Muslim Voices
Monia Mazigh, indomitable wife of Maher Arar, Canada's $10-million government-apology recipient, bleats about how unfair life is, and especially life in the West which overreacted horribly post 9/11 to victimize Muslims and conspicuous-appearing Middle East types, unfairly blaming and assuming them to pose violent threats to civil society. Why this reaction occurred is no great mystery; from out of the blue, a vicious threat to the order and safety of our daily lives arose, and we were helpless to thwart the bloodthirsty plans of Muslim extremists.
Excuses, excuses. According to Ms. Mazigh, "The attacks on the twin towers in the heart of Manhattan, the symbol of capitalism, were the perfect evidence Huntington's followers needed: Islam was at war with the West inside its own territory; Huntington was proved right!". Samuel Huntington, she took pains to reveal, was an American political science professor who wrote "The Clash of Civilizations?" In which he theorized that world conflicts would be defined through civilizations or cultures rather than through ideology.
In a sense, he was both right and wrong. In that civilization as we thought we knew it was finally imperilled by a medieval-era culture that reflected a religion which was also reflective of an ideology of supremacy. Ms. Mazigh bemoans the new reality that "Every time a group of young men were (sic) arrested and charged under the anti-terrorism act, and before knowing whether they were guilty or innocent, it was the ideal opportunity for some media outlets to feed the climate of mistrust and suspicion."
The media report on events of moment and of interest; they do not fabricate those events. Those groups of young men arrested and charged under the anti-terrorism act were apprehended in the planning stages of atrocities. A judge and jury would in due time weigh the evidence and find them guilty, or not, as justice revealed itself blind to subjective misdirection, insisting on being objectively just. But hers, thank heavens, is not the only voice of reason/unreason in the community of Muslim-Canadians.
When, in 2010, Salma Siddiqui of the Muslim Canadian Congress "strongly welcomed" Peter McKay's decision to cancel a speech at the Defence Department's Ottawa headquarters by imam Zjad Delic, under the fiction of Islamic History Month, her organization went on record speaking about being "troubled by the fact that Islamists had managed to penetrate the highest levels of the Ottawa bureaucracy and the political apparatus of all political parties".
Ahmed Hussen, head of the Canadian Somali Congress, went to Washington to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. He spoke to the phenomenon of young Somali men absenting themselves from their adopted countries in the West, to take up arms with the Islamist fundamentalist group al-Shabaab, because they had been cultivated into jihad right in their own Canadian-Somali community. Mr. Hussen laid the finger of blame on "radicals in our community".
A poll in 2007 by Environics indicated that 12% of Canadian Muslims found it justifiable that terror assaults were taking place in the name of Islam. They were reacting in particular to the arrest of the infamous Toronto 18 conspirators, most of which young Muslim men were Canadian born and raised. With 800,000 Muslims living in Canada, that would come out to 96,000 based on percentage, that found justification in the planned assault on Canada's security apparatus, the prime minister and assorted other targets.
Salim Mansur, political scientist at University of Western Ontario feels that Canadians must ignore political correctness and focus on immigration. Islamist groups, he says, use liberalism's principles of religious freedom to mount their anti-liberal agenda. "Since 9/11", he says, "the issue of immigration has become one of the most explosive in Canadian politics, as it is in other western countries; vital in discussing the future shape of the country in terms of its inherited cultural and political values."
Raheel Raza, a Toronto journalist and author, addresses the issue of Canada being one of the few western countries that has so far avoided being targeted. "That's the big question people don't ask. There is a good reason for this. Canada is a safe haven for the Islamists. They don't want to expose the fact that they have infiltrated into government departments and outreach programs."
The purpose being, needless to say, to covertly and subtly ingratiate themselves through invoking justice and fairness and the guilt and eagerness to please of forward-looking 'progressives' who would never admit to any concerns that those who inveigle themselves into trusted positions as advisers and colleagues, have a hidden agenda to subvert Canadian values and laws, and institute in their stead those of Islam, starting with Sharia.
The problem is that people would far prefer to listen to those like Monia Mazigh, whose moral affront at being held suspect looks like an open wound caused by Canadian society, certainly not by the malevolent activities of the Islamists embedded within the Muslim community, working diligently to recruit others to their cause, and in the process sullying the majority of Muslims who pose no danger either to themselves or to the greater society.
Their innocence and our naivete conspire to wreak ongoing human-made catastrophes with victims from among the Muslim community and the non-Muslim community.
Excuses, excuses. According to Ms. Mazigh, "The attacks on the twin towers in the heart of Manhattan, the symbol of capitalism, were the perfect evidence Huntington's followers needed: Islam was at war with the West inside its own territory; Huntington was proved right!". Samuel Huntington, she took pains to reveal, was an American political science professor who wrote "The Clash of Civilizations?" In which he theorized that world conflicts would be defined through civilizations or cultures rather than through ideology.
In a sense, he was both right and wrong. In that civilization as we thought we knew it was finally imperilled by a medieval-era culture that reflected a religion which was also reflective of an ideology of supremacy. Ms. Mazigh bemoans the new reality that "Every time a group of young men were (sic) arrested and charged under the anti-terrorism act, and before knowing whether they were guilty or innocent, it was the ideal opportunity for some media outlets to feed the climate of mistrust and suspicion."
The media report on events of moment and of interest; they do not fabricate those events. Those groups of young men arrested and charged under the anti-terrorism act were apprehended in the planning stages of atrocities. A judge and jury would in due time weigh the evidence and find them guilty, or not, as justice revealed itself blind to subjective misdirection, insisting on being objectively just. But hers, thank heavens, is not the only voice of reason/unreason in the community of Muslim-Canadians.
When, in 2010, Salma Siddiqui of the Muslim Canadian Congress "strongly welcomed" Peter McKay's decision to cancel a speech at the Defence Department's Ottawa headquarters by imam Zjad Delic, under the fiction of Islamic History Month, her organization went on record speaking about being "troubled by the fact that Islamists had managed to penetrate the highest levels of the Ottawa bureaucracy and the political apparatus of all political parties".
Ahmed Hussen, head of the Canadian Somali Congress, went to Washington to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. He spoke to the phenomenon of young Somali men absenting themselves from their adopted countries in the West, to take up arms with the Islamist fundamentalist group al-Shabaab, because they had been cultivated into jihad right in their own Canadian-Somali community. Mr. Hussen laid the finger of blame on "radicals in our community".
A poll in 2007 by Environics indicated that 12% of Canadian Muslims found it justifiable that terror assaults were taking place in the name of Islam. They were reacting in particular to the arrest of the infamous Toronto 18 conspirators, most of which young Muslim men were Canadian born and raised. With 800,000 Muslims living in Canada, that would come out to 96,000 based on percentage, that found justification in the planned assault on Canada's security apparatus, the prime minister and assorted other targets.
Salim Mansur, political scientist at University of Western Ontario feels that Canadians must ignore political correctness and focus on immigration. Islamist groups, he says, use liberalism's principles of religious freedom to mount their anti-liberal agenda. "Since 9/11", he says, "the issue of immigration has become one of the most explosive in Canadian politics, as it is in other western countries; vital in discussing the future shape of the country in terms of its inherited cultural and political values."
Raheel Raza, a Toronto journalist and author, addresses the issue of Canada being one of the few western countries that has so far avoided being targeted. "That's the big question people don't ask. There is a good reason for this. Canada is a safe haven for the Islamists. They don't want to expose the fact that they have infiltrated into government departments and outreach programs."
The purpose being, needless to say, to covertly and subtly ingratiate themselves through invoking justice and fairness and the guilt and eagerness to please of forward-looking 'progressives' who would never admit to any concerns that those who inveigle themselves into trusted positions as advisers and colleagues, have a hidden agenda to subvert Canadian values and laws, and institute in their stead those of Islam, starting with Sharia.
The problem is that people would far prefer to listen to those like Monia Mazigh, whose moral affront at being held suspect looks like an open wound caused by Canadian society, certainly not by the malevolent activities of the Islamists embedded within the Muslim community, working diligently to recruit others to their cause, and in the process sullying the majority of Muslims who pose no danger either to themselves or to the greater society.
Their innocence and our naivete conspire to wreak ongoing human-made catastrophes with victims from among the Muslim community and the non-Muslim community.
Labels: Canada, Immigration, Inconvenient Politics, Islamism
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