Category Archives: Islam in the Americas

Mounties apologized for Ramadan terror arrests

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From The Toronto Sun:

OTTAWA – As RCMP investigators searched through homes, computers and the seized equipment of three terror suspects arrested at the end of August, the RCMP’s community outreach office in Ottawa was calling an emergency meeting of the cultural diversity consultative committee to apologize to local Muslims.

“To show support to our Muslim brothers and sisters during RAMADAN, there will be no food or drink during this most important meeting. This meeting is for one hour only, in order to observe prayer time and the breaking of the fast during RAMADAN,” wrote Cpl. Wayne Russett.

The committee, especially Cpl. Russett, went into high gear after the arrest of Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh and Misbahuddin Ahmed in Ottawa’s west end on Aug. 25. The two men, along with Khurram Syed Sher, were charged with several terrorism-related offences in a plot the Mounties say was aimed at launching a terrorist attack in Canada and supporting terrorism abroad.

At the Aug. 26 meeting, one day after the terror bust, RCMP and Ottawa police officials apologized that arrests had taken place during Ramadan.

In the days after the arrests, Cpl. Russett held more than a dozen meetings with Muslim groups in Ottawa including visits to mosques, community centres and several meals to break the Ramadan fast. Continue Reading →

Hijab-wearing robber hits Ottawa bank

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For the non Ottawa resident, this bank was in an area highly culturally enriched by Somali’s.

Eeyore

From CBC News

City’s 4th robbery involving use of the Muslim religious headscarf

Last Updated: Friday, December 31, 2010 | 10:37 AM ET Comments64Recommend25

CBC News

Ottawa police are investigating a series of bank robberies by a man or men wearing a hijab.

The latest incident, on Thursday afternoon, occurred when a man in the headscarf worn by some Muslim women robbed a bank at Pinecrest Mall in the city’s west end.

Const. Katherine Larouche said a man, wearing a dark blue hijab covering his mouth and nose, and a long dark blue robe, handed a Scotiabank teller a note around noon, demanding money.

The suspect fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash. No weapon was seen and there were no injuries.

The suspect is described as a dark-skinned male, about five-foot-10, with a slim build, dark eyes and bushy eyebrows. He spoke English with a slight accent. Continue Reading →

Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood

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The Telegraph:

President Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

By Andrew Gilligan and Alex Spillius in Washington 8:00PM BST 08 Oct 2009

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir’s national women’s officer, Nazreen Nawaz.

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular “man-made law” and the West’s “lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism”.

They called for Sharia Law to be “the source of legislation” and said that women should not be “permitted to hold a position of leadership in government”.

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that “promiscuity” and the “breakdown of traditional values” were what Muslims admired least about the West.

She said: “I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media. Continue Reading →

City of L.A. goose steps to Islamic narrative

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Check this article by Weasel Zippers. Infuriating is one word for it. Chasing bad legislation with worse legislation would be close to the mark and why I am against a burka ban. Asking governments to solve problems they created by bad, freedom destroying legislation with more of the same creates a number of possible results none of which, is a solution to the initial problem. In any case, expect this kind of CAIR promoted legislation in a town near you.

Somali Islamist insurgents threaten US attack

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Yahoo News:

By MOHAMED SHIEKH NOR, Associated Press Mohamed Shiekh Nor, Associated Press – 1 hr 29 mins ago

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A leader of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency threatened to attack America during a speech broadcast Monday.

“We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country,” said Fuad Mohamed “Shongole” Qalaf.

Al-Shabab has not yet launched an attack outside Africa but Western intelligence has long been worried because the group targeted young Somali-Americans for recruitment. About 20 have traveled to Somalia for training and at least three were used as suicide bombers inside Somalia. Al-Shabab holds most of southern and central Somalia and has the support of hundreds of foreign fighters, mostly radicalized East Africans. Continue Reading →

AQAP Banned by Canada

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Here is a CTV clip of this policy. But I have to say, I watched this clip and three more about the arrest of a dozen men in the UK who are alleged to be planning a terror attack on England. Yet none of these four clips mention Islam or Muslims. In one, they ruminated as to the origins of these men as Bangladeshis or no, as if somehow that was a factor. To the best of my knowledge, Bangladesh is not at war with the UK.

The other clips are all up at www.ctv.ca/news

Ontario Appeals Court doubles sentence for terrorist Khawaja, making clear distinction between terrorism and other crimes

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Court doubles Khawaja’s sentence

By Ian Macleod, Ottawa Citizen

December, 17, 2010

OTTAWA – Ontario’s highest court has more than doubled the 2009 prison sentence handed to convicted Ottawa terrorist Momin Khawaja, the first Canadian convicted under the Anti-terrorism Act, and increased the sentences of three men convicted in the so-called Toronto 18 terror plot.

In a stinging decision released today, the three-judge panel imposed what amounts to a 24-year sentence on Khawaja, overturning the 15-year sentence Ottawa trial judge Douglas Rutherford imposed on him for his role in a 2004 al-Qaeda inspired plot to bomb public sites in and around London, England. Rutherford gave Khawaja, then 29, credit for the five years he spent in pre-trial custody, reducing his term to 10.5 years.

Even so, the defence appealed the sentencing as too harsh and asked that he be freed based on time served. Crown prosecutors cross-appealed, seeking a tougher sentence.

The appeal court’s decision includes a life term on one of six charges – Rutherford initially imposed a four-year term on the same offence – with no chance of parole for at least 10 years.

Khawaja’s lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, told a news conference at his downtown Ottawa office that he will urge his client, who is in a supermax prison north of Montreal, to appeal Friday’s decision to the Supreme Court.

The court’s decision also overturned Rutherford’s striking down as unconstitutional the essential section of the Act requiring authorities to prove terrorism offences are motivated for political, religious or ideological reasons.

The decision means there is once again be a clear legal distinction between terrorism and other crimes. Continue Reading →

Stockholm Bomber’s Mosque Website Links To Extremist Imam…Funny so does the Islamic Information Society of Calgary

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From Blazing Catfur. It seems that the Calgary Islamic centre has links to the same people the Stockholm bomber had.

“Preachers at the Luton Islamic Centre told last week how they had tackled Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm last weekend, over his extremist views. However, the centre’s website carries a link to a lecture by Dr Bilal Philips, a Muslim preacher who was barred from entering Britain by the home secretary in July because of his extremist views….

“His previous speeches include claims that there is no such thing as rape in marriage and that the death penalty is an option for punishing homosexuals and adulterers. The preacher was banned from Australia in 2007 over his “support for extremist Islamic positions” and has, in the past, admitted he is on the US blacklist that bans extremists.”

Please click on over to Blazing to get the whole story. Blazing Cat fur is one of the few genuine journalists left in this country. They actually investigate the facts and reveal them even if not fashionable or in line with the Frankfurt School, Marxist dogma of the rest of Canada. We are lucky to have them.

More than 100 Arab Christians in Canada named on Al Qaida-affiliated website

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From Yahoo Canadian News:

VANCOUVER – More than 100 Canadian-Arab Christians are listed on an al-Qaida affiliated website, apparently targeted because of their alleged role in attempting to convert Muslims.

Some of those named say concerned Canadian intelligence officials have contacted them.

The Shumukh-al-Islam website, often considered to be al-Qaida’s mouth piece, listed pictures, addresses and cell phone numbers of Coptic Christians, predominantly Egyptian-Canadians, who have been vocal about their opposition to Islam.

In a forum on the website, one member named Son of a Sharp Sword, says “We are going to return back to Islam and all of the Mujahedeen (holy warriors) will cut off their heads.”

Three pages of the fundamentalist, Arabic-language website titled “Complete information on Coptics” sets to “identify and name all of the Coptics throughout the world who hope to defame Islam,” The website calls the Coptic Christians living abroad “dogs in diaspora,” a derogatory reference in Arabic. Continue Reading →

Muslims harrass Montreal shoe shop for selling Israeli shoes

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Below the article, is a first hand account of someone who went there today to buy shoes. A fellow known to this blog’s mother in fact. Thanks for the extra info M.

From Montreal Gazzette:

MNA Amir Khadir unapologetic for picketing store that sells Israeli-made shoes

Photograph by: Dave Sidaway, Gazette file photo

Québec solidaire leader Amir Khadir is making no apologies for asking clients to boycott a family-owned shoe store in his own riding because it sells shoes made in Israel.

“Just because a business is in my riding, I am not going to abandon my principles,” Khadir, member of the National Assembly for Mercier, told The Gazette on Friday.

Khadir participated in a demonstration last Saturday in front of Le Marcheur shoe store on St. Denis St. at Duluth Ave., handing out flyers asking customers to boycott the store until it stopped selling Israeli-made shoes.

The demonstration was organized by Palestinian and Jewish Unity, a Montreal-based human rights group that advocates for the right of Palestinians to live in safety.

Khadir said he was asked to join the demonstration by PAJU members, and that he has participated in other PAJU demonstrations, in front of Chapters bookstore, for example, and the Israeli consulate.

PAJU has been holding regular pickets outside the Le Marcheur store since early October, because the store sells Beautifeel shoes, a brand made in Israel.

Yves Archambault, owner of Le Marcheur, said he was “sickened” to learn his own MNA was picketing his store.

“I was sickened to see him distributing flyers and stopping people who were coming into the store to tell them they shouldn’t support a business that sells Israeli products,” Archambault said.

“In Quebec we have free enterprise, and as long as it is legal, nobody has the right to tell me what I can and cannot sell in my store,” he said.

Archambault said he is “completely apolitical” and does not follow politics here or abroad. He admits he had no idea who Khadir was, until some of his employees told him.

He said he feels personally attacked by the picketers, and Khadir’s participation has made it worse.

Khadir emailed Archambault a few weeks before participating in the picket to ask him to stop selling Israeli-made products, and to explain the PAJU’s reasons for demanding a boycott of Israeli-made products and stores that sell them.

Archambault said he did not respond, because he is not interested in talking about politics.

“I don’t care where my products come from. I only care about comfort and quality,” he said.

But Khadir said business owners need to be made aware of their own power to make change. He says his party supports business but wants to get away from the “Walmart economy” and move toward fair and responsible commerce.

“Gandhi said: ‘Business without conscience is a crime,’ and buying and selling is voting,” Khadir said.

“Mr. Archambault doesn’t have to know everything, but when Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu are saying that Israel is practising apartheid, he has to take it seriously,” Khadir said.

Archambault said he has no intention of changing his product line.

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

Québec solidaire MNA Amir Khadir attends a protest organized by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights in 2008. Khadir has participated in many pro-Palestinian rallies, including a demonstration outside a shoe store last Saturday organized by Palestinian and Jewish Unity.

Below is a first hand account of attempting to buy a pair of shoes at Le Marcheur in Montreal by a reader of Vlad:

My mother just came back from purchasing Israeli-made shoes from the store in down town Montreal that is being subjected to a boycott because it sells Israeli-made shoes. Twenty people showed up to buy shoes after Eric Duhaime called on Montrealers to show solidarity with the embattled store owner. She, with others, was greeted by about a hundred threatening Arabs with Hezbollah flags shouting anti-Semitic slogans and blocking the street completely. She says that several intimidating Arabs took her picture as she was going inside and one was even filming. One young Arab called her a Jewish sow. The store owner is getting death threats and is seriously depressed. He said that he won’t give in to these terrorists’ demands. But how long can he keep it up before going out of business? Montreal in 2010.

Below the more, a translation from a French paper by Bear: Continue Reading →

CBN on Fort Hood

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This clip is from September 2010 but I believe it is important to not let Fort Hood slide down the memory hole. The cause of the Fort Hood shooting has not been addressed, so its only a matter of time till it happens again. Thanks KitmanTV for capturing the clip and bringing it to my attention

The Sharia Shack: Toronto halal restaurant seats women in separate section.

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This story first came to light when posted on Small Dead Animals, one of Canada’s more influential blogs, thanks to a reader who sent in the photograph. It appears the owners and operators of Juba Restaurant feel perfectly comfortable applying sharia standards in a public establishment. Canadian values do not support gender segregation; men and women are considered equal in all aspects of life, with legal statutes firmly in place reflecting this societal value. Sharia law considers gender mixing unIslamic, so it stands to reason that the good Muslims over at Juba’s sharia shack would defy both the value of gender equality and the laws supporting it.

Purdah, the separation of men and women, is based upon the central theme of Namus (honour) and is expected in public in many Islamic countries. Religious Saudis believe it is forbidden for a woman to eat in public as part of her veil would have to be removed to do so, revealing her face which would compromise purdah. For this reason, segregation is especially strict in restaurants and it is common for establishments to have defined areas for women only often marked as “family” and “women section only”. It is common to see western restaurant chains with both separate entrances and seating sections as they too, must abide by sharia standards. This McDonald’s in Riyhad comes complete with a segregated section where women must sit in the “family” section.

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Sharia law is not legal in Canada. and this is not Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan or any other country where sharia is the standard. This is Canada where Islamic law finds little, if any respect.

I might add, restaurants in Canada have been declared public property, and that was the entire basis for the now nation wide smoking bans. If a restaurant is considered public property, even though I do not believe it is, for the purpose of social engineering, then surely the kind of gender apartheid, (using the word correctly for once) being applied in this restaurant must be illegal and certainly should be stopped. This will only encourage Muslim men who are trying to make certain that women from Muslim nations will not and cannot integrate into Western society, and make it that much easier to force them to standards here in Canada, that should not apply even in the Islamic Magreb.