration sponsorship regulations?
Why do so many Canadian Muslims feel emboldened to harass newspaper columnists, magazine publishers and, most recently, editorial cartoonists?
Part of the answer seems absurd, yet provides a perfect illustration of the law of unintended consequences. For decades, leaders in Canada’s Jewish communities used Human Rights Commissions to silence neo-Nazi groups. Now, however, the commissions are being used to intimidate Canadian Jews like Ezra Levant – whose recent criticisms of the nation’s “Professional Jews” as obsessed with the last Holocaust while ignoring the next one, must have struck a nerve.
Now even one of these groups, and one of the HRC’s most rigorous defenders, B’nai Brith Canada, is taking note. In a scathing submission to a special commission reviewing the nation’s increasingly bizarre “hate speech” prosecutions, B’nai Brith declared that these Commissions are now vulnerable abuse by “political Islam, the same ideology that has hijacked the United Nations human rights council.”
“When it comes to this particular threat to human rights, human rights commissions just don’t get it,” the B’nai Brith report reads. “Human rights commissions, like generals, are fighting the last war.”
Tarek Fatah agreed, and explained the current Islamist strategy to the National Post. Non-Muslim critics of Islam are duly condemned as “Islamophobes,” while Muslims like himself are labeled “apostates,” which he calls a “hidden death threat.”
Fatah added:
“Neither the Conservatives nor the Liberals have any interest in this. Their effort is to appease these Islamist groups. They don’t wish to offend, and therefore the Islamists can walk over and literally blackmail politicians and the liberal intelligentsia into not saying a word about it.”
With an election looming, and Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party desperate to finally win a majority government, Fatah’s observation is timely, accurate – and ultimately, depressing.
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Ralph Klein (recently retired and politically incorrect Premier of Alberta, which includes the city of Calgary) please come back and save us from these awful people!
No one will come back to help you. I f you want to save your country you have to do something – MAKE YOUR POLITICIANS REALIZE THAT THEY WORK FOR YOU AND NOT THE MUSLIMS!!!!
Here’s the whole thing:
D. C. Watson: Letter To Congress: Islamic Radicals? Or Fundamentalists?
Letter To Congress: Islamic Radicals? Or Fundamentalists?
by D. C. Watson
Office of the Honorable Peter King, United States Congressman, 3rd Congressional District (New York)
Fax: 202-226-2279
June 12, 2011
Re: Scheduled hearings on “Radicalization” of Muslims in America
Dear Congressman King,
On June 20th, 2010 a letter was written to Congress concerning the widely unpopular idea of constructing a mosque in the shadow of the Ground Zero site in New York (a plan that thoughtful Muslims have also rejected). Contained in that letter were quotes from several Islamic religious leaders (Imams) in America:
Imam Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali
Masjid Al Islam mosque, Oakland, CA
“We must implement Islam as a totality (in which) Allah controls every place… the home, the classroom, the science lab, the halls of Congress.”
Imam Abdul Alim Musa
Al Masjid mosque, Washington, D.C.
“If you don’t give us justice. If you don’t give us equality. If you don’t give us our share of America. If you don’t stay out of our way and leave us alone, we’re gonna burn America down.”
Imam Muhammad Al-Asi
Former Imam at the Washington, D.C. Islamic Center
“Now, all our imams, our public speakers, should be concentrating on militarizing the Muslim public … Only carrying arms will do this task.”
Imam Omar Shahin
Tucson, Arizona Islamic Center; President, North American Imams Federation; spokesman for the six ‘Flying Imams’
“A Muslim must try his best to abide by the rulings of Sharia (Islamic law) whenever possible as much as he can. He should not allow himself to be liable to those western laws that contradict the clear-cut Islamic rulings.”
Imam Siraj Wahhaj
Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque. Brooklyn, N.Y
“In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing left will be Islam.”
Imam Zaid Shakir
Former Muslim Chaplain at Yale University
“Muslims cannot accept the legitimacy of the existing American order, since it is against the orders and ordainments of Allah.”
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf:
“I do not believe in religious dialogue.”
A copy of this letter can be accessed here.
Polls:
Mosque at Ground Zero polling:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014737-503544.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/poll-nearly-70-of-americans-op.html
Further review of these statements show that they do not veer far at all from the following comments made by Islamic religious figures overseas or from remarks made by other prominent Muslims operating in the United States:
Imam Anjem Choudary
British Muslim cleric:
“One day the flag of Islam will fly over the White House.”
Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris
Sheikh ‘Ijlin Mosque in Gaza
“We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain.”
2) “America will collapse … we consider America to be our no. 1.”
3) “Allah will drown the little Pharaoh, the dwarf, the Pharaoh of all times, of our time, the American president. Allah will drown America in our seas, in our skies, in our land… America will be destroyed.”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8468
Abu Hamza al-Masri
Imam in Britain
“The real weapons of mass destruction are the desire for martyrdom… Half a million martyrdom shaheed is enough for Muslims to control the whole of earth forever. In the end of the day, Islam must control earth, whether we like it or not.”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-10435138-bring-jihad-to-your-own-door.do
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis
Imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca
Jews: “The scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/06/blogging-the-quran-sura-2-the-cow-verses-40-75.html
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed
Syrian-born British Muslim cleric
“We don’t make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians… Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value.”
http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2005/07/britain-terror-warning-2-months.html
Ahmad Nawfal
Jordanian who has spoken at rallies held on American soil
“If fundamentalist Muslims stand up, it will be very easy for us to preside over this world once again.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/569037/posts
Abu Bakr
Australian Muslim Cleric
“I am telling you that my religion doesn’t tolerate other religion. It doesn’t tolerate. The only one law which needs to spread, it can be here or anywhere else, has to be Islam.”
http://articles.cnn.com/2005-11-07/world/australia.terror.bakr_1_anti-terrorism-raids-jihad-abc-radio?_s=PM:WORLD
Mohamed Elmasry
President of the Canadian Islamic Congress
“Any Israeli over age 18 is a legitimate target for suicide bombers because adult Israelis were required to do military service. They are part of the Israeli army, even if they have civilian clothes.”
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/09/07/appeasing-canada%E2%80%99s-islamists/
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Omar Ahmad
Council on American Islamic Relations
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth…”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19439
Ihsan Bagby
Council on American Islamic Relations
“Ultimately, we (Muslims) can never be full citizens of this country … because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country…”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2170
Nihad Awad
Council on American Islamic Relations
“I am in support of the Hamas movement”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19439
Dr. Esam Omeish
Muslim American Society
“You have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298278,00.html
Shukri Abu Baker (Convicted of funding Islamic terrorism)
Holy Land Foundation
“I swear by Allah that war is deception… We are fighting our enemy with a kind heart… Deceive, camouflage, pretend you are leaving while you’re walking that way. Deceive your enemy.”
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/FBItiesCAIRHamas
Edina Lekovic
Muslim Public Affairs Council
From the July 1999 edition of Al-Talib, the Muslim News magazine at UCLA, when Lekovic was one of the managing editors: “When we hear someone refer to the great mujahid Osama bin Laden as a ‘terrorist’, we should defend our brother and refer to him as a freedom fighter…”
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/05/video_steve_eme.php
Sami Al Arian (Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide services to Islamic terrorists)
Former Professor, University of South Florida
“Let us continue the protests. Let us damn America. Let us damn Israel. Let us damn their allies until death. Mohammad is leader. The Qur’an is our constitution. Jihad is our path…”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/220/al-arian-victory-to-islam-death-to-israel
Hatem Bazian
University of California at Berkeley Lecturer
“Well, we’ve been watching intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don’t have an intifada in this country?”
http://www.meforum.org/1871/the-arab-israeli-conflict-debate
Ibrahim Hooper
Council on American Islamic Relations
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future…”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19439
Julio Assad Pino
Associate professor of history at Kent State University in Ohio
Pino considers homicide bombers martyrs, the U.S. Armed Forces butchers, and is or was at one time part of an Internet blog that urges readers to join the Islamic resistance. Also in a Columbus Dispatch piece, Pino described himself as the “most dangerous Muslim in America.”
http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/04/21/20060421-A1-02.html
While this issue is addressed, the dangerous and witless practice of political correctness should be switched off. Unconditionally, the American people have a right to know when any type of threat to their way of life presents itself so that they can prepare to defend it.
Is it a “tiny minority” of “radicals” who have “perverted a great world religion” that all of these leaders in the Islamic communities here and abroad represent, or are they representative of Islamic fundamentalists who are simply adhering to their ideology as it has been prescribed?
As a free society we are a tolerant people. Like everything else, tolerance has its limits, so should rigid, racist, sexist supremacist ideologues with a history of committing violent acts against innocent human beings when they don’t get their way qualify?
If the United States Congress genuinely seeks unfiltered information regarding the issue at hand, it would greatly benefit itself and the nation by shunning the overbearing nonsense dispensed by organizations like the Council on American Islamic Relations, and trading in the crocodile tears shed by the Congressman from Minnesota for the testimony of the individuals listed below, who are capable of answering any lingering questions regarding Islamic scripture, Shari’ah law, and documented historical facts:
Nonie Darwish
Brigette Gabriel
Robert Spencer
Steven Emerson
Wafa Sultan
Daniel Pipes
Walid Shoebat
Aayan Hirsi Ali
In closing, if the opportunity presents itself, please reiterate to your colleagues that this situation should not be viewed as a chance to score cheap political points, and that political affiliation aside, this is an American issue that impacts anyone who appreciates the freedoms offered here.
Respectfully,
D.C. Watson, United States
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