Lest We Doubt

A secret intelligence report titled "Canada: Bi-Annual Update on the Threat from Terrorists and Extremists", now a year old, recently revealed through the Access to Information Act, indicates that there is little reason for Canada's spy network and security agents to feel more relaxed than latterly about the presence of al-Qaeda-inspired threats to the country. While the document has revealed three major terror groups, within that reserved for al-Qaeda, is also listed Hezbollah.

Rather uncomfortingly, the report points out: "AQ's Islamist extremist ideology continues to inspire individuals in Canada. AQ-inspired groups and individuals present a threat of terrorist attacks in Canada." The other two groups mentioned in the report were the recently-crushed, defeated, demolished, outflanked, outmaneuvered, repressed, repelled, routed, trampled, and whipped Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by the equally brutish Sri Lankan national military. And, of course, little has recently been heard of Sikh extremists.

Noting that the Hezbollah presence in Canada is a fund-raising arm, not known to have been responsible as yet for any planned terror acts in the country. Does that not give us a warm and comfy feeling, to know that this fundamentalist Islamist Lebanon-based, Iranian-supported-and-supplied militant-jihad proxy has an established presence in Canada? That they have found it useful which indicates that they have found amply-rewarding funding support among Canadians.

That's just creepy, one of those things that are hard to comprehend, yet on the other hand, perhaps not. The very same issue of the very same newspaper, a few pages on in the 'letters to the editor' section gives us a clue to why their presence in Canada is a useful one, acceptance-wise. One letter from a writer revealing Dionne Brand, a social activist, champion of the black, gay, and Muslim community recently appointed Poet laureate of Toronto by its thrilled mayor David Miller quotes him thusly:

"Her passion to tell Toronto stories to the world should serve as an inspiration to all Torontonians." What a triumph of social egalitarianism; in one fell stroke of genius, the city brings aboard a visible minority representative of feminist entitlement and religious intolerance. For this new Poet laureate also distinguished herself as a proud spokesperson for the population of this great metropolis by signing the Toronto Declaration slamming the Toronto International Film Festival's Tel Aviv city-to-city celebration.

It's abundantly clear who Ms. Brand does not represent, but we now know she represents gays et al, Jew-baiters and fascist-feminists. Another letter on that same page is from a Muslim woman expressing her outrage at the newspaper having published the notorious Danish cartoon, to illustrate an interview with its maker, Kurt Westergaard, on a brief Canadian tour. That very cartoon, and others published alongside it by Jyllands-Posten to test the waters of free expression.

When the cartoons were deliberately unleashed for their provocative effect a year later in the Middle East, the relatively mild rebukes from the Muslim Danish community were magnified to a level throughout the Muslim world hardly anticipated by the Danes. Wild rioting, wholesale destruction of property, beatings, killings, and a crippling economic boycott. The casual onlooker might observe that the newspaper got a response, but not quite perhaps on the scale it might have anticipated.

This letter-writer unburdened herself by writing her opinion of the Canadian newspaper that had published the interview and accompanying cartoon by observing: "It is very discriminatory of the National Post to publish one of those disrespectful cartoons of our beloved prophet Muhammad. I have no words to describe how I feel about the man who drew the cartoon, or how I feel about your ever one-sided newspaper.

"Media like yours has pushed people to the wall, from where the only escape is to turn against you. So I blame the media for creating those so-called terrorists. And most of all, media like the Post is responsible for creating the conditions that led to 9/11. As for the Danish cartoonist, I can only wish him the best of this world because he has a sure pass to hell in his afterlife."

There, a revealing look at the mindset of some within the Canadian population. Of particular concern, points out this report, are those within Canada who have found the al-Qaeda mindset attractive, defensive, and deserving of their support. Among them those who travel to Pakistan or Somalia for specialized training in explosives and other armaments. With the intention of returning to Canada to dabble in their new expertise.

And just, by the bye, surprise everyone. These geographically, socially, politically misplaced religious psychopaths, it is worthwhile remarking upon, present as much a concern to the community of moderate, law-abiding Muslim-Canadians as they do to Canada's intelligence agencies. The pity of it is that we hear outright denunciations of the jihadists as infrequently from that cowering community as we do from the tight-lipped latter community.

Each for their own, explicable reasons.