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On Friday night, RCMP arrested 17 Canadian residents under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Hundreds of police were involved in co-ordinated raids on several locations in the Greater Toronto area. Those arrested are suspected of plotting to bomb Canadian targets, including the headquarters of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in downtown Toronto.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested 12 male adults and five youth and foiled plans for terrorist attacks against targets in southern Ontario.
Officials showed evidence of bomb making materials, a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms and what appears to be a door with bullet holes in it at a news conference Saturday morning.
"This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices," said assistant Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioner Mike McDonell said.
McDonell said that is three times the amount used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Captain’s Quarters has the names of the twelve adults arrested. Also apprehended were five “youths” who cannot be named.
Those arrested are described as Islamic extremists who have adopted the “al-Qaeda ideology”.
CSIS has been reporting for the past two years that a "new generation of jihadists" is emerging in Canada composed of youths angry about what they see as the oppression of Muslims.
CSIS now reports that a "high percentage" of the extremists on its target list are Canadian-born.
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Canadians should not be surprised to see terrorism coming so close to home, said former RCMP jihadism expert Tom Quiggin, now a university researcher in Singapore."A clear sense of denial exists in Canada about the degree to which terrorism activity occurs," said Mr. Quiggin, who is Canada's only court-recognized expert on jihadism.
"Political correctness is wielded as a weapon against anyone who dares to speak out. Yet some of the world's most infamous terrorists have operated in Canada almost unhindered for years.
It’s time to wake up, Canada. Those who favour politically correct multicultural pieties—Joe Clark’s inane definition of Canada as “a community of communities” comes immediately to mind—must realise that, in radical Islamism, we have one “community” that refuses to recognise the validity of other “communities”. If Islamism has its way, liberal rights and freedoms and other manifestations of Western “decadence” will be destroyed.
Kathy Shaidle at Relapsed Catholic is all over this.
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[...] CBC Whitehorse interviews local Muslims By StatGuy CBC Whitehorse makes a rare foray into the realm of investigative reporting. A radio reporter asked local Muslims for their reaction to last weekend's arrest of seventeen Canadian resident Muslims in southern Ontario on terrorism charges. The man who spoke on tape for the local Muslim community, made up of seven families, says he is withholding judgment until more information is released. From this morning's 6:30 am CBC Whitehorse radio news broadcast (not available online): "We have to find out actually the people who are involved in those things. We have to see their background, who they are and whether they were captured on baseless or with some proof." [...]
[...] Bill Blindspot, Toronto police chief By StatGuy Michelle Malkin is the latest to wonder why Canadian police are trying to downplay the obvious connection among the 12 adults and 5 “youths” arrested last weekend on charges of plotting terrorist acts. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police official coined the baneful phrase "broad strata" to describe the segment of Canadian society from whence Qayyum Abdul Jamal and his fellow adult suspects Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara, Asad Ansari, Shareef Abdelhaleen, Mohammed Dirie, Yasim Abdi Mohamed, Jahmaal James, Amin Mohamed Durrani, Abdul Shakur, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany and Saad Khalid came.. . .Undeterred by the obvious, Toronto police chief Bill Blair assured the public that the Muslim suspects "were motivated by an ideology based on politics, hatred and terrorism, and not on faith. . . . I am not aware of any mosques that these individuals were influenced by." Well, Chief Blindspot, try the Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education. That's the Canadian storefront mosque where eldest jihadi suspect Qayyum Abdul Jamal is, according to his own lawyer, a prayer leader and active member — along with many of the other Muslim males arrested in the sweep. [...]
[...] I’m all in favour of busting up terrorist cells before they have a chance to strike. But, at the same time, I have to ask: What’s the point if thugs are given free rein to terrorise law-abiding citizens in Caledonia? [...]
[...] Men held in UK linked to Canadian terror arrests By StatGuy UK police are holding two men who appear to be linked with the accused terrorists arrested last weekend in Canada. A 21-year-old Bradford resident was detained at Manchester airport on Tuesday night, and a 16-year-old was arrested this afternoon. The arrest of the teenager from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, comes as police search three properties in the Bradford area. [...]
[...] The parents of the accused terrorists share some of the blame for not visiting the mosque to monitor who's influencing their children. Dr Kanwar also rejects the claim that Muslim youth are susceptible to being radicalised because Canadian society marginalises them. "They marginalise themselves", he retorts. [...]
[...] Just another day on a Canadian university campus By StatGuy Against her better judgment, Margaret Wente joined a symposium panel at the University of Toronto to discuss the recent arrests of 17 Canadian-resident Muslims on terrorism charges. The discussion among the six panelists, including at least two Muslims, seemed to go well enough. All agreed that the problem stems not from anything directly related to Canada or even multiculturalism per se, but rather from the world-wide Islamic extremist movement. Also, suggestions of a broad anti-Muslim "backlash" among Canadians found no support among the panelists. [...]
[...] The oldest of the 17 accused terrorists arrested two weeks ago regularly preached jihad at a Toronto-area mosque and no one in leadership asked him to stop. Six of his young followers are among those charged with plotting terrorist attacks on Canada’s government and other public institutions. But even if someone had objected, it seems likely, based on Dr Kanwar’s experience, that the one who objected would have been rebuffed, if not ejected. [...]
[...] Pair detained in UK charged with murder conspiracy By StatGuy The two men detained in Britain earlier this month in connection with the terrorist arrests in Canada have now formally been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. From the online report at BBC News: A youth, 16, and a man, 21, have been charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiring to cause public nuisance by using poisons or explosives. [...]
[...] These arrests are said to be connected to the arrest at Manchester airport on 6 June of a 21-year-old Bradford resident as he got off a flight from Canada. That would be Aabid Hussain Khan, who is believed to have communicated with some of the 17 Canadians arrested on terrorism charges earlier this month. [...]
[...] the 17 Canadians arrested on terrorism charges in the Toronto area on 2 June. [...]
[...] Ul Haq has visited Canada on four previous occasions, but immigration officials have become more vigilant since the recent arrest of 17 Muslims on terrorism-related charges. [...]
[...] Behind every failed jihadist stands a nagging wife By StatGuy The Globe and Mail has “uncovered” thousands of chilling internet messages written by wives of leading figures among those arrested on terrorism charges in the Toronto area. When it came time to write up the premarital agreement between Zakaria Amara and Nada Farooq, Ms. Farooq briefly considered adding a clause that would allow her to ask for a divorce. [...]
[...] UK teenager charged with plotting terrorism By StatGuy The latest on some of the six arrested in the UK last month and believed connected to the 17 arrested in the Toronto area on 2 June in an alleged terrorist plot: Schoolboy faces terror charges [...]
[...] The National Post story draws interesting parallels between Mr Jabarah and the 17 Toronto-area Muslims arrested on terrorism charges in Toronto last month. All are home-grown terrorists, raised in Canada and recruited to radical Islam through local and internet connections. [...]
[...] Islamist teacher living in Canada illegally By StatGuy Pakistani scholar Farhat Hashmi entered Canada in October 2004 on a visitor's visa, has twice been denied permission to work, and was ordered to leave the country in September 2005. Yet she is still here. In the meantime, she has founded al-Huda Islamic Centre of Canada, a girls' school in Mississauga where she teaches a strict Islamist interpretation of the Koran. Moderate Muslims believe her lessons encourage extremist views among her students in Mississauga — the same Toronto suburb where many of the 17 men arrested last month on terrorism-related charges grew up and allegedly developed into radicals. Some of those young men's militant views are reputed to have been influenced by their ideologically inclined wives. [...]
[...] Canadian terror plot linked to Pakistan By StatGuy The first of 18 arrests in the alleged homegrown Canadian terrorist conspiracy occurred almost three months ago. Since then, an investigation by the National Post has uncovered several connections between the suspected Canadian plotters and Pakistan. Today, in the first of a four-part series, the Post reports on a terrorist training camp in Balakot, Pakistan, located in a mountainous region near the country’s eastern border with Kashmir. Young Muslim volunteers from Pakistan and beyond have long trekked here to Balakot to train for jihad, and one of them was allegedly a Canadian named Jahmaal James. [...]
[...] The conspirators were, at the time, an unlikely bunch of mass murderers, for they were economically privileged, well-educated, apparently secularised, and uninterested in politics. The 18 Canadians arrested earlier this year on terror-related charges fit such a profile, as do scores of others arrested elsewhere in the world. [...]
[...] If Little Mosque gets on the air, how long before Canadian flags are set ablaze in Pakistan, Gaza, Indonesia, Egypt, Syria? (And we can’t rule out Pickering or Mississauga, either.) [...]
[...] Canadas terror trial now underway By StatGuy Last June, 17 Canadians were arrested in the Toronto area and charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act. An 18th suspect was apprehended in August. [...]
[...] Two Canadian Muslims charged in anti-Jewish violence By StatGuy More homegrown Islamic radicalism? Two native-born Muslims have been arrested and charged with multiple offences in connection with two firebomb attacks against Jewish institutions in Montreal. They appeared in court this afternoon. Seven months after a molotov cocktail was thrown at a Montreal Jewish school, Montreal police arrested two suspects: Azim Ibragimov, 22, and Omar Bulphred, 24.. . .The two Canadian-born Muslims are charged with 9 counts, including conspiracy to commit armed robbery, conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to forcibly confine someone, and formulating threats to the Jewish community. [...]
[...] The caste system was perpetrated by a small cabal of cruel pseudo-Hindus. Sounds like the “tiny minority of extremists” line one hears when asking why so many Muslims seem intent on blowing us up. [...]
[...] Similar blood lust among Muslim wives turned up in the investigation of the Toronto-area terrorist suspects. [...]
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