Canada home to Islamic radicals
In November 2014, while making a
deposition before the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence,
I raised the issue of Islamic clerics using mosque sermons to attack
the foundational principles of Western civilization and liberal secular
democracy. Liberal Senator Grant Mitchell was outraged by my testimony
that at most Canadian mosques, the Friday congregation includes a ritual
prayer asking, “Allah to give victory to Muslims over the ‘Kufaar’
(non-Muslims).” In a heated exchange with me, the senator suggested I
wasn’t telling the truth, implying I was motivated by Islamophobia.
Sadly, Sen. Mitchell is not alone in such views. But neither is there
any let up in the attacks on Canadian values emanating from many mosque
pulpits and Islamic conferences hosted by radical Islamist groups. For
example, in a sermon on Friday, May 6 delivered at a mosque in Edmonton,
an imam invoked the memory of Prophet Muhammad to whip up hatred
against Israel. He declared peace accords with Israel are “useless
garbage,” and vowed “Jerusalem will be conquered through blood.”
In February, the same cleric predicted
Islam would soon conquer Rome, “the heart of the Christian state.” The
Edmonton mosque diatribe was not isolated. On May 13, just north of
Toronto, an Islamic society hosted a celebration of Iranian mass
murderer, Ayatollah Khomeini. The poster promoting the event described
Khomeini as a, “Liberator and Reformer of the Masses.” On Saturday, the
Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, banned in some countries, hosted a
conference to discuss the re-establishment of a global Islamic
caliphate. Pakistan- Canadian writer Tahir Gora went to cover the event,
but was barred from entering the hall. “They said this was a closed
door, in-camera meeting for our supporters,” Gora told me after he was
asked to leave. Fortunately, one Palestinian-Canadian woman was able to
enter the event. She shared with me some of the proceedings from inside
the gathering. “I walked into the banquet hall with approximately 100
attendees who were gender segregated. I sat next to a woman who said she
had been in Canada for 40 years. When I asked her if she felt any
disconnect between enjoying 40 years of democracy, yet supporting the
Hizb-ut-Tahrir who wanted to end it, she explained that democracy has
done nothing good to people, so she and other believers follow Allah’s
rule.
“The first speaker reminded Muslims that
they are obligated to implement Allah’s orders that fulfil the Islamic
State. It is “not permissible for us to choose’ he said, citing the
Quran. “However, he said it was necessary to win the public’s hearts and
minds; and to partner with people of power, citing examples from the
life of The Prophet. “At the end, a three-minute video was presented to
demonstrate the collective oil and natural gas production capabilities
of the Muslim world, the human capital needed to mine and process these
resources … the military power required to protect them and the types of
weapons needed to make such a military effective.” While this was
unfolding we received news that the Trudeau government, as part of its
infrastructure development program, had authorised a $200,000 grant to a
southern Ontario mosque with links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Which
begs the question: Who’s minding the store?
By Tarek Fatah, Author and Columnist, Canada
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment