Hosting Hatred, Faulted for  Islamophobia

"Over the past months, it must be noted that the phenomenon of youth indoctrination has taken a turn that we could not have suspected."
"It appears clearer and clearer that the recruitment of young people goes through their activities on social media."
College Maisonneuve, Montreal

"There is no profile of terrorists. You can come from whatever (income), whether Canadian-born or foreigner, the profile of a terrorist is very diverse."
"What we need to work on is the motive. We need to be able to identify at an early stage those individuals who are being radicalized and, more importantly, we have to work on the radicalizers."
Federal Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney

"Imagine for a kid who is today 17. For eight years in a row, everything surrounding his community is a problem. How do we expect these kids to actually feel part of the Quebec nation?"
"They are born here They're not Algerians. They're not Syrians. They're really from here, but they feel lost, and religion can be a way out to feel part of a group."
Haroun Bouazzi, co-president, Association des Musulmans et des Arabes pour la Laicite au Quebec

"[Each time Quebec youth try to leave] there is one point in common, one individual – Adil Charkaoui. What is going on at that centre? What is Adil Charkaoui telling the children who attend? How is it that children who attend his centre and hear his teaching have a sudden desire to join the Islamic State?"
PQ MNA Agnès Maltais, National Assembly, Quebec City

Adil Charkaoui is photographed during a panel discussion following a screening of the documentary Secret Trial 5, in Montreal, Quebec on March 12 2015. Having previously spent six years under security certificates, Charkaoui has been linked to at least one student who travelled to join militants fighting in Syria.   (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)

In 2003, Adil Charkaoui had been arrested under a federal security certificate. He was suspected of being a sleeper agent for Islamist terrorism. He was able to successfully use Canadian law to fight in court against the security certificate and charges were dropped against the imam. Ten years later he was granted Canadian citizenship. He has been running courses in Islam at the College Maisonneuve CEGEP.

And in January five of the CEGEPs students were grouped with seven Montreal area teens who left the country for Syria. Another two of the students from the CEGEP were arrested last month as they attempted to leave the country. They were charged with trying to leave Canada for the purpose of committing terrorism abroad. One of the students who left for Syria in January had taken classes in Islam with Adil Charkaoui.

And on Wednesday the Islamic centre operating the Ecole Les Compagnons stated that one of the people arrested on Friday was also a registrant for Mr. Charkaoui's Islam courses. The Moroccan-born Mr. Charkaoui took pains to point out: "The fact I got my citizenship [in 2014] signed by the Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a letter of congratulations shows there’s no evidence I’m [a] threat to national security."

And he has decried a McCarthyish witch-hunt denying he has played any role in youth radicalization:  "It’s a new form of McCarthyism. It’s this social climate that is radicalizing people. Instead of telling Muslims they are partners, they are telling them they are suspects." But on the evidence, they are suspects; what would motivate teens to leave their homes, their communities, their country, to take up jihad?

As for the charges by Mr. Bouazzi, they fall into the same muddy water as Mr. Charkaoui's; in essence turning suspicion away from any possible role that they or the Muslim community from among whom there are inciters to jihad looking for new recruits, to blaming government agencies and other Canadian citizens for driving young Muslims toward jihad through suspicion and expectations that jihad holds great appeal for them.

When Canadians are being accused of Islamophobia, this represents an attack based on an unwillingness to identify Islam itself as the crux of the matter, the credo of jihad in expectation that the faithful will recognize their obligations to Islam as proselytizers, as defenders of the faith, a faith that exists for the sole purpose of broadening its footprint within the world community using all means to that end, including violence and death.

The world is increasingly unsettled by violent Islam. More desperate refugees are being created daily, seeking haven elsewhere than in the Muslim world which is preying on its own. When vicious jihadists terrify Muslim populations and Muslim governments act as violent predators against their own, and threats are issued against the West interfering in the free flow of blood in Africa and the Middle East, the issue is out in broad daylight, yet not recognized by Muslims.

Who far prefer to place responsibility and blame on the West for all the carnage, misery and upheaval transforming the world into anarchic wretchedness resulting from the pathology of pure Islamist dedication to jihad.