This is Canada: A Haven for Raving Radical Islamists

"[Muslim youth] are so brainwashed and taken by the kafir societies we live in ... we refuse to teach our children of al-wala and al-bara [loyalty and disavowal] and that Muslims are different from kuffar."

"They are all evil. Every single one of them. There may be some rare circumstances, where we would say: 'OK, voting may benefit us'. This is not one of them! They are all evil and filthy."

"Cursed be Israel from its inception to its end. May we see it dismantled and destroyed in our lifetime."

"[Uttering the words] Merry Christmas is worse than murder or adultery]. They are nothing compared to the sin of congratulating and greeting the non-Muslims on their false festivals."

"[Jews are] the brothers of the monkeys and the swines, the people whose treachery is well known."

Imam Younus Kathrada, Muslim Youth of Victoria

A video recording from just before Christmas Day 2018, shows Sheikh Younus Kathrada telling congregants of the Muslim Youth of Victoria, B.C., that wishing people a Merry Christmas is worse than murder. Photo by Still images from video/via MEMRI.org

 

This South-Africa-born imam calls publicly for the "annihilation of Jews"; he claims that Canadian society is "evil and filthy" for tolerating homosexuality, and praises the Taliban. He was invited by the University of Victoria's Muslim Student's Association to deliver a lecture with the title The Importance of Connecting with the Muslim Community. "This is a great opportunity to learn about the value of unity, support, and connection among fellow Muslims", the association, a sanctioned University of Victoria student club, describes the the lecture.

On his Facebook page Kathrada posted videos praising the beauty of dying for the faith, that martyrs are forgiven all sins and given their place in paradise to be married to "72-black-eyed houris". "We beg Allah to honour us and place us among the martyrs." His group, Muslim Youth of Victoria, serves to radicalize Muslim youth, to encourage among them terrorist acts. Devotees are reported to be young and immersed in social media. Kathrada prayed in a sermon for the annihilation of "the plundering, transgressor Jew".

 

Sheikh Younus Kathrada in a 2018 video. Photo by MEMRI.org

Operating from the second floor of a nondescript commercial building, his Muslim Youth of Victoria sermons have been featured by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), translated for transcriptions of their extremist content. Following the grisly murder of a teacher in France, beheaded by Islamists, Kathrada spoke of the murdered teacher as "a cursed, evil-spirited filthy excuse for a human being". He praised the October 7 massacres in Israel for bringing "humiliation" to the Zionists: "Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the plundering aggressor Jews."

"The enemies and opponents of Islam mock the mujahadeen, they label them as terrorists, and whatnot."

"I warn myself and the rest of  you: Let us not mock those who are fighting for the sake of Allah."

"The Jews have an ancient and dark history of bloodshed and breaking covenants and treaties."

"If Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them Himself, But He ordered armed struggle. Listen! He ordered armed struggle to test some of you by means of others."

Victoria's only official mosque, Masjid Al-Iman, distanced itself in 2019 from Kathrada. Kathrada's Muslim Youth of Victoria "do not represent the view of the Muslim youth in Victoria nor the view of the mosque", a statement from the mosque's imam, Ismail Nur said, renouncing Kathrada's style of Islam. The UVic Muslim Student's Association has a track record of inviting rabid Islamist fanatics to speak.

Now, it seems that mere days before the invited Kathrada is to speak, the University of Victoria has refused to allow the imam to address the intended audience on the grounds of the university.

Online poster for The Importance of Connecting with the Muslim Community. Photo by UVic Muslim Students Association Via Instagram

Canada's Contribution to Global Terror and Attacks on Israel

"It's dangerous for Israel, and it may also be dangerous for Canada."

"It's a wake-up call for the international communities that something is happening here. Within the international context, it's dangerous."

"The most important and prevalent feeling you'll encounter among any Israeli is that we want to have our hostages back. Everybody is looking for this situation to end. Israel wants peace. Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours."

Iddo Moed, Israeli ambassador to Canada

"While we are relieved that no innocent lives were lost in this attack, we are deeply shocked that a Canadian citizen would travel to Israel and retraumatize the Netiv Ha'asara community, already devastated by the twenty lives stolen in Hamas' murderous rampage on October 7."

"This incident highlights the potential consequences of pervasive misinformation surrounding Israel's conflict with Hamas -- where Israel is demonized and held solely responsible, and where Hamas has been absolved of responsibility for the impact on Palestinian civilians of the war they started."

"When demonstrations glorify terrorists as martyrs and call for global intifada without condemnation from our political leaders, it sets the stage for tragedies like today's attack in the Israeli town of Netiv Ha'asara."

David Cooper, vice-president of government relations, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Security guards confront a charging attacker at the entrance to Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli community near Gaza. Photo by X.com

How could it be otherwise? A growing population of Muslims in Canada, encouraged by order of the government in preferential immigration and refugee intake, among whom there are invariably Islamists who percolate their version of Israel and Zionists as white colonial settlers with no business being in the Middle East, the cradle of Judaism, arguing that only the destruction of the Jewish state, and just coincidentally Jewish lives will do justice to the aspirations of Arab 'Palestinians' for a state of their own on traditional Judean geography.

Second generation Muslim-Canadians, long steeped in narratives of the evils that Jews bring to the world, in particular the Jewish scheme to exile Palestinians from what they claim is their sole territory, the map of Palestine dating back to the Roman era denoting the homeland of Jews, treated by Rome as an occupied provincial holding in their greater domination of the world during that era of Roman military and social might. Viral resentment at the United Nations' Partition Plan zeroed in on Israel as a threat to Palestinian Arabs whose leadership incited them to 'resist' the 'occupation'.

In Islamic centres, mosques, social gatherings, social media, an amplification of the traditional convention of Jew-blame and hatred has percolated to the top in the wake of the terrorist Hamas invasion of southern Israel on October 7 where mind-bogglingly gruesome sadistic savagery was  unloosed on unsuspecting Israelis and the military outposts on the border with Gaza. Outdoing even their grisly penchant for blood and slaughter, thousands of terrorists filmed themselves indulging in and celebrating a mass slaughter, rape, mutilations, abductions of innocent civilians.

Despite the horrors of inhumanity perpetrated by well-rehearsed operatives of Palestinian terrorist groups, dismayingly, the international community has been fairly receptive to Hamas supporters in their midst as citizens of Europe and North America claiming that their battle for sovereign status from under the repressive heel of a Jewish state engrossed in a mission of Palestinian genocide, championing and supporting terrorists as liberators. In Canada and elsewhere around the globe, Hamas sympathizers have roused the latent antisemitism in communities.

In Canada in particular where the reigning Liberal government of Justin Trudeau feels itself heavily dependent on the goodwill of Muslim voters as a bloc that responds to the Liberal message, the message is that there will be no repercussions for the verbal violence claiming the need for a 'final solution' to the Jewish question, for the liberation of Palestine, for a global intifada. Characterizing the Palestinian 'protests' roiling society as merely free speech in action, deliberately overlooking the calls to destroy Israel and kill Jews, the Trudeau government sees nothing amiss.

Predictably, the same organized Palestinian students who planned and carried out protests and university campus encampments with the aid of foreign funding and non-university Palestinian groups whose format of slander and abuse upset normalcy in the social order, seeing no action taken by any level of government, giving them free rein to do as they would in clearly unlawful and criminal acts of intimidation and violence, would feel free to escalate.

Leading someone like Canadian citizen Zachareah Adam Quraishi to up the ante by travelling to Israel for the express purpose of committing violent extreme acts of antisemitism in Israel. A tourist visa gained this man entry to the country where he undertook to rush guards outside a southern Israel town to knife them, shouting "free Palestine!" at Israeli security guards who met him on his own terms and shot him to death as he was attacking them.

The town was Netiv Ha'asara, a farming community, one of many devastated by the terrorist attack of October 7, where in Netiv Ha'asara, twenty of its residents were murdered. Despite Jewish Canadian groups appealing endlessly to the federal government to put an end to the violent rhetoric and escalating violence against Jews in Canada, there was no response from the federal government, itself content to allow the anti-Israel protests to continue and as they did, create predictable escalation.

"Canada has a history of having foreign fighters -- Canadian citizens go off to distant lands in the Middle East and commit egregious acts of violence."

"We were a country that garnered, and rightfully so, international attention during allied operations to counter ISIS, because of how many Canadians have gone off to join the caliphate."

"You have people calling for the erasure of the only Jewish state standing in front of crowds of thousands calling for the death of Zionists -- which is just a code word for Jews; you have decapitated mannequin heads of Bibi Netanyahu being kicked around like soccer balls in Toronto; you have synagogues being burned; you have Jewish day schools being shot at."

"When the overwhelming majority of this goes on without any repercussions, you allow these ideas to take root and become normalized."

Casey Babb, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute