Canadian Jihad, Abroad and at Home

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In the competition to see which Western country can send the most jihad fighters to the Middle East, Finland, Britain, and Belgium have recently been mentioned as contenders for the title of “Greatest Supporter of Jihad”. However, it may come as a surprise to most readers that, on a per capita basis, Canada incubates, radicalizes and sends out more mujahideen to join not just the Syrian front but every battlefield where ISIS is fighting, or where there is an Al Qaeda franchise.

Americans may also be unaware that a lot of people in influential positions in major American Muslim Brotherhood affiliates — including Jamal Badawi, Ingrid Mattson and even Ibrahim Hooper — are Canadian nationals.

Point de Bascule has just published a report that may not sit well with the more partisan factions in Canada — that is, those who are willing to resist sharia, yet still believe that a 20th-century style democracy can handle the problem of radical Islamic infiltration. As if allowing mass Muslim immigration weren’t bad enough, the government has been at best ignorantly enabling the penetration of Canada by Islamic zealots, and at worst actively colluding with them.

According to the CBC (Canadian broadcasting Corporation) Canada actually exceeds European countries on a per capita basis. The United States just determined that in Syria alone, there are five hundred Canadian nationals that joined the combatants:

If the CBC is willing to report that there are five hundred “Canadian” mujahideen, it’s a safe bet that there are at least that many waging jihad in the path of Allah.

This is a disproportionate number compared with every other country in the West. And this radicalization is carried out by “mainstream” Islamic institutions, the Muslim Association of Canada being the main body and, according the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch‎, the only organization apart from Hamas to openly declare that they endorse and promote the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, and it’s happening even under a Conservative Government.

A country’s intelligence agencies are the only entities that have the privilege and means and access to be able to do proper due diligence before any government agency associates with or hires individuals. In the case of Canada, this is obviously not being done, which is appalling, give the quantity of information regarding Hussein Hamdani and his cohorts that is available in the public domain. Canada may be the most irresponsible country in the world in allowing (and funding) “radicalization”.

The Conservatives are the only government capable of dealing with the issue, and they are not doing so. They are fueling the problem. They are failing the Canadian people.

They are more concerned with those who return from jihad abroad than they are with radicalization at home. The security apparatus is obsessed only with violent, explosive type of terrorism. It has no interest in investigating the seeds that radicalize.

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Below are excerpts from the report by Point de Bascule:

June 8, 2012 — Muslim Brotherhood delegation led by Hussein Hamdani met with Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews / Details provided by lawyer of Hamas’s fund collector

On June 8, 2012, a delegation of Muslim activists met with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. Later that month, Naseer Syed identified the participants and presented what was discussed at the meeting on his website MuslimLegal.ca. In his summary, Syed mentioned that a report of the meeting was provided to him directly by the leader of the delegation, Hussein Hamdani. Since this meeting took place, Vic Toews has retired from his federal seat and was replaced as Minister of Public Safety by Steven Blainey.

Hamdani made three main points in his presentation: he tried to discourage the Minister and other Canadian security officials from using Islamic concepts in order to explain the current Islamist threat, he asked for money on behalf of so-called “moderate Muslims” on the pretense of challenging the Islamists who are radicalizing the Muslim community and he proposed to schedule more meetings in the future between the Minister and “a Muslim community working group” (i.e. assuredly another Muslim Brotherhood front group).

PART 1— Hussein Hamdani, the leader of the Muslim delegation

Hussein Hamdani was the leader of the Muslim delegation that met with Minister Toews. He is a Hamilton lawyer and a member of the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security (CCRS). He was appointed to the CCRS in 2005 by then Minister of Public Safety Anne McLellan. According to its mandate, the Roundtable on Security “provides advice and perspectives to the Minister of Public Safety and the Minister of Justice, concerning matters of national security.” In 2006, the Globe and Mail revealed that Hamdani’s advising role led him to accompany the Public Safety Minister and CSIS Director in a mission abroad.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/8/2014

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Three elderly Italian nuns were raped and killed in Burundi. According to one report, two of them had their throats slit, while another account said one was beheaded. No reports mentioned any motive for the beheading. The Vatican issued a statement by Pope Francis, who said he was “deeply saddened” by the tragedy.

In other news, eight militant extremists have been identified in the congregation of the Islamic Society mosque in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the mosque attended by the Boston Marathon bombers. One of the radical militants is said to be the maker of all those exciting professional-quality ISIS videos.

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“Our Present Is Your Future”

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Below is the prepared text of the speech given in Chanhassen, Minnesota tonight by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, at an event sponsored by SW Metro Tea Party Patriots and ACT! for America, Minneapolis Chapter.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thank you for inviting me here to Chanhassen. It’s the first time I’ve been to Minnesota, and I must say it’s a pleasure to be here. The closest I came to this part of the country was when I lived in Chicago, but that was many years ago.

I have always admired the Tea Party Movement, contrary to most of my fellow Austrians, who are uneducated when it comes to the historical significance of the original Boston Tea Party. What I admire most is that you are nourished by the very American belief that the government does not have the answers, that reform comes from below, that people are wiser than their leaders.

I bring you greetings from Austria. I’d like to be able to report some happy news, but there is little good news to be had in my country. Austria, like most of the rest of Western Europe, is being Islamized at an accelerating pace, even as our freedom of speech is more and more often suppressed. The two processes are connected with each other: in order to prevent any real public understanding of what Islamization means, and to inhibit any popular discontent, the ability to tell the truth is vigorously squashed.

Those of you who know me are aware that I will NOT cease telling the truth about Islam. For almost ten years I have made it my business to inform my fellow Austrians about the nature of Islam, as revealed in the Koran and the sayings of Mohammed. I refuse to cease my activities merely because dhimmi government bureaucrats consider such truths to be “hate speech”. In the past I have been prosecuted and convicted for explaining Islam in a factual manner, and I may well be prosecuted again. But I shall continue regardless.

Similar conditions exist in other European countries. Austria is not even the worst-off — Britain and Sweden are vying with each other to see who can be the most repressive. In both countries you are likely to be prosecuted for saying anything that reflects badly on Islam. And, just as in Austria, the truth is no defense.

As an example, consider what happened to my good friend Paul Weston, a Counterjihad activist and the leader of the LibertyGB party in Britain. Last April, as a part of his election campaign for the European Parliament, Paul stood on the steps of the Winchester Guildhall and quoted from a book written in 1899 called The River War. He recited the following words:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property — either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”

Someone in earshot heard his words, took offense, and called the police. Paul was eventually arrested, taken to the police station, and charged with “incitement of racial hatred”, which is a “racially aggravated crime under Section 4 of the Public Order Act.” The charges were later dropped, but what happened to him served as a warning to others who might consider doing something similar.

All of this is bad enough — to be arrested for reading from an old book that makes politically incorrect observations about Islam. But that book happens to have been written by a man named WINSTON CHURCHILL.

Such is the sad state of affairs in Modern Multicultural Britain: an English citizen can now be arrested for giving a public reading from a book by the greatest British prime minister who ever lived.

I could cite more examples from all over Western Europe, but if I did I would exceed my allotted time and keep all of us up long past our bedtime. Someone is arrested almost every day in Europe for “hate speech”, and the offending words almost always concern Islam.

There is currently a demand by the Islamic Faith Community in Austria for an “anti-Islamism law”, which is actually a ruse to obtain new favorable provisions for Muslims. The drive for this law is being backed by Turkey. The same law is also being demanded in Germany by the Turkish community. The final result, if they are successful, will be that Muslims in both countries will gain further special privileges and be protected from criticism.

Truth is the first victim when our freedoms are threatened. Seraphina Verhofstadt was asked in a TV interview why she still displays the Israeli flag after being beaten up, and whether it would not be wiser to remove it. She answered: “If I do that, I will also lose my freedom of speech.”

I have been asked frequently after my conviction whether it would not be wiser just to stop talking about Islam “in this way”. My answer is: “If I do that, more people will lose their freedom of speech.”

First we lose truth, then we lose freedoms, and finally we lose life itself.

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Planes and Tanks and Missiles

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In the comments on last night’s essay by The Kafir, William Palmer made this remark:

Don’t we want to have a festering Shia-Sunni war going on forever in some relatively safe place like Syria-Iraq? Isn’t this perfect strategy to attract the maggots? Our goal should be to keep it going and try to keep one side from winning. When our radicalized citizens leave the west to go fight in such a war, isn’t this good? [no return policy however…surprise!] The more, the better. We want to foster an Islamic crusade from the west to help ISIS and to battle ISIS at once and together..and, if Iran gets the bomb.to finally abet a larger Sunni-Shia face-off between a nuclear Iran and a nuclear Pakistan/Arabia as an ultimate stalemate?

Our long term objective must be to let the fires roar but to contain them.

I entertained similar thoughts about ISIS until very recently. What changed my mind was last night’s release of the latest propaganda video by the Islamic State. It’s at least as ghastly as its predecessors, horrible beyond the ability of words to describe. Needless to say, YouTube has taken it down since then. However, Vlad Tepes captured and edited some excerpts from it that contain no atrocity footage, and should thus be acceptable. Let’s take a look at these brief clips, which show the equipment captured by ISIS when it made a successful assault on a Syrian air base:

Update: Well, I was wrong — YouTube did remove the video, for being inappropriate, according to the Community Guidelines:

Violent or gory content that appears to posted in a shocking, sensational or disrespectful manner is not permitted in YouTube. For example, videos showing someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated are not okay. If your video is graphic or disturbing, it can only remain on the site where supported by appropriate educational or documentary information.

Vlad and I chose the excerpted footage precisely because it contained no violence — only footage of captured weapons and equipment. The weapons weren’t even being fired, and the tanks and planes were not being operated. There were no corpses or wounded people in the excerpts. No one even got slapped in the face.

So go figure.

For those of you who missed this footage: it showed several planes, identified as MiG-21s, and two tanks, one of which is a T-72. The artillery piece has not been identified.

Now you can proceed. Just pretend you saw the video.

Those are Syrian flags on the planes, which suggested that they (and presumably the tanks and ordnance) were Russian in origin. Vlad and I brought a third person into our discussions, a young man who happens to be an expert on military equipment, especially tanks and planes.

Below are some excerpts from our three-way discussion:

Expert:   The plane is a MiG-21:

Syrian Civil War

Starting in July 2012, after more than a year of Civil War with no aerial action, the Syrian Air Force started operations against Syrian insurgents. MiG-21’s were among the first combat ready aircraft to be employed in bombings, rocket attacks and strafing runs with many videos recorded from the ground showing the jets in combat.

The rebels had access to heavy machine guns, different antiaircraft guns and Russian and Chinese MANPADS up to modern designs such as the Russian 9K38 Igla. The first loss of a MiG-21 was recorded on 30 August 2012. Its registration was 2271. It was likely downed on take off or landing at Abu Dhuhur air base, under siege by rebels, by heavy machine gun fire. A few days later a second MiG-21, registered 2280, was shot down and recorded on video on 4 September 2012. It was likely downed on take off or landing at Abu Dhuhur air base, under siege by rebels, by KPV 14.5 mm machine gun fire.
Baron:   Now ISIS has them. I wonder if they can fly them.
Vlad:   I’m sure they have some of the same pilots that flew them before. Whose idea was it, after all, to get the air base? Why did they want to go after such a fortified target? Why couldn’t they defend the base? I don’t understand why the Syrians didn’t blow up stuff like ordinance and so on.
Baron:   Their soldiers were there in force, and they lost. They probably underestimated their enemy.

They must have guys that can fly those. There have been defectors. Remember that guy at the oil refinery who welcomed them?

Expert:   I can’t tell what the first tank is. The second tank is a T-72. (Photo)

The nice thing about the MiG-21 is that it’s been around forever, so there are probably tons of pilots who are familiar with it, especially in that area where there are tons of Soviet-era planes. Tanks, probably the same deal. ISIS seems pretty proficient militarily. I would assume they have people who are comfortable with Soviet-era tanks.

I would wager some of the US tanks they might be oddly less comfortable with, because those are more modern and less prolific in the Middle East.
Vlad:   I mean, where are these ISIS guys coming from? Are they former military?
Baron:   Some of them, yes. They get defectors from Iraq and Syria. Sunnis. And some Turks and Lebanese and lots of “Europeans”.
Expert:   Well, that would explain it, as far as the planes go. If these guys have any familiarity with civilian aircraft, I assume they could figure out a jet. I imagine there have been some accidents, probably some fatalities, but it would be doable. Tanks would be even easier, and artillery pieces easier yet.

I would say planes present the most problems for them, but even so I think they’ll probably do a better job than we expect. And I would say that with planes, they will probably have a very easy time figuring out air-to-ground missiles.

I think ISIS’s first air to ground attack will take place much sooner than anyone expects, and I predict they will get very devastating, very fast.
Vlad:   Military jets require specialized training to the extent that they reject commercial ATR level pilots.
 

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/7/2014

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Israel’s energy minister announced that his government will sign a 15-year deal to deliver natural gas to Jordan. The gas will come from the Leviathan offshore field.

In other news, after 126 years, DNA evidence from the shawl of one of his victims has conclusively determined the identity of Jack the Ripper.

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God Save Us From Our Own Ruling Elite

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Our Indian correspondent The Kafir returns with a brief essay prompted by recent revelations about mass child-rape and sex-slavery in Rotherham.

God save us from our own ruling elite
by The Kafir

Rotherham made me cry. People are not able to comprehend the full import of this crime.

The families of Rotherham pay taxes in the fond hope that the money so collected will be spent to keep them safe. After all, keeping citizens safe from violence is the first duty of every government. The residents also surrendered to the government their right to violence in self-defence in the fond hope that government will stand between them and the violent.

But the people who live off those taxes, those whom people elect to administer the society, and those who are employed to run the day-to-day administration of laws, and whose salaries are paid with those taxes — all of them betrayed the taxpayers. All betrayed the 11-year-old daughters of the taxpayers, on whose money they live the grand life. They betrayed them in the service of some fantasy of theirs, the fantasy of Multiculturalism.

They imported members of a Crime Syndicate masquerading as a religion and settled them among their own citizens. They spend the tax money to give the members of Crime Syndicate a lifestyle they do not earn, cannot earn. All in the service of their need to feel how evolved, how intellectually superior, how broadminded they are.

And they do not act against these criminals because in their eyes, their own sense of fairness is more important than the lives of 11-year-old girls whose fathers pay the taxes to make the ruling elite and its lifestyle possible.

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Shariah Police in Wuppertal

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A group of Islamic zealots have formed a vigilante squad in the German industrial city of Wuppertal, wearing homemade vests marked “shariah police” as they try to deter young Muslims from engaging in haram behavior. They have distributed leaflets describing the sleazy nightlife area they monitor as a “Shariah Controlled Zone.”

Many thanks to EuropeNews for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below are excerpts from an article about the Shariah Police in Wuppertal:

Islamists Patrol German City as Shariah Controlled Zone

A group of radical Islamists have formed a vigilante squad, wearing homemade vests marked “shariah police” as they try to deter young Muslims from drinking and vice in a German industrial city.

German police said Friday they are seeking ways to stop the bearded young fundamentalists, who have been sighted on several recent occasions at night.

The radicals have distributed leaflets describing the sleazy nightlife area they monitor near the main railway station of Wuppertal — a city of 340,000 — as a “Shariah Controlled Zone.” They wore fluorescent orange traffic-safety vests marked “shariah police” in English on the back.

The Wuppertal radicals, who have won some converts among young ethnic Germans and have exasperated authorities with previous publicity gambits, are followers of Salafism, a puritanical stream of Islam.

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Jailer, Torturer, and Murderer

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A French citizen named Nicolas Henin was kidnapped and held hostage last year by Syrian mujahideen. After his release, he identified Mehdi Nemmouche as one of his Syrian captors. Mr. Nemmouche is the primary suspect in the Jewish Museum murders in Brussels on May 24 of this year. Four people were shot to death in that attack.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for translating this AFP clip, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

There’s more on this topic from France24.

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Bad Stuff in the Name of Allah

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The following WTHR news report concerns a series of incidents that occurred a week ago at three churches in Columbus, Indiana. The TV presentation and article are unusually forthright for an MSM story about a possible incident of cultural enrichment. The reporter and Father Marcotte, the priest she interviews, are not only willing to talk about JIM, but one of the two Koran verses is actually quoted in the accompanying article. (The other one, 19:88, says: “And they say, ‘The Most Merciful has taken [for Himself] a son.’” [Sahih International])

Fr. Marcotte is even willing to forego all the usual mealy-mouthed Christian platitudes and say: “There’s a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah.”

Well, I’m glad he noticed!

Below are excerpts from the accompanying article:

3 Columbus Churches Vandalized With Graffiti Overnight

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Columbus Police said they’ve never had anything like it — three churches vandalized in the same night.

Someone spray painted them on the outside. It’s the words used, though, that have some people asking if this was more than a prank.

“It was just one word. It said ‘Infidels!’” Father Doug Marcotte said of what was spray painted on Saint Bartholomew’s Catholic Church in Columbus overnight Saturday.

Parishioners saw that, along with the word “Qur’an 3:151” on their way into mass Sunday morning.

“It’s certainly not a warm and fuzzy verse. It talks about the infidels, their refuge being the fire,” explained Father Marcotte.

Specifically, that passage of the Qur’an reads: “We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.”

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Boots for A Special Someone

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Once upon a time I ordered a nifty “gun” for my son. In truth, it was really for me but it had his name on the package under the Christmas tree. This gun shot a goodly amount of ping-pong balls before you had to collect the lot and reload. On snowy days when one was forced to stay indoors, those little balls ponged so lightly off their targets that nary a lamp was offended.

Ever since then we’ve been on the Hammacher-Schlemmer mailing list. It continues to be one of my favorite magazines: figuring out what gizmo has pride of place on the cover is fun. They never reveal the page so you’re forced to thumb through all the tempting “stuff” we Americans didn’t know we needed until we saw them on those pages meanwhile trying to stay on task to find the Mystery Object.

I’ve long since surrendered our email to them (I bought some Civil War maps on sale last year) so a not-too-burdensome number of advertisements also arrive our In Box. Today’s, for instance, was irresistible. I offer it to those of you who are not landlocked and have money to burn in quantity. Don’t they look like a must-have for John Kerry?

NOTE:The government will check you out before you may acquire these cool boots. So pay up any parking tickets you’ve “forgotten” and discretion would advise a quick check to be sure your library books aren’t overdue.

The Aquatic Thrust Boots

Description (I kid you not)

This is the patented diver propulsion system currently used by the U.S. military for combat swimmer applications. Only available from Hammacher Schlemmer for recreational use by U.S. citizens within U.S. territorial waters, its advanced design requires purchase approval from the U.S. Department of State. The system’s twin 6″-diam. thrusters mount to the outside of a diver’s lower thighs just above the knees while its power source and throttle setting secures around the waist. With a maximum underwater speed of 3 1/2 knots, the thrusters’ brushless electric motors provide virtually silent yet powerful operation that relegates diving fins to controlling attitude and direction. Unlike other handheld propulsion systems, this one provides hands-free operation, one of the reasons the military prefers it for reconnaissance, search and rescue operations, and hull inspections—and why they are ideal for snorkeling. Its lithium-ion battery provides a range that exceeds two miles; an extra battery may be carried and “hot swapped” underwater to extend operation. Compatible with commercial diving gear. Special conditions and guarantee limitations apply.

Item 12344 Price $31,500

It doesn’t say what the tax bite is on this equipment. One can only guess that it’s substantial. As for ROI, it just depends on how many fish you bring home for dinner and how often. Maybe thirty years if you go out every day??

Oookay…this ought to make the Baron’s Christmas shopping decisions easy, eh?

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/6/2014

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President Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration reform until after the November congressional elections. According to the most recent reports, Mr. Obama is concerned that any such action might endanger the re-election of Democrats in Congress. Hispanic groups have voiced their disappointment with the president’s decision.

In other news, the latest polls show that for the first time, more Scots want to secede from the UK than want to remain in the Union with England.

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“The Koran is a License to Kill”

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Last Thursday we posted the text of Geert Wilders’ speech in front of the Dutch Parliament during the debate on jihad. Below is the video of the speech, subtitled in English.

Many thanks to SimonXML for timing and editing the text, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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