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June 05, 2006
About that "aggressive tone"
More via Gadsden Flag...Earlier today we pointed out the "aggressive tone" footnote to the AP story on the lead Canadian terrorist. For more on what you're not hearing from the US media about the Mississauga bust, we evidently must rely on The Mississauga News here ("Suspect's angry rants shocked MP"):
Streetsville area MP Wajid Khan was so concerned with the radical preachings of a Mississauga terror suspect that he visited a storefront mosque in Meadowvale last year to hear him speak.
Khan visited the Ar-Rahman Islamic Centre, a storefront mosque sandwiched between a Hasty convenience store and a beauty salon in a small Meadowvale strip mall, to hear the angry rants of 43-year-old Qayyum Abdul Jamal.
"I was concerned that he had found a bunch of young kids and he was able to influence them," Khan told an American newspaper yesterday. "I think we have to be extremely vigilant in the Muslim community. We have to watch out for people who are trying to teach disaffected youths that it's the Muslims against the rest, a war of civilizations."
...Jamal's belief that the West is at war with Muslims, boiled over at the mosque, others say. His preaching was so strident it startled Khan, who said he stopped at the mosque last year on his regular rounds of his riding."
...and here ("Terror suspect preached to youth"):
Sources say that during the 2004 federal election campaign, Jamal told members that Islam "forbid" participation in politics and more recently accused Canadian soldiers of going to Afghanistan to rape women....When asked by reporters yesterday why he was so certain of the men's innocence, Lela said, "Because these people are so obvious, they are here all the time. Terrorists tend to be hidden...underground...Although many have described Jamal as soft-spoken, it was his outspoken Wahhabist views..."
...and here ("Six suspects attended Meadowvale mosque"):
"[Jamal] spent a lot of time with youth," said Faheem Bukhari, a director of the Mississauga Muslim Community Centre who attends prayers at the Ar Rahman mosque. He said Jamal never openly embraced violence, but was "very vocal and ... could incite these young kids for jihad."
Posted by bill at June 5, 2006 03:56 PM
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