Shutting The Barn Door

The leftists among us claim that those who evince any suspicion about the activities of some within the Muslim community are quite simply "haters".  It is their opinion that these "haters" suffer from an unfortunate malady, one that others should recognize and take action to ensure that it is not communicated as a type of mass psychosis among other Canadians.

And we learn, concomitantly, from our security agencies that Canada has been well infiltrated by malign groups espousing the superiority of fanatical Islam, those who are dedicated to achieving a victory of jihad over the world of the West.  These infiltrators have recognized deftly how useful Westerners can be in their anxiety to appear unjudgemental and accepting, bearing great pride in an undisturbed pluralism.

And while it is true that Canada, like the United States and increasingly European countries, have gradually accepted greater numbers of Muslims from countries all over the world to share in the fount of opportunities to be found in developed, democratic countries, and that most Muslims who become citizens of their new countries have the welfare of that country in mind and are loyal to it, not all are.

In fact, through polls taken in Britain, it has been established that a majority of Muslims who have migrated there feel sympathy and are in support of the activities of the violent and the fundamentalists who represent their religion.  Even while those very fundamentalists who have become 'radicalized', have little empathy for those who share a more gentle representation of Islam, many of whom are considered traitors to Islam.

These fanatical Muslims who infiltrate Western societies with a view to stealthily making themselves appear loyal to their new countries while furtively working to undermine that country's laws and at the same time fomenting slanderous accusations against other members of the society whose ethnicity, heritage and religion they find offensive, seek to destabilize normalcy and the social contract that gives all citizens equal rights.

They do so by making themselves appear as sympathetic figures, by persuading others that the plight of their co-religionists elsewhere around the world is unjust, and that Israel, in this instance, is the source of problems that make the Middle East an intractable den of plots and unjust wars in attempts to control other countries' territories and resources, inflicting great harm on non-Jews in the process.  And they learn how to effectively manipulate the sensitivities of the left, along with the laws meant to benefit all.

The presence of the embassy of Iran in Canada has demonstrated just how interfering a country can aspire to be in the affairs of the host country.  Through the auspices of the diplomatic mission in Ottawa, Iranian diplomats make contact with Iranian-Canadians who are encouraged to espouse the traditions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and to cast aspersions on the rights of other Canadians; further to make inroads politically to undermine Canadian values and traditions.

Mouna Diab, a Muslim 'activist' living in Quebec, was last week charged with smuggling firearms parts to Hezbollah.  This is, of course, a kind of tokenism.  Hezbollah is well supplied with arms, many of them fairly sophisticated, through its conduit, Syria, and its major sponsor, Iran.  Even though the United Nations has stationed a peace-keeping group on the Lebanese-Israel border, the UNIFIL troops, tasked with preventing the smuggling of arms into Lebanon for Hezbollah, sees no evil, stops none of it.

Mouna Diab, an active defender of Muslim rights and the right of Muslim women to be respected for wearing the hijab and the niqab, vociferously defending Muslim cultural traditions, obviously had an urge to do her part as a defender of Arab rights.  While she deplored the 'Islamophobia' she identifies in the Western world, she actively engaged in aiding and abetting a terrorist group, recognized by Canada as such. 

She was responsible for purchasing AR-15-type rifle parts in Montreal and shipping them to Lebanon in packages carried among the luggage of members of her ethnic community who, according to the RCMP, were unaware of the contents of the packages they were asked to deliver.  Hezbollah is "primarily involved in logistics and operational support activities and fundraising destined for terrorist purposes overseas", the RCMP stated as they charged Ms. Diab.

Canadian security officials warned the Canadian Jewish community in 2008 that Hezbollah might have plans to launch a revenge attack, following the assassination in Damascus of its chief-in-terror, Imad Mugniyah.  Hezbollah itself posted this tribute to the man on its website, last year:

"They thought silencing him would do the trick.  They thought wrong....  With every passing month he asks revenge.  And with every passing year, they ask themselves when, where, and how they will taste his revenge."

 As sinister and pointed a warning as any.  For "Anyone who has any connection to Israel, civilians or not, are potential targets", acknowledges the national director of legal affairs at B'nai Brith Canada.  The Bulgaria attack that killed five Israeli tourists as useful a case in point as any.  That attack is held to have been one of many; at least 20 such incidents in the past year alone.

"Clearly this is not an isolated incident, there have been quite a few attempts, and unfortunately this one succeeded.  It shows a willingness and capacity, meaning that they are actively involved in identifying what could be seen as soft targets and have the means to carry out an attack."  Doron Horowitz, director of national security infrastructure, Toronto-based Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

"This is not Europe.  I would say that there are different challenges, but I would say at the same time that Jewish communities in North America are responsible for a level of preparedness that will help mitigate and prevent such incidents."

But "such incidents" have been attempted in Thailand, India, Kenya, Georgia, Cyprus and Azerbaijan.  Iran and its proxy militia Hezbollah are anxious to do as much harm as possible to the State of Israel.  They can achieve that goal when guards are down, and when they have the aid of those in the community where they mean to strike who sympathize with their goal.

Within Canada there are ample sympathizers.  Enough so that a billboard with the visage of the current Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah, was put on display in Windsor, Ontario.  Both Hezbollah and Hamas flags have been given prominence in Montreal and Toronto at various demonstrations, including demonstrations at which sympathetic Canadian MPs have been present.

Fawzi Ayub was one sleeper agent who lived in Canada for years.  A member of Hezbollah, he sometimes calls himself Frank Boschi.  He was dispatched by Hezbollah to Romania to hijack a passenger plane; the FBI considers him to be 'armed and dangerous', and he appears on their Most Wanted Terrorists listing.  He married twice in Canada, worked at a supermarket, then went to Israel on Hezbollah's behalf on a bombing mission as a member of Islamic Jihad.

"Everything just for God", he said to Israeli authorities when he was arrested after enquiring about buying components for a bomb.  He was on a mission from God.  When Israel freed him as one of 436 prisoners exchanged for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers, when Ayub arrived at Beirut airport, he walked into the arms of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's chief terrorist.