I have called the Hate Crime Unit of the Mississauga Police Department, and
cc'd Jeffrey to inform the Police Department this is happening this weekend.
If anyone in Toronto,, can get a protest together,, contact me,, and I'll coordinate with Jeffey @ R.E.A.L. to help organize.
Jeffrey is preparing a mailing with more on this. I'll post the minute I receive.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir to hold first public conference in Mississauga, Ontario on this Friday, July 31.
Are there others who would protest Hizb ut-Tahrir in Canada?
This could be a great opportunity for R.E.A.L. Canada to act in public protest in support of freedom and democracy.
See our Chicago protest at:
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/chicagos-moment-of-freedom/
Is there anything I can do to help?
Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty
http://www.realcourage.org/
Email: realpublic@earthlink.net
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Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference in Canada - July 31
http://www.torontomuslims.com/events_display.asp?ID=9232
Type: Political
Title: Open House with Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Date (mm/dd/yyyy):7/31/2009
Time: 6:30PM to 8:30PM
Registration: Free Admission
Suitability: Men, Women, Youth
Contact Info: info_mht_ca@yahoo.ca
Place: Frank Bean Lounge, Mississauga Valley Community Center, 1275 Mississauga Valley Blvd, Mississauga, ON, L5A 3R8
Comments:
The members of Hizb-ut-Tahir in Canada invite the Muslim community to
an open question session on issues of importance to the Ummah,
including the re-establishment of Islam as a way of life, the return of
the Khilafah Rashida and the role of the Muslim community in Canada.
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At the Chicago HT conference, HT handed out brochures "freedom,
democracy, Human Rights, pluralism, and the rule of law" (page 24) and
defends the death penalty for "apostates" - who leave Islam (pages 63
and 68).
Wouldn't such statements on calling for the death penalty for
"apostates" fall under the "Hate Propaganda" section of the Criminal
Code of Canada (Sections 318 and 319, as amended by C-250)?
Or
would Canada believe that HT has the right to call for the murder of
those who change their faith as "(b) if, in good faith, the person
expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a
religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-250
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Hizb ut-Tahrir Debuts in Canada
By Madeleine Gruen
Later
this month, the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Canada will host a
conference in Mississauga to discuss the establishment of a Caliphate.
The conference announcement acknowledges the presence of Hizb ut-Tahrir
in Canada for the first time publicly; indicating that, like Hizb
ut-Tahrir America (HTA), it may have recently transitioned into the
second stage of its three-stage strategy. (For more on the method of
Hizb ut-Tahrir, please see my previous article, linked here).
Branches of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) worldwide are hosting Khilafah
conferences this month as part its "Rajab Campaign." Rajab, on the
Islamic calendar, is the month of the fall of the Ottoman Empire; or,
as HT views it, the anniversary month of the destruction of the
Khilafah.
The announcement for the Mississauga conference
refers to the hosts as "the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Canada" rather
than as "Hizb ut-Tahrir Canada," a moniker that would be consistent
with the names of the other HT branches around the world. Also, the
venue for the conference is smaller than HTA's Chicago-area conference.
HTA conference-goers filled the Grand Ballroom at the Oak Lawn Hilton
for the full-day affair. The Canadian conference is booked in a lounge at the Mississauga Community Center for only two hours in the evening of July 31st. According to the center's web site,
the Frank Bean Lounge (the room booked for the meeting) seats only 40
people. The HT conference organizers have described the meeting as an
"open question session on issues of importance to the Ummah, including
the re-establishment of Islam as a way of life, the role of the
Khilafah Rashida, and the role of the Muslim community in Canada."
That the Canadian branch refers to itself as "Hizb ut-Tahrir in
Canada" may signify that there are too few adherents to warrant the
official title "Hizb ut-Tahrir Canada." Certainly, the scale of the
Canada event shows that the group is far smaller and perhaps more
loosely organized than the US-based branch. It may also mean that the
Canadian branch may fall under the authority of a larger branch
elsewhere; possibly even HTA.
Mohammad Malkawi, a resident of the US who acted as HTA's
spokesperson to the media at Sunday's conference in Oak Lawn, and who
delivered the keynote address, has traveled to Canada to deliver
speeches at universities and at mosques in the province of Ontario. For
example, in March 2007, Malkawi gave a speech titled "Islam & Contemporary World Affairs" at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Also in 2007, Malkawi delivered a lecture at a mosque in Hamilton.
The content of these lectures were based entirely on the ideology of
HT, although Malkawi did not openly acknowledge his affiliation with
HTA at that time. These events, and others, likely indicate that
Malkawi has an established relationship with the members of HT in
Canada.
For more information about HTA, please see my article from the Jamestown Foundation.
For further background on HT, please see Zeyno Baran's research, linked here.
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