Category Archives: Islam in the Americas

Canada: ‘Peace and harmony’ at the Journey of Peace Conference with disclaimers, of course.

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From The National Post

Conference disclaimers highlight Islamic differences

Adrian Humphreys, National Post · Saturday, Jul. 3, 2010

Canadian-born Yahya Abu Sumayyah, who converted to Islam after reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, speaks during the Journey of Faith Islamic conference yesterday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

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Canadian-born Yahya Abu Sumayyah, who converted to Islam after reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, speaks during the Journey of Faith Islamic conference yesterday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Toronto — At the continent’s largest Islamic conference, the disclaimers in the Journey of Faith program, given out to the thousands of attendees, highlights the difficulty of portraying the modern face of an old religion.

Organizers, it says, “are not responsible for materials or opinions expressing views contrary to Canadian and international laws.”

Likewise, “promotion of any materials deemed illegal by Canadian federal and provincial laws is strictly prohibited,” and those caught doing so are on their own.

The warnings suggest that not everyone who might come here is in complete agreement with the conference theme of peaceful coexistence.

“Whatever lifestyle you chose in this country is your choice,” said Said Rageah, conference chairman, in an interview.

“Whether you chose to wear the burka or walk the street in a bikini, it is your choice,” he said, adding he fled repression in Somalia to seek freedom in Canada, where he is raising his six Canadian-born children.

“I’m telling the Canadian public that we can both coexist, both live together in peace.

“We’re not radicalizing anyone, and we are not abandoning Islam. We are here to correct, not to corrupt.”

The conference, which opened on Friday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, is billed as North America’s largest Islamic gathering with an expected attendance of 10,000.

It has already grabbed headlines over apparently incongruent views.

Dr. Zakir Naik, a 44-year-old Indian televangelist scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Sunday, was recently barred from entering Britain after highlights of past speeches drew attention to disparaging remarks about women, gays, Jews and non-Muslims and apparent support for Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader.

Mr. Rageah says it is a case of cutting and pasting excerpts of past speeches to portray an inaccurate picture.

Because of the British ban, Dr. Naik and his entire production crew with Peace TV are not travelling to Canada, on suggestions he would receive similar treatment by the Canadian government. He has cancelled the trip “due to the uncertainty of his admission to Canada.”

“Last year he came to speak and he had a visa for five years,” said Mr. Rageah. There were no problems, he said. “If a person like that is so dangerous then why was he given a five-year visa?”

Dr. Naik will still be heard on Sunday, but via a live video feed.

on Friday, the 2,000 early registered attendees heard beautifully rhythmic recitations of the Koran in Arabic, lectures on forgiveness and the importance of following the message of the Koran.

An ethnically diverse crowd of men and women, almost all of whom wore hijabs or face-covering niqabs, sat in different sections of the huge hall, where seating for several thousand was set up.

The first speaker, Abdulkadir Ali Cambe, from Britain, drew upon a story in the Koran for his message, saying: “We must be kind to our brothers and sisters in Islam. We must be kind to our brothers and sisters in humanity.”

Canadian-born Yahya Abu Sumayyah, who converted to Islam after reading the autobiography of American radical Malcolm X, implored Muslims to not compromise their religion for the sake of the pleasure, money or love.

National Post

What’s in a name? Why the mosque at Ground Zero is called the Cordoba House

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The Cordoba Initiative, the group that has long campaigned for and spear-headed the building of a mega-mosque near the ruins of Ground Zero in New York City, has yet to acknowledge this place a mosque, instead referring it as a ‘cultural centre’. It boasts according to it’s web site, that the centre (to be guided by Islamic values in their truest form”) will play host to restaurants, a swimming pool, a conference area, art exhibition spaces and a ‘spiritual place’ all attempting to bridge the great divide between Muslims and non-Muslims. Living harmoniously with each other in the name of freedom will be brought about by such an effort and Cordoba House will be perfect testimony to the Islamic ideals of bridge-building, tolerance and dialogue. Muslims have a voice! they proclaim, and what better way of improving relations than to build an “inter-faith” centre at Ground Zero, the very place where “a few of the misguided who hijacked Islam” smashed planes into the Twin Towers on the morning of September 11, 2001. Of course they did not speak for true Islam…..

This is a project intent upon setting the record straight according to the CI, to address the many ‘misconceptions’ non-Muslims have of Islam. It is set to represent the ideal of working together, Imam Feisal AbdulRauf of the Cordoba Initiative says, much in the same way I suspect that his group’s Sharia Index Project will work together to deliver to American Muslims a ‘peaceful parallel to American civil law’. As such, the initiative can successfully claim:

“After two years of work, ‘the Sharia Index Project’s working team of Sunni and Shi’a legal scholars from Morocco to Indonesia achieved consensus on a final structure on philosophy, methodology, and approach to providing the general public, opinion leaders, and state officials in both the Muslim and Western worlds with an Islamic legal benchmark for measuring the “Islamicity” of a state’. Continue Reading →

Canada: From teen to terrorist; how al-shabab recruits it’s ‘martyrs’

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From The National Post

From teens to terrorists: How Al-Shabab recruits Western ‘martyrs’

An undated video by the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. It is one of many recruiting videos that encourage Western youths to travel to Somali to fight a "global jihad."

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An undated video by the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. It is one of many recruiting videos that encourage Western youths to travel to Somali to fight a “global jihad.”

Stewart Bell, National Post · Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010

In a video posted on the Internet, 10 militants-in-training jog on a sandy trail on the Somali plains. Their faces are masked but the one in the red-checkered scarf and white runners is alleged to be a young Canadian.

His name is Abdul Karim.

“We have a global mission,” one of the Al-Shabab trainees says into the camera, speaking in English and holding a worn assault rifle. “Come join us and defend the religion of Allah.” Continue Reading →

Two very different parties celebrated for Canada’s birthday.

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Happy Canada Day!

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So while millions of Canadians will celebrate Canada’s 143rd birthday, a celebration recognizing it’s  history, values and traditions, 10,000 Muslims will flock to the “Journey of Peace Conference” in Toronto to celebrate misogyny, homophobia and jihad. Of course ‘ace’ speaker Dr.Zakir Naik’s ban from entering the country has many upset, claiming it a ‘slap in the face for Canadian values’. The web site of the Journey of Peace Conference says:

” The conference will go on as planned and Dr. Zakir Naik will be joining us via live video conferencing along with all the other speakers already scheduled. Join us this Canada Day weekend for a journey towards understanding our Divine Manual: The Holy Qur’an.”

The only slap in the face here is that so many would celebrate anti-Canadian values, perfectly timed for Canada Day weekend.

‘Hatemonger’ barred by Ottawa to speak via video link

Dr Zakir Naik gives a comprehensive answer regarding the Beating of Wife in Islam in accordance to Holy Qur'an and Sahih Hadith. This question was posted in the program 'Dare to Ask' of Peace TV.

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Dr Zakir Naik gives a comprehensive answer regarding the Beating of Wife in Islam in accordance to Holy Qur’an and Sahih Hadith. This question was posted in the program ‘Dare to Ask’ of Peace TV.

Kathryn Blaze Carlson, National Post · Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010

An Indian Muslim televangelist recently banned from Canada for his inflammatory statements about Jews, gays, and the West, will still headline a massive Islamic conference in Toronto this weekend, addressing upwards of 10,000 attendees via video satellite.

The Journey of Faith Conference — billed as North America’s largest Islamic conference, and featuring personalities such as Abdur Raheem Green, who has advocated “fighting jihad” and Sheikh Hussein Yee, who once said Jews are the extremists of the world — will “go on as planned” — despite Dr. Zakir Naik’s exclusion from Canada, according to the event website.

“The organizers of the 3rd Annual Journey of Faith conference, regret to announce that Dr. Zakir Naik will be unable to attend this year’s conference due to the uncertainty of his admission to Canada,” the event homepage says. “The conference will go on as planned and Dr. Zakir Naik will be joining us via live video conferencing along with all the other speakers already scheduled.”

The National Post first reported last week that Dr. Naik, president of the Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, has been denied a visa to enter Canada because of past comments such as “every Muslim should be a terrorist,” Jews are “our staunchest enemy,” and “If [Osama bin Laden] is fighting the enemies of Islam, I am for him.”

The 44-year-old medical doctor has also said that a man is within his right to beat his wife “lightly,” though in a July 2009 YouTube video he cautioned against hitting her on the face or leaving a mark.

Dr. Naik will join others who have been banned from Canada but who, through the means of technology, still manage to address large audiences here. British anti-war MP George Galloway, for example, was banned from delivering a speech in Canada last year because of his support of Gaza’s Hamas government, but nonetheless delivered a high-profile speech to hundreds of supporters in a downtown Toronto church via live-feed.

Bernie Farber, CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said Dr. Naik’s upcoming virtual appearance at the Journey of Faith Conference is a slap in the face to Canadian values.

“Given that the Canadian government has sent a strong message that this person is unwelcome in this country, it would have been appropriate for the organizers to keep him from speaking at the conference — period,” Mr. Farber said. “If this is the way they want to operate, then I think that sends a very clear message.”

Dr. Naik, who was also recently banned from entering the UK and whose 16-year-old son is still slated to speak at the conference, did not respond to requests for an interview yesterday.

Conference chairman Imam Saed Rageah — whose Toronto mosque, the Abu Huraira Centre, made headlines last fall after a group of young worshippers vanished and were feared to have joined a Somali militant group — also declined to comment yesterday.

Meantime, Dr. Naik’s supporters were vocal, flocking to the Journey of Faith Conference Facebook page, which has 2,245 fans, to voice their disappointment over the organizers’ June 24 announcement that Dr. Naik will not set foot on the conference stage.

Another supporter was more pronounced in her indignation: “Allah will never let his religion die, it’s just another test. If we produce more people like Dr Zakir naik and spread Islam. Nothing and no power in this world is stronger than Allah.”

Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, said that while Dr. Naik has a right to speak via satellite, the government’s decision to ban him from Canada “highlights the fact that this man is a hatemonger.”

“Now it is up to those who attend this event to justify why they are going to a conference where a misogynist, homophobic, Jew-hater will be speaking,” Mr. Fatah said. “That’s the burden these 10,000 young Muslim men and women will have to carry.”

According to a second Journey of Faith Conference website — posted under the banner of Peace TV, which was founded by Dr. Naik and is the event’s main media partner — this weekend’s exhibition at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre will touch on ‘Women in Islam,’ including the “status of women in accordance with the Qur’an,” and the issue of “What non-Muslim personalities say about Islam and Prophet Muhammad.”

Dr. Naik — who has spoken several times at the annual Reviving the Islamic Spirit convention in Toronto — has garnered headlines in Canada in the past. In 2006, the National Post reported that one of the Toronto 18 terrorist suspects had urged Muslim youth to seek out the televangelist’s teachings.

“I own like 5 of his video cassettes,” the suspect told his online friends in November, 2003.

However, Mr. Fatah said Canadians should not expect to hear anything “nasty” from Dr. Naik this time around, because he knows his words will be scrutinized.

“Expect a very lovely speech about brotherhood and amity,” Mr. Fatah said. “He will want to prove that the ban on his entry into this country was wrong.”

Citizenship and Immigration Canada declined to comment yesterday, citing the Privacy Act.

National Post

A short compilation of some of the peace activists at Toronto’s G 20

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I wonder if these guys are gonna be on the next flotilla to Gaza

Someone please explain how these laws are being applied

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Please watch this and comment. Many people are being arrested by large numbers of police for handing out Christian literature within 5 blocks of a Muslim festival in Dearborn Mich. This looks a lot like sharia by the instalment plan.

More here. Please check the details. There is another video there from the ‘other side’ as well.

Toronto: Narrative so strong that homosexuals march demanding their own deaths before the acceptance of a Jewish state

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First let me make my terms clear. Below, a 12 minute video clip by one of my favorite analysts in the new media, Bill Whittle, who explains what exactly the narrative is and where it came from. His clip is 12 minutes long. Please watch it if you have not already. At the and of his 12 minutes I attached the specific video clip he recommended for those who wish to know more.

In this context I hope the title makes sense. Blazing Cat Fur was kind enough to send me a link to their site of an article about how at the last moment, ‘Queers Against Israeli Apartheid’ is going to be allowed to march in this years ‘Gay Pride’ festival.

I find this interesting. First, presumably the marches were for the establishment of equal rights for homosexuals before the law. An understandable goal for a liberal society and in the context of real equal rights (as opposed to systemic discrimination such as affirmative action etc) a critically important one.

Then, at least it appears to me, the marches having achieved all their goals at least in Canada became celebrations of pure hedonism. At one level fun and eclectic, at another, a thorn in the side of those more conservative minded people who feel that sexuality should have some modesty and social responsibilities attached.

Even so, it was a livable balance.

However the power of the Anti Israel and often if not always, a stone’s throw away from anti-Semetic narrative is so powerful, that Homosexuals have fought for the ‘right’ to march against the one state in the entire Middle east, and probably although I am not certain all of South Asia, who actually do not murder homosexuals merely for being such.

Let me summarize.

Gay people won the right to be equal before the law and march with impunity as openly gay in the streets of North America, even to the point of breaking numerous laws on nudity in public and so on, just to then decide to use that massive political lobby to fight for people who would bury them to the neck and stone them to death against the only tiny state in that region who would allow them full rights, liberties, dignity and opportunity as openly gay people.

And the protest from the gay community?

Short of Fred’s excelent blog Gay and Right and perhaps one or two  more tiny voices of reason I hear deafening silence.

All I can say is, if homosexuals in Canada had a grain of integrity or for that matter even a modicum of self preservation, they would be marching for gay rights in Palestine or Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the Islamic world.

Gay people of Canada, you have a great deal to be ashamed of.

I would like to remind you that the term faggot meant that gay people could be stacked like cord-wood and would burn well. That homosexuals were murdered by the hundreds of thousands alongside the Jews and Gypsies in the Nazi death camps. That you ally yourselves with the very people who will take bets on how long it will take you to die in some ancient ritualistic form of mutilationous murder.

Pick your allies well. History is watching.

Eeyore for Vlad.

US unions Islamists and communists block access to Israeli commercial ship

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From Pajamas Media:

An Israeli cargo ship arriving in Oakland today was forced to sit idle and not offload its containers when longshoremen joined forces with a coalition of communist and Islamist groups who picketed the port in protest against the recent violent incident off the coast of Gaza.

The ship, owned by Zim Lines, was not carrying any controversial cargo, nor is Zim involved in politics in any way; it was targeted simply because the shipping company is based in Israel.

The planned protest and blockade were organized by The Free Palestine Movement (one of the same groups which organized the Gaza “flotilla” in the first place) as well as a rogues’ gallery of nearly every communist, anti-Israel and radical Islamist group in the Bay Area:

Please visit the link at the top for the rest of this article:

Muslim Student Union given the boot at California University, Irvine

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From FoxNews

Disruptions at Israeli ambassador’s talk prompt suspension ruling for UC Irvine Muslim group

Published June 14, 2010, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A University of California, Irvine, disciplinary committee ruled that a Muslim student group should be suspended for at least a year because of a protest that disrupted a talk by Israel’s ambassador and led to the arrest of 11 students, according to documents released Monday.

The letter from a student affairs disciplinary committee to Muslim Student Union leaders said the group was guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities, furnishing false information and other violations of campus policy.

University spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon said the committee’s decision will be a binding recommendation to the campus’ office of student affairs if a planned appeal by the group does not succeed.

MSU attorney Reem Salahi said the committee relied on evidence relied that was “inadequate and problematic” but declined to outline the group’s challenge in detail. She said the decision, if sustained, would leave Muslim students without an organization representing their interests.

“It really does have very lasting constitutional implications,” she said. “It’s a chilling effect for Muslims on campus and their right to associate.”

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was repeatedly interrupted and called “murderer” and “war criminal” by pro-Palestinian students as he was giving a talk on the Middle East peace process in February.

Eleven students were cited on charges of disrupting a public event after they were requested to refrain from heckling but did not.

Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Susan Schroeder said criminal charges have yet to be filed and it was unknown if or when they would be.

The MSU condemned the ambassador’s appearance but insisted it did not organize the protests.

The disciplinary committee, however, said a review of online message group conversations and minutes from an MSU meeting revealed that the group did engineer the protests and instructed participants to lie about its involvement.

The group’s preparations allegedly included scripting statements for protesters to make during the event and instructing participants to cheer at disruptions.

“Be VERY LOUD, firm and strong … but remain composed and under control. Do not let your emotions get the best of you. Remember that this is a planned/calculated response and not a venting session,” the committee quoted organizers as telling participants in meeting minutes.

The committee also ruled that the group should be put on disciplinary probation for a year following its suspension, which ends in August 2011, and that members collectively complete 50 hours of community service.

The letter, dated May 27, was released following a Freedom of Information Act request by the Jewish Federation Orange County.

2nd attempt on US military base

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***  UPDATE  ***

June 16, 2010  STRATFOR
Anthony Todd Saxon, a civilian arrested while impersonating a master sergeant at Fort Gordon, was in possession of several grenades, night vision devices, a laser targeting device and a land mine, AP reported June 16. A military spokesman said authorities did not consider the case to be a terrorist threat and federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint stating the Saxon was trying to steal Army-issued laser sights for military rifle

This is the second attempt on a US military base where the person was arrested and identified and they have not released the names. This is infuriating. What kind of a country has the US become where the truth may not be told unless it fits the leftist narrative? I am certain that if the attackers are Jewish, Christian or ‘Right Wing’ we would all know their names by now. But since both cases have not named the attempted attacker, we have to assume they are Muslim.

Once again, Please view the agenda and views of this site.

Civilian arrested at military base with possible explosives: CNN

Bomb squads from Fort Gordon and Richmond County, Georgia, were called to a remote location on the base.

Bomb squads from Fort Gordon and Richmond County, Georgia, were called to a remote location on the base.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Man detained after “possible grenades” were found in vehicle, officials say
  • Bomb squads were called to Fort Gordon in Georgia to investigate vehicle
  • Base spokesman: Search uncovered other “militarylike” items

(CNN) — Military police at Fort Gordon, near Augusta, Georgia, have arrested a civilian for impersonating a soldier after “possible grenades” were found in his vehicle on base, a base spokesman said early Wednesday.

The Fort Gordon and Richmond County bomb squads were called to a remote location on the base after a search of the vehicle the man had been driving uncovered “several possible grenades” and other “militarylike” items, according to Buz Yarnell, a base spokesman. The FBI is leading the investigation, he said.

Authorities believe the man may have been involved in earlier thefts of military equipment at Fort Gordon, Yarnell said.

A report of a suspicious person on the base Tuesday afternoon led military police to the suspect.

Globe & Mail publishes 14 page doc on the Asqa Parvez murder

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This is extraordinary. The Parvez family loathed the Kuffar. For Kuffar, read Canadians. The had 8 kids of which Asqa was the youngest at 16 when she was murdered. They were all born in Pakistan, and the other Parvez children are married to 1st cousins from Pakistan. Yes all 7 of them. Asqa was also set up for a forced marriage. She declined. She was killed.

All of her sisters wear the Hijab or whatever, and Asqa refused.

All of her siblings with the exception of two, were home in their respective bedrooms during the murder. Their respective children were also at the dwelling.  This would be something like 15 people in the home during the murder by strangulation. Each was in a bedroom and ‘heard nothing’.

She had friends which were not Muslims, which enraged her father. He also threatened to send her to an Islamic school as I suspect, the public school in which she attended was not ‘suitable’. He was upset Asqa rejected the hijab and was further annoyed his daughter sought a part-time job. None of his other daughters worked and were entirely dependent upon their husbands.  After her death he phoned 911 and confessed to the murder. When police arrived at the scene, his arms were covered in blood.

For the first time in her life she went to the movies 3 days before she was murdered. Some of those who went with her, were infidels. For infidels, read Canadians.

Below, some of the article from the Globe & Mail. However click on over to read the 14 page report. Its quite something. Will be hard for the apologists to get around this clear Islamic motive for this murder of a daughter.

Here it is below:
Parvez case: Agreed Statement of Facts

Mother stabbed daughter in ‘honour crime’: Police

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The Star: by way of  T.R.O.P.

MONTREAL – Favouring her left forearm, on which spots of blood had soaked through the white bandage, the woman stood in the prisoner’s box looking crushed, accused of stabbing her own daughter in what police say was an “honour crime.”

After her lawyer, Tom Pentefountas, asked to delay the formal laying of charges so his client’s psychological fitness for trial could be determined, the woman’s husband stood up in the back of the court and shouted to the judge: “Please sir, my wife is innocent!”

He soon began to weep, completing the picture of a family utterly torn asunder by what transpired early Sunday morning.

The 19-year-old daughter remains in hospital with knife wounds to the head, shoulders and arms.

It’s believed that the daughter came home late, Pentefountas, a prominent name in the Montreal legal community, indicated to the court.

One source said she is believed to have returned home after 3 a.m. The assault happened just after 8, according to police.

Police based their theory that it was an honour crime on “what we saw at the scene of the crime,” said Olivier Lapointe, spokesperson for the Montreal Police Service, and especially on interviews with people inside the house and the victim herself.

It appeared related to the “behavior of the victim,” Lapointe said.

The woman, 38-year-old Johra Kaleki, faces charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. Continue Reading →

Parvez family admits to honour killing. mom just wanted to break arms and legs

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Guilty plea in Aqsa Parvez honour killing. Toronto Sun:

Father, brother admit to murdering teen

By MICHELE MANDEL

Last Updated: June 15, 2010 1:24pm

Aqsa Parvez was murdered in 2007. Her father and brother pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Aqsa Parvez was murdered in 2007. Her father and brother pleaded guilty Tuesday.

The father and brother of Aqsa Parvez have pleaded guilty to murdering the rebellious 16-year-old in an abhorrent honour killing.

Muhammad Parvez, 60, and his son, Waqas, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday in the Dec. 10 2007 strangulation of Aqsa and they face an automatic term of life in prison .

At the time of her shocking murder, which Peel Police have described as a “planned and deliberate act,” the Grade 11 Mississauga student was estranged from her Muslim family because she was bristling at their restrictions. She had moved in with a friend’s family and no longer wore a hijab in her Applewood high school in Mississauga.

In an agreed statement of facts read by Sandra Caponecchia, court heard Aqsa, who had already been promised by her family in an arranged marriage, ran away from home twice because of her lack of freedom. With assistance from her school counselor, she stayed at a shelter the first time and with a friend the next. Despite her father allowing her to wear Western clothes and begging her to return, she refused to come back.

She had told her friends that her dad had sworn on the Koran that he would kill her if she ran away again.

On Dec. 10, her brother Waqsa confronted her at the school bus stop and she was taken away in the Parvez van at about 7:20 am. Just over 30 minutes later, her father called 911 and said he “killed his daughter” using his hands. Continue Reading →

Khadr son charged with sexual assault

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The Khadr’s, Canada’s First Family of Terror, are a despicable lot. Not a year goes by without one of them appearing on the front pages, living out their Islamist customs and traditions. This time it’s Abdulkareem Khadr, the son of patriarch Ahmed, who was killed in a firefight near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Abdulkareem was left paralyzed from a bullet to his spine in this same firefight and after returning to Canada, now finds himself charged with sexual assault of a minor.

From The National Post

Khadr son charged with sexual assualt

Abdulkareem Khadr in 2008. Khadr, partially paralyzed after a firefight in Pakistan, is facing charges of sexual assault

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Abdulkareem Khadr in 2008. Khadr, partially paralyzed after a firefight in Pakistan, is facing charges of sexual assault

Stewart Bell, National Post · Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010

TORONTO — The partially paralyzed son of the late Canadian al-Qaeda associate Ahmed Said Khadr has been arrested in Toronto for alleged sexual exploitation of a minor.

Abdulkareem Ahmed Khadr, 21, was arrested 10 days ago by Toronto Police and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on July 15.

“He has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation,” Constable Tony Vella, a police spokesman, said on Monday. The alleged victim was a minor but is now 18 years of age, Const. Vella said.

Reached at the family apartment on Monday, Mr. Khadr said: “Don’t worry about it. I’m pretty sure the law is going to do what it’s supposed to do.”

The arrest is the latest chapter in the saga of the Khadrs, Canadian citizens who once lived in the same compound as Osama bin Laden but fled Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The family patriarch, Amhed Khadr, crossed into Pakistan, where he was killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003. His son Omar is at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused of killing a U.S. soldier.

Another son, Abdullah, is in Toronto awaiting extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with smuggling weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while son Abdurahman has said his father tried to recruit him to become a suicide bomber.

The fifth of six Khadr children, Abdulkareem, who was born in Pakistan, was present when his father was killed near the Afghanistan border. Then 14, Abdulkareem took a bullet to the spine and is paralyzed from the waist down.

He returned to Toronto in 2004 using an emergency passport issued by the Canadian government. At the time, Stockwell Day, then an opposition MP and now International Trade Minister, said the Khadrs had lost the right to call themselves Canadians.

“They’ve expressed their allegiance to the principles of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden,” Mr. Day said. “That alone should be grounds to have their citizenship revoked.”

The mother denies the family has ties to al-Qaeda.

In 2006, Abdulkareem turned up in Brampton, Ont., to watch bail hearings for the Toronto 18 terrorists who plotted truck bomb attacks in southern Ontario. Two years later, he took part in a protest outside the United States consulate in Toronto to call for the release of his brother Omar.

On Monday, Abdulkareem said he was arrested at a police station in suburban Scarborough on June 4. “I went to go see what they were talking about, talk to them and that’s it,” he said. “They gave me the papers and whatnot and that’s it, they let me go.”

Mr. Khadr said he was unsure whether he would have to appear in court next month. “I might not need to appear, I might need to appear, it doesn’t matter,” he said. Asked if he meant the case might be resolved or the charges dropped before that date, he said, “yes.”

His sister Zaynab said she was unaware of any charges.

“He hasn’t been charged with anything, if there was any charges believe me I’d know about it,” she said on Monday. “I don’t know about any of that and believe me I would have known, I have a minor in the house.”

National Post

Canada: Police investigate honour crime in Montreal, mother charged

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From The Montreal Gazette, courtesy TROP

Mother faces charges in daughter’s Dorval stabbing

Home on Louise Lamy St. in Dorval where a 19-year-old woman suffered serious stab wounds to her head and face Sunday. Police arrested the victim's 38-year-old mother, who is scheduled to be arraigned Monday for attempted murder, armed assault and possession of a weapon with dangerous intent.

Home on Louise Lamy St. in Dorval where a 19-year-old woman suffered serious stab wounds to her head and face Sunday. Police arrested the victim’s 38-year-old mother, who is scheduled to be arraigned Monday for attempted murder, armed assault and possession of a weapon with dangerous intent.

Photograph by: Allen McInnis, the Gazette

This story has been updated.

MONTREAL – A 38-year-old woman is scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon on charges of attempted murder, armed assault and possession of a weapon with dangerous intent after her daughter, 19, suffered serious stab wounds at the family’s West Island home.

The victim suffered significant injuries to her head and face but was listed in stable condition Monday, police said.

Police said the weapon used was a large kitchen knife. The victim was attacked at her home on Louise Lamy St. near Carson Ave. in Dorval about 8:15 a.m. Sunday. The victim’s father and three sisters, age 10, 14 and 16, were home at the time of the stabbing, police Constable Anie Lemieux said.

Montreal police Constable Olivier Lapointe said the incident is being investigated as a possible honour crime, generally defined as an act of violence perpetrated because the victim is believed to have brought dishonor upon the family. The family is originally from Afghanistan, police said.

Lapointe noted that the victim had stayed out all night before she was attacked and this will be considered as part of the investigation.

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