Category Archives: Islam in the Americas
“I am not surprised. This neighbourhood has changed”
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Toronto Yeshiva Defaced with Anti-Semitic Graffiti
Israel national News:
vandalism
Israel News photo: Flash 90
Students at the “Mishkan HaTorah” Yeshiva in Toronto, Canada, were shocked when they arrived in the early hours of the morning to find that the building was covered with anti-Semitic graffiti.
This is the second time in a short period of the time that the building has been defaced.
During the last incident, police who arrived the scene reportedly did not adequately apprehend the perpetrators who were trying to instill fear among the students.
Yeshiva officials filed a request with local police forces to increase security around the premises in order to strengthen students’ sense of security and prevent further attacks.
In November 2011, the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto was sprayed with the words “Islam will rule” and a swastika was painted on the building’s exterior.
The Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy said at the time that measures had been implements to increase the security at the synagogue.
“We will remain vigilant in the wake of this disturbing and offensive event,” Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Canadian Jewish organization, said at the time.
Minister Jason Kenney released this statement:
Civilizational Jihad in Tennessee
Gates of Vienna:
Below are excerpts from the newsletter sent out today by the Tennessee Council for Political Justice.
In its ongoing mission to radicalize Muslims young and old in Tennessee, the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN) led by Imam Mohamed Ahmed, is sponsoring an event at Vanderbilt University featuring two American converts to Islam (or as they prefer to call them, “reverts”), Zaid Shakir and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, co-founders of Zaytuna College, an unaccredited Islamic postsecondary school in the U.S.
True to form, Shakir who says no Muslim can be a terrorist, is a popular speaker with U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations such as CAIR, ISNA and the Muslim Students Association. He professes to the same end goal of the Muslim Brotherhood — to see the “day in which America is a Muslim country ruled by Islamic law.” [pdf] And consistent with the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan as laid out in its 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, he sees organizing Muslims in this country as the way to accomplish this objective.
He understands the political leverage gained by remaining separate and apart from American society by claiming a religious-based moral superiority. He reinforces this by asserting [pdf] that “American society ‘is sinful and constitutes open rebellion against Allah.’“
Cut through the veneer of Shakir’s co-presenter Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, and it’s the same Muslim Brotherhood endgame — “slaves to Allah” [pdf] will cure the ills of America because as they know, slavery to “Islam is the solution.” His 1996 speech to the sharia-for-America Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA — see Newsletter #41) makes his true agenda perfectly clear:
More signs of the presence of Hezbollah
Original translation by Iz-M
From Yucatan.Com
Support in Mérida for people presumably associated with islamists
Labboun Rafic Mohammed, the Muslim cleric allegedly linked to Hezbollah and a fugitive from U.S. justice who was arrested in Merida on September 8, 2012, arrived in Yucatan services through a network of Lebanese government officials in collusion with Belizeans, who gave him a fake passport from that country.
As we reported at the time, upon his arrest by officers of the Public Security Secretariat Yucatecan government, Labboun exhibited a Belizean passport in the name of Wilhelm Dyck, a Mennonite child born in that country in February 1976 who died two months later. A driver’s license was issued in the same name.
Yesterday we reported that Razur Antonio Elias, the director of the Mexican Drug Observatory investigating Islamist organizations associated with Mexican drug traffickers and their possible ramifications in the Yucatan Peninsula, said that this group of people offered Belizean passports for $ 25,000, with a birth certificate and fake driver’s license. In addition to these documents, the group organizes the transfer of these people with forged documents through Mexican territory to the U.S. border, where the city of Merida, it seems, is key to the logistics.
The detention of a Lebanese with a Belizean passport has set off alarm bells. Although Labboun Rafic Mohammed, arrested in September in Mérida, is a radical Islamist hardliner and a er of Ayatollah Khomeini, the U.S. authorities had failed to demonstrate his links with Hezbollah terrorist activity, until recently. Tracks New data from this case, however, point to the possible presence of the Islamic group backed by Iran and Syria in some areas of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Islam Awareness Week in Canada
Pay close attention. This could replace hockey night in Canada soon.
76 Per Cent Of Subjects Being Investigated For Citizenship Fraud Come From Muslim Nations
From Blazing Cat Fur:
NB Google translate: “In September last year, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced that more than 3,100 people were targeted for investigation for fraud citizenship. So far, the ministry remained discreet about the origin of these alleged fraudsters.”
CSIS notes ‘insider threat’ in Islamist extremism
CBC:
Canada’s spy agency sees the “insider threat” as a rising security risk for Canadians at home and abroad, according to a secret document obtained by CBC News.
Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdul Malek Sallal said Islamist militants who attacked an Algerian gas plant last week included at least one Canadian — and a threat assessment report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Agency points to an upward trend of domestic Islamist extremism.
“Small groups (of) Canadians will continue to be inspired by the narrative and seek to engage in extremist activities both at home and abroad,” reads The Threat Environment to 2025 report obtained by Power & Politics under the Access to Information Act.
The assessment outlines global and domestic threats — and what is driving those trends, from energy and Arctic resources to geopolitical conflicts and the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The report notes that CSIS has a number of key regional conflicts and failing states it’s keeping an eye on, including North and Western Africa where places like Mali and Algeria have been in the spotlight
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‘Canadian’ Jailed for terrorism 14 years
H/T EDL Buck
Canadian reported to be among Algerian hostage-takers
I wish the CBC would put ‘Canadian’ in single quotes. No one who would work with Islamic terrorists to enforce sharia, destroy equal rights for women, work for the instigation of a new Holocaust etc. in any way shares Canadian values. Citizenship is not just an accident of geography, nor is it what papers you may hold in your pocket.
H/T Taffy in Canada
CBC.Ca:
Militants took over remote Sahara gas plant in Algeria on Wednesday
The Associated Press
Posted: Jan 18, 2013 3:14 AM ET
Last Updated: Jan 18, 2013 1:30 PM ET
The Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria was raided by Islamist militants on Wednesday. (Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix/Associated Press)
Algeria security concerns3:40
Nearly 100 foreigners freed: Algerian news service2:32The Canadian government says it’s aware of published reports that the Islamic militants who seized scores of hostages at a remote Algerian gas plant may include a Canadian.
In a report Thursday, Mauritania’s ANI news agency said the hostage-takers came from Algeria, Canada, Mali, Egypt, Niger and Mauritania.
“We are aware of reports that a Canadian may have been involved in the hostage-taking in Algeria,” Department of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Chrystiane Roy said.
“We are pursuing all appropriate channels to seek further information and are in close contact with Algerian authorities,” Roy told CBC News.
Algeria’s state news service reported Friday that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped at the remote Algerian plant by Islamic militants had been freed.
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Charges dropped against Muslim in the US on terror charges
“His father is still behind bars facing very similar charges”
H/T Richard
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Canadian Missing In Afghanistan Had A Terror Tie
H/T Dymphna
Buzzfeed
Media coverage of the disappearance of an American/Canadian couple in Afghanistan has so far left out an important detail: the identity of the husband, identified in the American press simply as “Josh” because of the wife, Caitlan Coleman’s family wish to protect his privacy.
Now Canadian media outlets have named Josh as Joshua Boyle, and his real identity throws a new and strange element into the story: Boyle’s ex-wife is Zainab Khadr, whose father has been linked to Al-Qaeda and whose brother, Omar Khadr, the only Canadian citizen ever held in Guantanamo Bay.
“Canadians may remember Boyle as the former husband of Zaynab Khadr, the once outspoken sister of Omar Khadr who spent a decade in Guantanamo Bay before his transfer to Canadian custody this fall,” the Toronto Star wrote on December 31 when the news of the couples’ disappearance broke.
“He later worked as a Khadr family ‘spokesperson’ — helping organize Zaynab Khadr’s Parliament Hill hunger strike in the fall of 2008 to raise awareness of her brother’s case in Guantanamo,” the article continues. This chart from The Globe and Mail maps out the connections between the Khadr and Boyle families.
Rita discovered this. It is small wonder why comments are disabled on this video now that we know the connections. They ask for compassion for their kin that those same kin would never show to Canadians. In fact they despise us and work 3 shifts to see us dead or disenfranchised.
2 Pakistanis in court for major terrorist plot
Western U in Ontario wants to replace the 1 newspaper office with a 2nd ‘multi faith’ prayer room. MSA
The newspaper is 100 years old and for reasons no one quite understands, is being forced out of its ancient offices to make room for a second prayer room, quite obviously for Muslims. Yet this is a university, not a mosque. It seems that universities across the Western world have utterly lost the basic requirements for their existence. Perhaps the time has come to close them and start a new system with less public funding and stronger emphasis on academics and Greek thought.
For those who are not familiar, it is very important to understand who the MSA actually are.
H/T Grace
National Post:
‘Campus press freedom weakening’: Student council reportedly wants to replace newsroom with multi-faith prayer room
First, copies of The Gazette started disappearing from newsstands, then the student government reportedly demanded to sit in on editorial meetings, and now in what Canada’s only daily student paper is calling the latest crackdown on “campus press freedom,” Gazette staff are being turfed out of their offices to make way for a prayer room.
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“Given some of the issues that we’ve been undergoing in the last nine months, it leads me to strongly suspect that [this eviction] is about something else,” said Gloria Dickie, editor in chief of the University of Western Ontario-based student paper, The Gazette.
Ottawa teen pleads not guilty in fatal stabbing outside Gatineau bar
H/T Grace
Check out the family history on this guy. His community is acting like he is a hero. I wonder why. He murdered another boy for trivial reasons. What could possibly make his family and community rally around him like that?
The Ottawa Citizen:
OTTAWA — Sheldon O’Grady and another young man were arguing inside Gatineau’s Club Addiction Friday night, their arms gesturing wildly and their booming voices competing with the dance bar’s pulsing music.
That’s when security asked them to step outside, club owner Paul Martineau told the Citizen.
“They were not forced out — they were asked to come outside,” Martineau said. “It seemed to be resolving itself. Then more people gathered around and it fuelled the fire. It ended up as a fight out in the street.”
Martineau is still trying to comprehend why the argument ended with such violence: 18-year-old O’Grady lying fatally wounded in a pool of blood down the street from the crowded bar.
The club owner offered his “deepest sympathies” to O’Grady’s family.
“They’re 18 years old — what kind of issues can you have to start stabbing someone?” he said. “I’m a little emotionally disturbed by this, too.”
Charged in the slaying is Mourad Louati, 18, who reported to Gatineau police on Saturday with his lawyer, Joseph Addelman.
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From the Ottawa Sun:
Family and friends gathered at a Gatineau courthouse Monday to support accused murderer Mourad Louati, whose brother is a convicted killer.
Louati, wearing a plaid green shirt and sneakers, glanced at more than a dozen supporters several times but said nothing during his brief appearance.
He is accused of the second-degree murder of Sheldon O’Grady, an Algonquin Thunder soccer star who police found bleeding to death on a sidewalk outside Club Addiction in Hull early Saturday morning.
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