The Two Faces of Islam

"Unfortunately, it is hard to find an example of ISIS ruthlessness that is not sanctioned by Islamic texts. Even the execution of apostates or the taking of female sex slaves [known as Malakat Aymanukum, which literally translates to 'those females whom your right hands possesses'] can be justified by reference to [Islamic] religious texts."
"It is not enough for people of Muslim background -- myself included -- to simply reject ISIS as a 'non-Muslim' organization. We have a responsibility to own up to the ideological problems present in our midst. The problem has never been just ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood or Boko Haram. The problem is the tree that brings forth these fruits. This is the tree of Islamic fundamentalism and the ethnocentric and religious supremacist way of thinking that it demands from its adherents."
"Currently, the Muslim world is in a dark age, where freedom of thought is absent. The first step is to acknowledge that ISIS is indeed a Muslim problem that needs to be dealt with by Muslims. If we fail to do so, we risk seeing the lives of more people destroyed, both abroad and overseas."
Ahmed Shah, 4th-year medical student, University of Toronto

"[The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, patrolled by Israeli security] should only be in the custody of the Muslims. It should not be in the custody of the Christians, the Jews or anybody else."
"[Israelites are] a gang of the worst kind of mankind, if you can even call them mankind. They have no mercy, no respect, no holiness, no respect for anybody, for any humanity.”
"So our first duty towards this land, when we come to the understanding that it is a waqf and a trust is to fight along with our brothers and sisters by any means necessary. The United Nations declared that the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves, so we can give them any aid they want – weapons, money, expertise – we are not going to be shy about it."
"It is our duty, our individual duty, that we all share their jihad and their struggle against the Zionists by all means necessary, by all legal means and all Islamic means. We are not going to be shy about it, or wishy-washy about it."
Tarek Ramadan, imam, Muslim Association of Canada mosque, Vancouver, British Columbia

"This is an extremely serious development, especially in light of similar incidents at other mosques in Vancouver and across Canada."
"Raising funds for terrorist activities has no place in any house of worship, and the Muslim Association of Canada must move swiftly to dismiss this imam."
"Authorities have a duty to investigate this matter."
Michael Mostyn, CEO, B'nai B'rith

According to Imam Tarek Ramadan, recorded on videos recently released, Zionists represent the "worst of mankind", and Israelis are "an impure gang". He has been busy in his sermons inciting those who attend the Vancouver mosque to send "money, weapons and expertise" to Palestinians to enable them to fight the "Zionists" in Israel.

This is precisely the type of disturbingly hostile and dangerous incitement that University of Toronto medical student Ahmed Shah wrote of despairingly in his accurate portrayal of a religion whose Medieval attitudes have permeated the greater Muslim community worldwide in an attitude of contempt for other religions and adversarial violence having its place in the concept of jihad, violent terrorism in the name of Islam.

The video, translated by the international group MEMRI, has Imam Ramadan spurring his congregation to "fight, by any means necessary" against Zionists in the universal jihad, the holy struggle against the impure non-Muslims, and particularly Jews. "We are not going to be shy or wishy-washy about it", he declared. Thanks to the interpretive intervention of the Middle East Media Research Institute whose specialty is exposing these incidents, a spotlight shines on such incitements to violence.

B'nai B'rith, alarmed at this overt display of vicious incitement, has filed a complaint with the Vancouver Police Department and advocates as well for an inquiry into the actions of the Muslim Association of Canada whose operation the mosque is. And which is responsible for having posted the sermon on its YouTube channel. It's not only Islamic State which posts hateful incitements to violence, but obviously, other imams as well, preaching at local mosques.

The Canada Revenue Agency in September revealed that a mosque in Port Coquitlam, Masjid Al-Hidayah and Islamic Cultural Centre was "controlled or influenced" by a foundation out of Qatar that was involved in financing Hamas, the Gaza-centred Palestinian terrorist group on the government of Canada's terrorist list. Another, earlier complaint was filed by B'nai B'rith when a Jordanian cleric was recorded in Montreal reciting the verse: "O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him", in Arabic. Montreal police responded by issuing an arrest warrant for Muhammad bin Musa Al-Nasr.

Before that there was the case of Ayman Elkasrawy, dismissed from his teaching assistant employment with Ryerson University after commenting in an Arabic language sermon at Masjid Toronto that Muslims should "purity the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews". The Muslim Association of Canada mosque is separate from the B.C. Muslim Association serving approximately 40,000 Sunni Muslims on Canada's West Coast.

Hate-spewing Muslims have their allies in white supremacists for whom anti-Semitism is the very air they breathe:

Elsewhere in B.C., posters promoting anti-Semitism and white supremacy were discovered at the University of Victoria by a group called Anti-Racist Action Uvic. The posters contained the phrase “(((Those))) who hate us will not replace us,” and provided links to white supremacist websites. The parentheses are used on social media sites to identify Jews by placing the brackets around their names. The poster is reminiscent of the chant, “Jews will not replace us,” that was heard at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August.