Canadian Jewish News:
Myron Love, Prairies Correspondent, Tuesday, February 14, 2012
WINNIPEG — Kasim Hafeez has seen the truth and, in an address to a largely Jewish audience at the Asper Jewish Community Campus on Feb. 6, he pulled no punches.
Wahhabism, the Saudi Arabian version of Islam, is little different than Nazism, Hafeez said.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should be facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, he said.
Anti-Zionism is code for antisemitism, he said.
The Islamic concern for Jerusalem is purely political, he said. Until the creation of Israel, Jerusalem was unimportant to most Muslims.
And often, he noted, those who claim to be pro-Palestinian are just anti-Israel.
Hafeez, 29, a British-born Muslim of Pakistani origin, knows of what he speaks.
Until just a few years ago, he was part of that Jew-hating Muslim world. He was even ready to go to Pakistan to train as a terrorist.
His worldview began to change after stumbling across a copy of Alan Dershowitz’s book, A Case for Israel. “I figured it was just Zionist propaganda,” he said of the book. “I thought I would read it and be able to refute it all.”
Instead, Hafeez found that Dershowitz’s arguments challenged all of the myths about Israel and the Jews that he grew up with. And, he said, he couldn’t find any Muslim sources who could refute Dershowitz’s points.
Wow, a righteous Muslim and Zionist. Oh God I wish more would bravely step up like this gentleman did. How refreshing for a change. This reminds me of Walid Shoebat’s epiphany, only without the conversion. Also this brings to mind a BNI blog topic about a week ago concerning Israeli Bedouins who’s family traditions include serving in the IDF. It is good to hear of such things though I still cannot quite grasp why people such as Kasim Hafeez, or even Dr. Zhudi Jasser would still practice islam given our understanding of it, but if they are genuine and sincere, and not inclined towards supremacism, then that is quite alright with me.
This might sound paranoid but, deception is the only weapon muslims really posess. A cadre of believers who vocally refute everything about jihadism, and the barbarism of the extremists would be necessary to maintain an image of muslim diversity of outlook and opinion. A quietist muslim population providing a thick canopy for their jihadist to hide in, and with which to confuse authorities.
I wish more Moslems would speak up like this, they won’t but they should.
The web site of this article is now offline.
Looks like they might be under DDOS.
Eeyore,
Yes, that’s what I think.
Here’s the text of the whole article:
He seems genuine. However, I do want to address the comments of Cameron. Yes it is possible this could be a leftist trick and what we have is the brown face that is here to prove the sightings of the moderate moslem are in fact real. My guess is that he will simply die in the swamp of muslim violence and intimidation and not be able to do his misinformation task if that is his job. So I feel that he could in fact be genuine and that if he is not genuine he will fail. However, he could also be genuine and really believe that Islam is the religion of peace. Some muzzies are totally clueless. In fact most are.
Eeyore,
I think that web the site on which the original article was hosted – the web site of The Canadian Jewish News – was taken down by hackers who, I think, were, and are, most likely, Russian or Ukrainian. The reason that I think that the site was taken down by hackers who, I think, were, and are, most likely, Russian or Ukrainian, is because I’ve experienced certain things on my blog (and, also, on my YouTube channels) which indicate that the site was taken down by hackers who were, and are, most likely, Russian or Ukrainian.
I’ve written about some of this here.
(BTW, and involved with this, I’ve mirrored the article on my blog.)