"This Is Your October 7"

"Exporting the revolution, giving birth to and exporting terrorist groups is part of the Iranian regime."

"The names [of the groups] are not important. Terror is the most important mission inside and outside Iran, outside is even more important."

"These regimes have to reflect their image, superiority and power, in order to expand. Iranians actually cooperate with Russia and China. They learned it from them."

"Western countries are kind of honest and naive, and in obeying the law and liberal and democratic values, they sometimes fall in that trap of not knowing they help these dictators."

"They use your systems of being honest and good and trying to help the poor, and they abuse it." 

Beni Sabti, terrorism expert, Institute for National Security Studies

Muslims pray outside McGill University's Roddick Gate during pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal Monday October 7, 2024 on the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (John Mahoney / MONTREAL GAZETTE)

 

Born in Iran, Bani Sabti with the Institute for National Security Studies specializes in Iranian culture, influence and media. He knows, intimately, whereof he speaks. And he doubtless views the West and its governments as credulous fools. Anti-Israel supporters of Hamas flaunting their presence in the streets of Canada do not appear to alarm anyone in authority in the country. While they passionately espouse the glories of the religion of peace, he knows that Islam regards itself as the 'place of peace', while regarding non-Islamic countries as 'places of war'. The faithful in Islam are obligated to help transform such places of war into places of peace.

 

Massing to enact mass prayers outside of churches, in front of an Israeli consulate or embassy, they boldly proclaim their mission, but no one appears to be interested in that mission. The open threats against Canada's Jewish population, the 'pro-Palestinian' mobs march in residential areas where Jews are known to live, unison-shouting 'go back to Poland', 'Final Solution', and 'From the river to the sea'. Jews whose residences are nearby are informed by police not to antagonize the mobs. No move is made to remove the threatening processions disturbing the peace and tranquility of residential areas.

 

This is a new Canada that appears to value a conciliatory approach to unlawful, threatening behaviour to any of its citizens, while instructing those same citizens  under fire by malignant forces to lock themselves away in their homes. The police are invested in the safety of all municipal dwellers in areas they serve, and for Jews that safety is to ignore the viral threats surrounding them while police spend their time aiding the malefactors to 'keep the peace'.

 

Beni Sabti was born and raised in the Islamic Republic. Demonstrations and mass street prayers became the norm during the 1978 Iranian Revolution. Islamic students in North America and in Europe took part in those mass street prayers along with those taking place in Iran. Their efforts aided the Islamic Revolution to succeed and the Shah of Iran to be dethroned and exiled along with his family. 

 

British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the University of California, Hamid Algar, described mosques as the principal organizers of the revolution, where "mass prayers, demonstrations and martyrdom were -- until the very last stage -- its principal weapons".  

 

According to a recent Global News report, some 450 individuals involved with Hamas have ties to Canada, either through temporary visas, landed immigration status or studying at Canadian universities. This, in the last decade during the governance of the Liberal party when security clearances were lax, and the government policy was one of open doors, declared so by then-prime minister Justin Trudeau. Thus, immigrants, refugee-class and migrants streamed into Canada to enrich its culture and social life through an Islamist lens.

 

The Palestine Youth Movement held a downtown rally from Yonge and Dundas Sts. to the Israeli Consulate on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, before shutting down the intersection to traffic. Photo by Caryma Sa'd /Special to the Toronto Sun

 

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada ensures that freedom of speech and the right to peaceful gatherings are enabled, rights reflected in any democratic country. It is doubtful that those Charter Rights took into account mass demonstrations against an identifiable minority demographic, where threats against Jews, and support of terrorist groups proscribed by Canada's own laws, and destruction of both public and private property takes place, would be regarded as a civil right. 

 

A mass prayer session that took place directly in front of Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica, many more in the streets, and at times deliberately blocking traffic, all point to the reality that while these demonstrations initially attacked Jews in Canada, the intended and eventual targets are broader and encompass all of society guilty of not having submitted to the religion of peace. 

 

Beni Sabti points out that the passion of faith requires from its adherents more than religious fervor and a commitment to get out in public and loudly and fervently declare its intentions which only they alone are able to adequately interpret as a general threat. Money, he explains, funds terror, and its function complements the sympathy of oblivion that takes place in countries of the West. Where in the past western intellectuals have been sympathetic to Islamic political movements, their numbers have swelled.

 

As willing contributors to the Islamist totalitarian agenda, academics and unions, presumably in support of the 'underdog', have gone out of their way to assist the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Republic of Iran, monied and influential Qatar, and all their dedicated terrorist groups in a jihad comprised of persuasion on the one hand, violence on the other, achieve the goal of Islamist conquest.  

 

Palestinian supporters pray at the encampment on McGill University campus Monday, May 6, 2024 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

 

A mere two weeks following the October 7, 2023 terror attack in southern Israel -- by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fortified by enthusiastic Palestinian civilians from Gaza, estimated as four thousand-strong in number that launched a deadly rampage of mass murder, torture, rape and hostage-taking -- Montreal imam Adil Charkaoui declaimed before a large anti-Israel gathering for Allah to "kill the enemies of the people of Gaza and to spare none of them". 

"This is your October 7. Closing the door and being safe inside the houses and not knowing what is going on outside and not filming, it's your kibbutz, it's your village."

"Closing the door, and saying, OK, we are safe ... but they come. This is the problem. When you retreat, they come after you. When you give them more space physically, they will come, and they will burn offices, and they will burn churches."

"The masses in the streets, it's not just about praying. It's about conquering your city. It's about conquering the streets. This is something very, very dangerous..."

"Canadians don't know about this culture. That this is what is going on in the Middle East. Those who are in the streets are the winners, they take the regime. This is what happened in Iran, in Syria, in Iraq. Walking is a conquering thing, so Canada has to deal with that."

"It's their state, you are the enemy now. This is what they are telling you. You can't do anything against masses..."

"If Canada does not want to be a victim of the next October 7, it needs to neutralize these mass gatherings."

Beni Sabti 

Imam Adil Charkaoui, speaking Arabic, denounced "Zionist aggressors" and called on Allah to "kill the enemies of the people of Gaza and to spare none of them." Photo X