Sunday, September 12, 2010
We will remember, by Francis Chartrand
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Quebec - Allahu Akbar: "I want to hunt koufars Canada. Only their deaths will make Islam triumph"
Note that "koufars" refers to the infidels, or non-Muslims.
A Quebec man has posted messages on the Internet encouraging Al Qaeda to attack Canada. This message is part of a series of messages similar to the tone of concern to authorities in the fight against terrorism.
The author of the messages, who uses the pseudonym Altar, praised terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden and asked why Al-Qaeda was focusing its efforts only on Europe instead of Canada.
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Labels: Al-Qaeda, Québec, Terrorism
Canada - They wanted to convert Native Americans to Islam and the Quebecers inciting genocide
The group of alleged terrorists arrested in Toronto in the summer of 2006 would have had the intention to convert the Quebec Native to Islam, to get them to kill all Quebecers to make the province to First Nations.
This was said the RCMP informant Mubin Shaikh trial of one of 11 defendants in this case. The 20 year old is accused of conspiracy, but it can not be named because of his age at the time of the facts alleged against him.
This allegation of murder conspiracy, even genocidal, against Quebecers is a new element in the case. All targets of the alleged terrorist group identified so far were located in Ontario and the group would have intended to hit the CN Tower, the CBC building, the headquarters of the RCMP and CSIS in Toronto the building of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa and Pickering.
According to the informant Mubin Shaikh, the alleged leader of the group planned to convert Aboriginal people of Quebec to the Muslim religion, for they killed all Quebecers. The objective of this project would have been to Montreal, Quebec and the rest of the province with First Nations.
Mubin Shaikh said that the alleged conspiracy planned in Ontario and Quebec have been undertaken by importing weapons and bombs purchased from Tamil terrorists who have traveled through Mexico.
The alleged leader of the group had even considered buying a property in Opasatika in northern Ontario, to plan its operations and protect themselves against the forces of order in the event that the group was discovered.
Strategy Defense
The defense seeks to demonstrate that the alleged leader of the group was a visionary who had crazy ideas and who had neither the money nor arms, nor the fighters to carry out all these plots.
The cons-examination of Mubin Shaikh also reveals that the leader was penniless his group believe that the money would eventually come through fundraisers in the Muslim community. To hear the scale of plots incurred by the alleged leader, Mubin Shaikh admitted to the bar he did not know whether to laugh or shake the projects were so ridiculous and improbable. Only the alleged leader believed that his ideas were realistic, "said the witness.
Mubin Shaikh said that the suspected terrorists would be split into two groups because of deep disagreements over how to conduct a holy war in Canada.
The trial continues.
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Labels: Arab World, Canada, Hostile races, Islam, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism
Canada - A haven for villains, by Francis Chartrand
Canada would be far too lax in applying its rules on immigration and refugee policy. Studies show that terrorists and Islamists manage to enter the country pretending to be political refugees. This is due in large part to the way Canada treats refugee cases. While most countries do not let in on their territory that 15% of asylum seekers, Canada lets in more than half. In addition, Canada is not enforcing its policy of deportations correctly. A refugee found guilty of terrorist conspiracy and subject to deportation in 1988 still lives in Canada.
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Labels: Canada, Francis Chartrand, Terrorism
Thursday, February 25, 2010
That's the hell of what are living some very good natural born Quebecers in Chomedey, by Francis Chartrand
A confrontation between dozens of students from high school and St-Maxime Laval police erupted in the early afternoon on the grounds of the school, in Chomedey.
Approximately 200 young people have defied the police, in addition to throwing rocks and chunks of ice.
Not since Tuesday to understand why the situation escalated to this point.
Rumors of fights between two groups of young people from school were then lured police to the scene. Three young people were then interviewed in three cruisers. "The vehicles had been somewhat shaken by young people surrounding them," says Sergeant Francois Dumais, the Laval police.
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Version La Presse:
According several young people interviewed on the spot, possibly a conflict of nature between two racial groups in the school is responsible for this escalation of violence. And the situation could worsen by them. "There is a small war in school St-Maxime between Quebecers and the Arabs. The following weeks will be dangerous. The tension mounts, there will be the big shit," says a young man who would not identify.
Another claims to have been pressed against the ground by police. "It is a clash between gangs. You will hear very often from St. Maximus' thought the youth, by exhibiting scratches on his wrists.
Version Canoe.qc.ca:
Frequent clashes?
The animosity between the Laval police and students of the institution would find its source in an incident early in the week.
Young people have been interviewed by the police to learn and understand more about the rumors of fights between students from Quebec and Arab origin.
"We have been advised that there would be some friction between two groups of young people in this school. As we are here to ensure the safety of people, we decided to give greater oversight over this institution still near the scene," says the agent Di Genova.
Hundreds of students from École secondaire Saint-Maxime gathered in the parking lot of the convenience store just opposite their versatility. Some of them are launching projectiles - soda can, snowballs, poutine containers - in every sense. Young people get excited, shout and eventually invade Lévesque Boulevard, forcing police cars that are unobtrusive to block the flow upstream.
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The Ecole Saint-Maxime is notoriously difficult. The fights are "recurring", evidenced by several staff members, not always well understood that the trigger. But the problems had never reached the extent that they have taken this week. What ignited the powder? Several students interviewed by The Press testified about the tension between the Arabic-speaking students and native Quebecers.
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"We constantly feel the tension in the school. It's chaos," said a young Arab origin, who also refused to give his name. "Fights broke out everywhere, all the time, after school, at lunch, and even in classrooms," he said.
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The Director of Saint-Maxime, Sophie L'Italien, was also present yesterday afternoon, wearing an orange bib. Ms. L'Italien refuses all interviews. "I need all my time to manage this situation," simply does declare.
Yesterday, he was tantalizingly close for the scuffle from degenerating. A bullet hit a car. The driver, obviously to young to take part, declined. After a management action, the driver finally moved on. The police were very present yesterday, although discreet. "A strong police presence too may be a provocation," said Daniel Guerin, spokesman for the Police Service of Laval.
Well, my comment now. Some people told me that difference is synonymous with tolerance. Well for me, tolerance of difference rhymes with vigilance and mistrust.
That's the hell of what are living some very good natural born Quebecers in Chomedey, good good white people of good race. A hell because of the Muslim danger, that we, Quebec native, could not do atheisation, a neglect that suffered today, primo Arabs and Muslims settled in Canada, and secondly Canadians who must live with the most pluralism state (erratic tell my girlfriend) in the world.
In a recent article, I noted the exquisite beauty of Arab women sadly veiled by religion. As some of my detractors, I quote: "You'll find her beautiful? I also find it delightful. When I think of all those veiled women in these Arab countries and all those women who were Hasidim shave his head to wear a wig. I think all these beauties wasted to the whims of religious from men. What a waste to hide the beauty of a woman smiling and happy. Emmanuelle Chriqui is one of many examples, when her career is in full bloom."
However this week I received an email from Ms. Chikhani's, the mother of Dounia Natasha Chikhani, who was one of my members in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles. Two years ago, it had found that a candidate in Pierrefonds-Dollard withdrew in solidarity to the rejection of my candidacy, bore the same name as the former member. Incredible! How lucky it was as rare a name is repeated? Not much.
So her mother wrote to me as what she said 2 years ago that I would have usurped the identity and the name of her daughter, from ethnic origin, to try to make believe that visible minorities would be related to my cause secular (as if I invented the resignation of a candidate), which precluded any possibility of being racist.
How the fuck could burst? In late December 2007, when we use to fight to shed light on my ouster of the NDP in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, I received a press release explaining the resignations of candidates for nomination in several ridings in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia.
One of them attracted my attention, the one of Dounia Natasha Chikhani, a girl who was member of my riding association. I had to sign his membership card at the end of the concert of the School of Music Francine Mondou, in June 2006. That was 3 years that I knew she wanted to do politics with me, since I had had an impact among young people under 20.
When I saw her name, I call her at home, asking her : "Dounia did you do a procedure to be candidate to the federal election?" She said no, and I assured her that she could tell me the truth, as if what she resigned in protest against my ouster, I am grateful for her solidarity. And she confirms me that she does not know what I mean. However, she confides me that her parents were angry against me after an article published in La Presse.
I asked her what they were against me, they are Egyptians, they are not Muslims, but Christians Copts. The Christians Copts were driven out and are always driven from Egypt. The article in La Presse remembered that I left on reasonable accommodations, secularism, secularization of Canadian society and my atheisation theory for youth made me look like an intolerant.
She told everything to her mother, which attack at my mother in the evening by telephone to threaten us.
What intolerance.
Labels: Francis Chartrand, Hostile races, Laval, Terrorism
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport, by Daniel Pipes
As hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation from London's Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind.
It consisted of an El Al security agent quizzing one Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, a 32-year-old recent arrival in London from Sallynoggin, Ireland. While working as a chambermaid at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane Murphy met Nizar al-Hindawi, a far-leftist Palestinian who impregnated her. After instructing her to "get rid of the thing," he abruptly changed his tune and insisted on immediate marriage in "the Holy Land." He also insisted on their traveling separately.
Murphy, later described by the prosecutor as a "simple, unsophisticated Irish lass and a Catholic," accepted unquestioningly Hindawi's arrangements for her to fly to Israel on El Al on April 17. She also accepted a wheeled suitcase with, unbeknown to her, a false bottom containing nearly 2 kilograms of Semtex, a powerful plastic explosive, and she agreed to be coached by him to answer questions posed by airport security.
Murphy successfully passed through the standard Heathrow security inspection and reached the gate with her bag, where an El Al agent questioned her. As reconstructed by Neil C. Livingstone and David Halevy in Washingtonian magazine, he started by asking whether she had packed her bags herself. She replied in the negative. Then:
"What is the purpose of your trip to Israel?" Recalling Hindawi's instructions, Murphy answered, "For a vacation."
"Are you married, Miss Murphy?" "No."
"Traveling alone?" "Yes."
"Is this your first trip abroad?" "Yes."
"Do you have relatives in Israel?" "No."
"Are you going to meet someone in Israel?" "No."
"Has your vacation been planned for a long time?" "No."
"Where will you stay while you're in Israel?" "The Tel Aviv Hilton."
"How much money do you have with you?" "Fifty pounds." The Hilton at that time costing at least £70 a night, he asked:
"Do you have a credit card?" "Oh, yes," she replied, showing him an ID for cashing checks.
That did it, and the agent sent her bag for additional inspection, where the bombing apparatus was discovered.
Had El Al followed the usual Western security procedures, 375 lives would surely have been lost somewhere over Austria. The bombing plot came to light, in other words, through a non-technical intervention, relying on conversation, perception, common sense, and (yes) profiling. The agent focused on the passenger, not the weaponry. Israeli counterterrorism takes passengers' identities into account; accordingly, Arabs endure an especially tough inspection. "In Israel, security comes first," David Harris of the American Jewish Committee explains.
Obvious as this sounds, overconfidence, political correctness, and legal liability render such an approach impossible anywhere else in the West. In the United States, for example, one month after 9/11, the Department of Transportation issued guidelines forbidding its personnel from generalizing "about the propensity of members of any racial, ethnic, religious, or national origin group to engage in unlawful activity." (Wear a hijab, I semi-jokingly advise women wanting to avoid secondary screening at airport security.)
Worse yet, consider the panicky Mickey-Mouse, and embarrassing steps the U.S. Transportation Security Administration implemented hours after the Detroit bombing attempt: no crew announcements "concerning flight path or position over cities or landmarks," and disabling all passenger communications services. During a flight's final hour, passengers may not stand up, access carry-on baggage, nor "have any blankets, pillows, or personal belongings on the lap."
Some crews went yet further, keeping cabin lights on throughout the night while turning off the in-flight entertainment, prohibiting all electronic devices, and, during the final hour, requiring passengers to keep hands visible and neither eat nor drink. Things got so bad, the Associated Press reports, "A demand by one attendant that no one could read anything … elicited gasps of disbelief and howls of laughter."
Widely criticized for these Clouseau-like measures, TSA eventually decided to add "enhanced screening" for travelers passing through or originating from fourteen "countries of interest" – as though one's choice of departure airport indicates a propensity for suicide bombing.
The TSA engages in "security theater" – bumbling pretend-steps that treat all passengers equally rather than risk offending anyone by focusing, say, on religion. The alternative approach is Israelification, defined by Toronto's Star newspaper as "a system that protects life and limb without annoying you to death."
Which do we want – theatrics or safety?
Mr. Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and Taube fellow at the Hoover Institution, has super-elite status at two airlines.
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Jan. 6, 2010 update: I lacked space in the column to play out this ultimate scenario: What if a very large group of hijackers gets on a plane, enough of them so that with muscle alone – no knives, guns, or bombs – they overpower the passengers and crew? What if they threaten the pilots to strangle one person after another until the plane comes under their control? No amount of technology can prevent such a scenario; only scrutiny of who is getting aboard can do so.
And while there has been no such large group, "Those Fourteen Syrians on Northwest Airlines Flight #327" represented a possible step in that direction.
Jan. 17, 2010 update: As the anecdote concerning Ann-Marie Murphy implies, I am not calling for religious profiling so much as using one's brains to focus on the threat. Therefore, while I see the following news from Finland, "Passengers' Religion May Lead to X-Ray Scan," as a step in the right direction, I also see it as simplistic:
Airport security may soon start scanning travellers based on their religion or citizenship. A syndicate of regional papers reports that a policy of passenger profiling may be adopted if Finland begins using new -- and controversial -- electromagnetic scanners.
Finland's aviation authority Finavia is considering whether to invest in electromagnetic scanners. But their bulky size and prohibitive expense means they would not entirely replace standard metal detectors. This is why, explains Finavia's head of corporate security Jyri Vikström, they may use passenger profiling in addition to random scans. .
Comment: How curious if the cost of electromagnetic scanners is what prompts a more discerning approach to airport security. And Finland - not the place one would expect such a cutting-edge decision, given its relative lack of terrrorism.
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Labels: Daniel Pipes, Israel, Terrorism
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Detroit terror attack: A murderous ideology tolerated for too long, by Noémie Cournoyer
Friday's attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner by a British-educated Islamist was foiled by the bravery of its passengers and crew. We cannot assume that we will be lucky next time. And the indications are that there will be a next time.
According to police sources, 25 British-born Muslims are currently in Yemen being trained in the art of bombing planes. But most of these terrorists did not acquire their crazed beliefs in the Islamic world: they were indoctrinated in Britain. Indeed, thousands of young British Muslims support the use of violence to further the Islamist cause – and this despite millions of pounds poured by the Government into projects designed to prevent Islamic extremism.
Is it time for a fundamental rethink of Britain's attitude towards domestic Islamism? Consider this analogy. Suppose that, in several London universities, Right‑wing student societies were allowed to invite neo-Nazi speakers to address teenagers. Meanwhile, churches in poor white neighbourhoods handed over their pulpits to Jew-hating admirers of Adolf Hitler, called for the execution of homosexuals, preached the intellectual inferiority of women, and blessed the murder of civilians. What would the Government do? It would bring the full might of the criminal law against activists indoctrinating young Britons with an inhuman Nazi ideology – and the authorities that let them. Any public servants complicit in this evil would be hounded from their jobs.
Jihadist Islamism is also a murderous ideology, comparable to Nazism in many respects. The British public realises this; so do the intelligence services. Yet because it arises out of a worldwide religion – most of whose followers are peaceful – politicians and the public sector shrink from treating its ideologues as criminal supporters of violence. Instead, the Government throws vast sums of money at the Muslim community in order to ensure that what is effectively a civil war between extremists and moderates is won by the latter. This policy – supported by all the main political parties – does not seem to be working. The authorities, lacking specialist knowledge, sometimes turn for advice to "moderate" Muslims who have extreme sympathies; supporters of al-Qaeda are paid to disseminate their ideology to young people.
Radical Islamist leaders are not stupid: they know how to play this system. The indoctrination of students carries on under the noses of public servants who are terrified of being labelled Islamophobic or racist. Therefore they fail to do their duty, which is to protect Muslims and non-Muslims alike from a terrorist ideology. If providing that protection requires fewer "consultations" with "community leaders" and more arrests, then so be it.
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Labels: Detroit, Noémie Cournoyer, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism, United Kingdom, United States
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Illegal arms transfers: Another similar case in 2004, by Fabrice de Pierrebourg
The coincidence is uncanny. During his research, RueFrontenac.com came across another story similar to that reported by Mirabel Indian newspaper The Hindu and Asian Tribune.
End September 2004, Indian authorities have blocked for several days on the tarmac at the airport in Ahmedabad Antonov AN-12 of the same company Vega loaded with explosives (one tonne of a powerful explosive type "plastic" C4) and ammunition, while it was calling to Nepal.
Local authorities have sought more information before allowing the re-launch of the Vega plane to Kathmandu. It must be said that a few months earlier, the Indians had already intercepted another plane loaded with nearly 5 500 weapons acquired by the Government of Nepal in Belgium this time.
A commotion of battle
The case of September 2004, decided to leave rather dubious, India has caused quite a stir with the local press echoed.
A ballet telephone had undertaken between Indian and U.S. diplomats, in addition to involve the secret services of all kinds.
The spokesperson of the Embassy of the United States in the Nepalese capital was then argued that this 'equipment' non-military ships from the United States as part of its "assistance program for training of Nepalese police" to assist in its "fight against terror".
According to reports released thereafter, the Bulgarian cargo plane converted into a flying bomb had departed from Baltimore, Maryland (!), Had stopped at Gander, in Canada, then Shannon (Ireland), Plovdiv (Bulgaria) Oman and finally Ahmedabad.
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Labels: Belgium, Fabrice de Pierrebourg, Nepal, Terrorism
Arms transfers via Mirabel by the Americans to circumvent a ban, by Fabrice de Pierrebourg
Under the era of George W. Bush, the government of the United States has used Mirabel airport to ship in the greater discretion of weapons and ammunition to the monarchical dictatorship in Nepal to help crush the Maoist rebellion blood.
The following story, revealed by RueFrontenac.com is unclear. Nebula as all cases occurring in the universe opaque and murky network of arms sales.
This is further evidence that deliveries of arms to conflict zones warmer, whether initiated by states or traffickers shamelessly follow tortuous paths to muddy the waters, away from the curious, bypass embargoes or international treaties.
The actors, voluntary or involuntary, of this story worthy of a screenplay adventures are three states, several Canadian federal agencies, police, intelligence service and a former airline Bulgarian considered villainous. So many actors who lock themselves in a circumstance of silence when asked for explanations or comments.
The facts, as they are still carried by RueFrontenac.com, occurred at least twice during the summer and fall 2005. The last confirmed expedition took place at the end of October 2005.
The track of these weapons goes back to Maryland in the warehouse of a company that specializes in the packaging of dangerous goods or weak prior to shipment by air, land or sea. Founded by a veteran of Vietnam, it is one customers different official bodies, including the Department of Defense, the State Department and intelligence agencies.
How many times the company in question has intervened for the shipment of arms to Nepal or elsewhere via Canada? Unsurprisingly, the spokesman for the company declined to answer our questions because, says she, the identity of his client. "I can not reveal such information is confidential," she said.
From Maryland to Mirabel
At the end of October 2005, the first part of this long journey to Nepal was carried by road.
First step: Mirabel Airport. Protected by a sealed diplomatic, this shipment of weapons and ammunition had traveled under heavy guard. After the border of St. Bernard de Lacolle, there would have been escorted by agents from the Border Services Agency of Canada. The agency has also refused to issue a comment on this.
The plan provided that the lethal cargo would then be loaded immediately into the hold of an Antonov cargo plane belonging to the Bulgarian company Vega Airlines Ltd. A company in the roadmap lackluster, as you will see later.
Except at the end of October 2005, a grain of sand has slipped into gear, disrupting this scenario a priori perfect. For some reason, probably a permissions problem in formal Transport Canada, the Vega aircraft could land at the appointed hour. As result, it has been stored for a certain period of time the weapons and ammunition to their arrival in the United States. This was not without posing a serious security problem.
Emergency meeting
All this has not gone unnoticed by some on the tarmac at Mirabel. For its part, Aeroports de Montreal (ADM) had already been informed officially of setbacks. The regional representatives of relevant government authorities, that is to say, Transport Canada, RCMP, SQ and CSIS were in turn briefed. The case seemed so suspicious that these partners met to discuss the case as strange that embarrassing "felt the CIA," whispered in the corridors.
This event occurs when the scandal secret flights by the CIA to transport prisoners to countries subcontractor torture gathered momentum in the world. No wonder some people have even tried Mirabel examine more closely the contents of boxes loaded aboard the Antonov Bulgarian.
It was too late. Vega had succeeded in obtaining the necessary permits and had flown his plane in the Laurentians sky to its final destination. A long journey with stops in Gander, Shannon and Sofia.
ADM confirmed RueFrontenac.com these shipments of arms to a "foreign country". But contrary to claims not to have been "involved in the operation, while some binding procedures - and kept confidential - for special flights would otherwise be due to set in motion, we were told.
Anyway, this little trick has ceased thereafter.
A fierce repression
The case is emphasized when considering the political situation in Nepal at that time. Note that the local security forces had launched a brutal crackdown against the rebels of the Maoist Communist Party of Nepal. Several advocacy organizations Human Rights had repeatedly denounced the atrocities committed over the past decade.
In a report released in June 2005, Amnesty International denounced the "thousands of cases of arbitrary arrests, unacknowledged detentions, torture and" disappearances "attributed to security forces." He added: "The crisis of human rights has worsened in Nepal since 1 February when King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev has taken control of the executive."
Since the early 2000s, the United States, India, Great Britain and even China were among the main suppliers of weapons and ammunition Nepalese security forces. Following the complete takeover by King Gyanendra, India and the United Kingdom have decided to suspend all military aid to the government. On September 13, 2005, the spokesman of the Embassy of the United States in Kathmandu said that the Americans had just notify the Government of Nepal "> their intention to enforce the embargo and to suspend any provision of equipment which could cause death (lethal) as the situation would not be back to normal.
This was not the case in light of events in Mirabel few weeks later.
Unanswered questions
Today, many questions remain. Why, for example, have chosen Canada to ship weapons, ammunition and explosives to Nepal? Is there not enough airports in the United States? How many times has this happened?
We have joined the U.S. State Department to obtain more clarification. The agency has declined, suggesting RueFrontenac.com contact the Department of Defense ... who spent his tour and returned the ball in the State Department.
• In May 2006, Amnesty International and the organization TransArms denounced in a joint report that chain of illegal U.S. arms supply to Nepal. A road "very tortuous via Canada and Europe," we can read.
• The Antonov AN-12 Vega has also been seen several times on the tarmac at several Canadian airports, including July 8, 2005 in Hamilton.
(In collaboration with Valérie Dufour)
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Labels: Canada, Fabrice de Pierrebourg, Nepal, Terrorism, United States
Monday, September 07, 2009
International links linger after 'Toronto 18' member imprisoned, by Iba Bouramine
BRAMPTON -- He has been called the Terrorist Mr. Fix-It. Aabid Hussein Khan was an avid al-Qaeda supporter who recruited young Muslims and arranged their passage to Pakistan for terrorist training.
Although he lived in central England, Khan travelled often, including to Toronto, where he intended to rent an apartment for recruits on their way to Pakistan's network of weapons training camps.
"He was always spoken of in the sense of one who could facilitate travel to places for training and was particularly hopeful of having a place near Toronto, where his wife lived," said Mubin Shaikh, who informed on Khan's associates in Toronto for the RCMP.
Now in a British prison, Khan is considered a key figure in a terrorist network that spanned a half-dozen countries, including Canada. He is also one of a growing number of friends, associates and co-conspirators within that network who have been convicted of terrorist crimes following a series of overlapping investigations.
Three years after Canadian police arrested 18 Toronto-area men and accused them of plotting terrorist al-Qaeda-inspired attacks in Southern Ontario, the suspected ringleaders have not yet had their day in court.
But related trials in Britain, the United States and elsewhere have already ended with convictions, and yesterday Saad Khalid was sentenced in a Brampton court to 14 years for his involvement in the Toronto bomb plot.
Khalid was the first of the "Toronto 18" to plead guilty, and the second to be sentenced following last year's conviction of a juvenile, but convictions are accumulating outside Canada as well.
In Atlanta, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee was convicted last month. Another Atlanta man, Syed Haris Ahmed, was found guilty in June. U.S. District Court Judge William Duffey Jr. wrote that the pair had met at least one of the Canadian suspects in Toronto to discuss training in Pakistan and potential terrorist targets.
In London meanwhile, Khan was convicted along with two other British men last August. When he was arrested in 2006, after returning to Britain from Pakistan, police found a video allegedly showing some of the Toronto suspects training at a camp in Ontario. The Atlanta, British and Toronto men were referred to as "co-conspirators" during the U.S. trial, and their online chats (seized from Khan's computer hard drive) were introduced into evidence.
"There were powerful international linkages," Jack Hooper, who was the deputy director of operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service at the time of the investigations, said in an interview.
Defence lawyer David Kolinsky, who represents one of the Toronto suspects, said the convictions would not affect the cases of the nine accused still awaiting trial in Brampton.
The jurors must base their verdict solely on the evidence presented in court, and the links between the Toronto suspects and those already convicted were neither strong nor relevant, he said. "The Crown is going to try to introduce meetings of those individuals into evidence and try to prove that as some part of a conspiracy. It might have an impact on the case but I don't see that happening at the trial."
The Canadian investigation was launched by CSIS and targeted Toronto-area youths the agency believed had adopted an al-Qaeda-type extremist ideology. The RCMP began its own investigation, called Project Osage, in 2005 and paid Mr. Shaikh and a second agent named Shaher Elsohemy to infiltrate the group.
While Canadian authorities were following the Toronto suspects, a British investigation called Operation Praline and an FBI investigation known as Northern Exposure were examining the activities of men with suspected links to the Ontario group. Police in Denmark, Bosnia and Bangladesh were also involved.
The police probes targeted small groups of young men who were allegedly using the Internet to discuss plans for paramilitary training and terrorist attacks. Some of them had also met face to face in Toronto and Pakistan. Evan Kohlmann, who testified as an expert witness at the Atlanta trial and attended the London trial as an observer, described the suspects in Toronto, Atlanta and the U.K. as "teammates."
As they became increasingly radical, Mr. Kohlmann said, the youths decided they needed training, which is where Khan came in. Also known as Abu Umar, Khan told the group he could arrange for them to visit camps in Pakistan run by Jaishe Mohamed and Lashkar Tayiba, the terrorist group behind the recent Mumbai attacks.
In his online chats, Khan discussed renting an apartment in Toronto that would be used by recruits going to and from the camps in Pakistan. The two Atlanta men eventually visited Toronto to discuss the training plans. Sadequee and Ahmed took a bus to Toronto in February, 2005 to met three men, including a member of the Toronto 18 group, said a "findings of fact" released last month by the U.S. judge.
"Specifically, they discussed and agreed upon a plan for members of the group to travel to Pakistan to obtain paramilitary training," he wrote. They also discussed "strategic locations" in the United States that could be potential targets for terrorist attacks, such as military bases, oil storage facilities and refineries.
The judge wrote that the Americans later filmed dozens of videos of Washington, D.C., landmarks and sent some of them to Khan, and that "one of the purposes of transmitting the Washington, D.C., videos to Khan was to assist in planning attacks in the United States."
Meanwhile, the Toronto group began building detonators and making plans for a series of bombings in Southern Ontario, according to a "statement of uncontested facts" released by the Crown.
The bombs were to be placed in three rented U-Haul vans and detonated remotely at about 9 a.m. in mid-November 2006 at the Toronto Stock Exchange, the CSIS regional office beside the CN Tower and at a military base off Highway 401 between Toronto and Ottawa, it said.
One of the accused told Mr. Elsohemy, the undercover agent, the bombings would be the "battle of Toronto" and described how "glass will be shattered on the streets, cars will be flipped and streets will be damaged." He said, "there will be blood, glass and debris everywhere."
The purpose of the attacks was to pressure Canada to withdraw from Afghanistan and "screw" Stephen Harper, the government and the military, the statement said.
A suspect also told the agent he had suggested the group film a video that would make it look like "al-Qaeda was the one who did it" and proposed they use the name "al-Qaeda organization in Canada," the statement of facts said.
The alleged ringleader of the bomb plot allegedly intended to leave for Pakistan the day before the Toronto attacks, and then make his way to Afghanistan, where he thought he would be "considered a leader."
But no attacks ever occurred. Khan, Sadequee, Ahmed and the Toronto suspects were arrested in 2006. A Swedish associate in Bosnia known as Maximus, and a Moroccan known as Terrorist007, were also arrested and have since been convicted.
At the trials in London and Atlanta, Khan was portrayed as, if not the leader, at least a central figure in the international network. The judge in the Atlanta case called him a recruiter for Pakistani terrorist groups. The evidence of Mr. Kohlmann, the evidence in the trials in London and Atlanta and the findings of fact by Judge Duffey have not been introduced or tested as evidence at a trial of any of the Toronto 18 in court in Brampton. Mr. Shaikh, the RCMP agent, said an interview Khan was "spoken of as one who had extensive connections" with like-minded youths in Europe, North America and South Asia. "I was shown a CD on which he was in Afghanistan participating in hostilities," he said.
Khan testified he had "strong Islamic beliefs" and had been using computers since a young age to follow the struggles of Muslims around the world. "I felt upset and angry," he said.
Later, he began engaging in online discussions about Muslim issues and jihad but prosecutors said that progressed to talk about training and terrorist attacks. Khan visited Pakistan repeatedly and said he came to Toronto in March 2005 to settle an inheritance and marry.
The Crown Prosecution Service in Britain said Khan was the leader of a British cell that had accumulated a library of terrorist information such as guides on making explosives and step-by-step instructions on how to make a suicide vest.
"Aabid Khan was very much the ‘Mr. Fix-It' of the group," the prosecution service said in a statement following Khan's conviction. "He preyed on vulnerable young people and turned them into recruits to his cause, using Internet chat rooms to lure them in then incite them to fight. He arranged their passage to Pakistan for terrorism training, and talked about ‘a worldwide battle.' "
Labels: Canada, Iba Bouramine, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism, Toronto
Monday, February 09, 2009
Interventions Ottawa against Islamic extremism, by Francis Chartrand
The government has resorted to "techniques against-radicalization" to keep Canadian Muslims of extremism, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post.
The document describes a little-known government-wide strategy aimed at preventing the emergence in Canada to emulate Al Qaeda as those who attacked the London Underground.
The measures described in the report range from meetings with community and religious leaders to urge them to fight against radicalization, to more controversial interventions by police and security officials.
According to the early report of 13 pages of the Canadian Security Intelligence Review: "Manifestations of Islamist terrorism in the West in recent years have raised concerns about the radicalization of Western Muslims."
"The terrorist plots in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and other Western countries have been planned or carried out by Muslims born or raised in these countries .... In an effort to prevent future attacks, the response of governments has been to begin to develop strategies to fight against radicalization in these communities."
In general, Canadian authorities have not discussed their initiatives in the fight against radicalization, and there is no obvious indication of this strategy on the official website of the government.
The report lists four techniques against radicalization-employed in Canada:
"Intervention with youth at risk", "arrests and imprisonment," the community closer, "and a" whole of government approach ".
"An important evaluation criterion is universally accepted that people in the early stages of radicalization are more likely to change or to divert those who are at an advanced stage," says the report.
"If beginners are still assessing their interest in joining a group or an ideology, the intervention should, in theory, towards a less dangerous way."
Canada won its first two convictions under the Terrorism Act last fall. A member of the group is called the cell of 18 Toronto and Momin Khawaja of Ottawa were convicted. Khawaja of the sentence to be imposed on 12 February.
Although Canadian authorities have now made several arrests, the government has revealed little about its efforts to fight against extremist beliefs that are the cause of terrorism.
The document offers a rare glimpse of Canada's initiative, while recognizing that it is too early to say if it was successful. The report also recognizes that Ottawa does not involved in the de-radicalization of extremists today described as comparable to the deprogramming members of cults.
Community mobilization is the most notorious of the program. The RCMP, CSIS and other agencies met with community groups to discuss radicalization.
The report states that the goal of bringing community is "to encourage community leaders and religious leaders to take steps to monitor and counter the process of radicalization within their communities."
A tactic less known is that the report calls "disruption / intervention" and he describes as "the active intervention of a security agency or law enforcement, with other partners with a individuals whose activities are a source of concern."
The tactics include interviews with young people identified as being at risk and, occasionally, discussions with their family or their relatives, and, on occasion, evidence of activities deemed harmful to national security are presented to the person, "says the report.
The report said it takes time to determine whether an intervention has worked.
According to the report, "Success is difficult to measure since the initial disturbance can cause a person to cease its activities for a while. Only long-term that we can determine whether the cessation of involvement in Islamist extremism is permanent."
The report did not indicate how often the tactic is used. The Department of Public Safety has acknowledged that he was involved in community mobilization and research on radicalization, but refused to discuss the use of tactical intervention. Jacinthe Perras, spokesman for the ministry, said: "It would be inappropriate to discuss the operational techniques of our partners."
The document, dated December 2007, was drafted by the Directorate of Intelligence Assessment of CSIS. A declassified copy was recently made accessible under the Access to Information.
Although only a small minority of Muslims are attracted by the violent ideology of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, CSIS speaks of a "serious problem" and a "direct and immediate threat to Canada."
"There is a process of radicalization of young people and young children in Canada who is currently," says another CSIS report newly released. This report from 2008 is entitled "The radicalization of Islamic youth in Canada echoes."
A third intelligence report, "Radicalization in Canada," notes that in a 2007 Environics poll on Canadian Muslims, 12% of respondents said they believe that terrorist attacks against Canada were justified.
"If the factors behind the radicalization does not improve, including the perception that Islam is attacked, it is expected that the radical, and hence the need for countermeasures against, will increase."
Jack Hooper, who was the deputy director of the Department of CSIS operations until his retirement in 2007, said that there have been debates within the intelligence service on the fight against radicalization. The debate revolved around whether the Service was mandated to carry out against radical-if it was an efficient use of resources and even if it was an appropriate role for the organization.
"I can not believe that most Canadians would like spies go to communities and try to change behavior," said Hooper.
"It disgusts me and I think that would be repugnant to many Canadians. They have no objection to what social workers and possibly other government agencies have such programs, but an intelligence service?"
Under a program-against radicalization, the police tried to build bridges with young Muslims. RCMP officers involved in combating terrorism appended young Muslims to a football match at BMO Field in Toronto last December. Then they met and they talked.
"The game was excellent and the idea is good," said Muhammad Robert Heft, who attended the match. "I think whenever you get to know people personally, you are a little more compassionate towards them as individuals, and this reduces the prejudices of both sides."
But he said that some "individuals more radical" are reluctant to approach the police because they seem to believe that "it is useless, they will continue to attack us they will continue to shape us , "said Heft, who runs the Paradise Forever, a support group for Muslims.
"This is not the only solution because you will not convince people who are determined to do harm to others that playing football will soften. But what you will accomplish is to soften the people around them, those who might be more inclined to cooperate. This is the key."
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CANADIAN MUSLIMS BY THEMSELVES
Various citations:
"It's a global fight. This is not a single country and a single battlefield ... It is an obligation to attack here ... they expect no doubt what happened in London ... a bomb in the subway, 10 people killed, and everyone is deported. This is not what we do ... our project is a much, much more. You do it once and you make sure that they will never recover."- Fahim Ahmad
Fahim Ahmad, of Toronto, made the comments on 5 March 2006 in a conversation recorded by police, according to the Crown. He was then arrested for his alleged involvement in the terrorist group of 18 in Toronto.
"If there were any planned attacks against Canadian soldiers and American by" Muslim militants' in Canadian soil, I argue ... Canadian soldiers in Canadian soil who are training to go to Afghanistan or Iraq are legitimate targets to kill. ... Now it is POSSIBLE AND LEGITIMATE! ... Believe me, if a sufficient number of our soldiers were killed, then we will be forced to withdraw from Afghanistan. ... I am pleased to see the blood of Western troops."- Salman Hossain
Salman Hossain, a student at the University of Toronto, was the subject of an RCMP investigation after posting these messages on the Internet, but he was never charged.
"Allah is great Allah bless Sheikh bin Laden. That the sword held by the hand of al-Qaeda hits not only Europe but also all our enemies. Whatever they are. I live in Canada and the Government of Canada supports the Americans. The Government of Canada supports Israel. Canadian soldiers are sent to Afghanistan and Iraq. Now is the turn of Canada. I want to drive non-Muslims from Canada. Only their deaths will overcome Islam. Allah is great ". - Altar
A man from Quebec, using the pseudo Altar, posted this message on an Internet forum last year, but he says he now regrets.
"If you ask me to take a truck full of explosives and darken in a military, I will."- E-mail written by a young woman from Toronto, convicted British terrorist Aabida Khan.
"We must understand and accept that Osama Bin Laden has left all the immense comforts and luxuries of life to serve a cause, which is fully in agreement with Islam."- Muhammad Naeem Khan Naeem
Muhammad Naeem Khan Toronto took those remarks in an interview last year after having called Bin Laden a "hero" and a "champion of Islam" in a message on the Internet.
"Imagine if there were 10 September 11th, is it would not fall America, it never rises? Yes, I understand that innocent people are dead, but there is absolutely no other way to achieve the same objective with the same effect."- Momin Khawaja
This was written Momin Khawaja of Ottawa in an e-mail to a British terrorist. Khawaja was convicted last year of five charges under the ATA.
Let's note also one of 18 members of Toronto, said at his trial: "Our goal, on a term of 15 years, to convert the Indians of the Province of Quebec to Islam, so that they can destroy all Quebecers for their crime to be put the Indians in reserve. Of all the Western peoples, the people of Quebec is the most impure and imoral, and so hatered that it is collectively unforgivable, throughout all its sins. Aspen that Quebec will not be spared, and we made his decision. Allah is great ".
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Labels: Canada, Francis Chartrand, Islam, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism
USA - Members of Congress: "Beware of CAIR", by Anne Humphreys
Recently, the FBI announced it was cutting all ties with Cair because of its links with the terrorist group Hamas. The blog American Muslims Against Sharia welcomed this news and was awarded to CAIR's Islamofascism price of the year.
The Canadian division of CAIR, CAIR-CAN, remains active with us where she is known for his efforts of Islamization of society, including through legal jihad. CAIR-CAN was founded by Sheema Khan, a columnist with The Globe and Mail. She recently wrote a column where it calls for the application of Sharia (after perfidiously blamed malice Canadians ...). Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of 170 comments displayed as chronic, if not all, rejected the plea of the Islamist Khan.
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Incorporated in Bivouac-ID: "Beware of CAIR" write elected U.S. Congress to their colleagues
Washington: In a letter with the letterhead of the U.S. Congress aimed at all members, 5 elected to write their colleagues to invite them to be wary of the organization for the civil rights of Muslims [and terrorists in particular] CAIR with which the FBI has to break all contact because of its proven links with Hamas (click here for evidence of government).
Source : Red Country
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Labels: Anne Humphreys, Hamas, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism, United States
USA - The FBI has cut all contact with CAIR because of its links with the terrorist organization Hamas, by Noémie Cournoyer
How to make a hero of Hamas?
How to make a hero of Hamas?
Video directed by Pierre Rehov.
Hamas is listed on the list of terrorist entities maintained by Public Safety Canada: click here for details
Just yesterday, the Islamist Sheema Khan, founder of CAIR-CAN, argued in the Globe and Mail for the recognition of sharia in Canada!
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Translation of excerpts:
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned that the FBI has cut all contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) because of growing concerns about the links of the defense of Muslims with network support Hamas.
The decision to end contact with CAIR has quietly made last summer when federal prosecutors were preparing the second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist organization Hamas, according to people briefed on the question.
The decision to end contact with CAIR is an important policy change for the FBI. For years the FBI has worked with the national organization and its chapters in different states with respect to concerns of the Muslim community about potential hate crimes and other violations of civil liberties in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
But critics say the FBI has conferred legitimacy inappropriate CAIR official's meeting even though its own investigation files contained evidence of links between the leaders of CAIR and Hamas.
Last fall, the offices of the FBI began to notify the CAIR chapters in the various statements that the FBI would not be able to meet until the national leadership of CAIR in Washington has responded to questions raised by the HLF trial, according to people with knowledge of this opinion.
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Labels: Canada, Hamas, Islam, Noémie Cournoyer, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism, United States
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Hamas, a party of religious fascists, editorial from Riposte Laïque
Several years ago, I was interested in a public meeting in Paris suburbs, by the League of Human Rights. The theme was peace in the Middle East, what works? Hoping to learn things, I was in the audience, surrounded by 500 people. At the forum, among others, sat the host of this debate, Daniel Mermet, the then President of the LDH, Michel Tubiana, Leila Shahid, Palestinian Authority representative in France, Bernard Ravenel representing the Committee on Palestine and a representative of the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP), speaking with a strong English accent.
The forum took the floor for two and a half hours. I was amazed at the oneness of all speeches. Israel was the evil aggressor, and Palestinians innocent victims. Daniel Mermet adding to each transition in this Manichean vision. He apologized after the last speech from the hall and explained that very little time for debate, therefore asked the potential stakeholders to be very brief. I pounce on the microphone, and asked for five minutes.
Irritated, Mermet gave me three. A little upset, I begin by saying that the conflict was fueled by two extremes, the far-right Jewish religious and right-wing religious Islamist. I explained that people wanted a greater Israel, freed of the Palestinians, and that others wanted to remove the State of Israel from the map. So I did express my surprise at the fact we have not yet decided once the name of Hamas. I say what really quickly Hamas and the political line he defended. At the forum, it started to jiggle nervously, and tried to interrupt me Mermet. I him a minute to conclude.
I added that I appreciated in France, Jews and Arabs have been able to work together against the National Front, in SOS Racism, and that the solution to the Middle East, could see the day when each side isolate religious extremists and his defending a secular society. I conclude by saying that I wanted more balanced meetings, from the LDH, for greater credibility of the goal: peace. A great silence accompanied my intervention and was succeeded by a few long seconds where we could hear a fly fly.
Apparently angered by my words, Mermet passed the floor to Tubiana. It began to say that the rise of Islamophobia and racism in France was serious. I interrupted the room telling him that I had not uttered the word Islamophobia, and I prayed to respond to what I said. While Mermet had announced that the meeting was to end in the minutes that followed, various speakers took the floor again an hour to meet me, often painstakingly, and justify their silence on Hamas.
Why start this first editorial of the year by that old story? Because it illustrates the drift of a section of the Left, political, associative and association, on the Palestinian question. To be published in Issue 69, the charter of Hamas, and have described as racist, sexist and of totalitarian and for not having married compassionate politically correct speech, our newspaper (see abundant letters ) has been extremely strong reactions, and sometimes abuse, from some opponents.
According to some, we would monsters indifferent to the suffering of the people of Gaza, and would be tolerant of the massacres of the State of Israel, colonialist, racist, fascist, who wants to exterminate the Palestinians as Hitler wanted to do away with Jews (for short).
As would be comfortable if the world were so simple. We would like to say that the fascists who killed the communists. Unfortunately, the facts are stubborn, Stalin killed more communists and Hitler, for example, there is evidence that 8000 Polish officers were executed in Katyn forest, with a bullet in the head, not by the Nazis as has long claimed the official version, but by the Red Army, which does not detract from the horror of the Nazi regime.
Since it would be comfortable today, in the same spirit, for many activists, to explain the woes of the Arab peoples by the sole fault of the Hebrew state. Of course, Palestinians killed in Israeli assaults which, remember, the politico-military targets Hamas. Any civilian casualties, even a child, is still a victim too. But can we hide the fact that the Hamas claim of using women and children as human shields? Has it existed historically, war clean, even for just causes and progressive?
Need I remind the other hand, thousands of Palestinians killed during Operation "Black September" in the 1970s by the Jordanians, the dead by the thousands, Shiites or Sunnis in Iraq and elsewhere, response to suicide bombings, also espoused by Hamas, killing several hundred activists of the Palestinian Authority, lynched without trial at the putch Hamas in Gaza, are not the result of the Zionist state? The tragedy of Darfur is not the fact of U.S. imperialism and its ally Israel, but the Islamist militias. Write it in no way detracts from the criminal attitude of the United States against Iraq, but requires a vision of the history a little less biased and compassionate.
Furthermore, a reading of the geo-political world, as written in 2005 by General Gallois is also useful for understanding the global context in which this conflict takes place.
Of course, the secular can not be found in certain positions in the State of Israel, and the pressure exercised what some religious circles. How can a democratic country can accept the need to marry abroad to see a civil marriage recognized? But if secularism is the freedom of conscience, there is no comparison between the democratic system in place in Israel, and the totalitarian logic of Hamas. Remember that for him the only solution in Palestine is the submission to Allah, the destruction of Israel, the extermination of the Jews and the imposition of sharia law, women in particular. For a woman, a homosexual, to a layman, for a progressive, is it better to live according to the principles applied in Israel, or the rules in force today in Gaza?
The fascination of a part of the left to totalitarian models yesterday Stalinism today Islamism, rebellion still those of us who believe that the social struggle can not hide a vision of society where, in addition to freedom of conscience and democratic rights, equality between men and women is a value with which we can not compromise.
However, in the name of a Marxist who is among the colonized peoples and colonizers, who yesterday showed complacency with criminal bureaucrats Stalinists, Trotskyites or many orphans who seem wall, repeated today, Today this appalling mistake, some even in light of Hamas, Hezbollah in the past, representatives of the poor and oppressed, as the novelist Thierry Jonquet in a magnificent published two years ago.
It is also curious that this blindness that led to the left fringe to have fought, sometimes with virulence, the campaign for a law against religious symbols in schools. They are also the ones who close their eyes, every day, before the offensive of Islam in France and Europe, against secularism, the Republic and the rights of women. What can they respond to Sarkozy when he defends secularism positive, they defend this thesis with Islam for 20 years! Have you noticed that we hear very little about the provocations Dieudonné giving the floor to Faurisson?
Some believe that the essential divide in a democratic society, would be the social and wealth distribution. They believe that the claim of religion of the poor and oppressed the right to take any liberties with our Republican principles. Well, no!
We can not have a society with people who accompany the offensive Islamist fascists, even if the activists say things just on the distribution of wealth and scandalous social inequality.
We do not want to live in a country where Muslim enclaves are becoming more and develop on our territory propaganda of Hamas, and its draft fascist society.
We do not want to see mosques invade more and more public space, much less when they are paid with our sub!
We do not want to hear religious Jews claim arrangements for the Saturday school, or other churches claim reasonable accommodations with secular principles and the law of 1905.
We note that those who now accuse Israel of war crimes and demonstrate against this (without worrying about the windfall that it is crazy for Allah), are not in the street when suicide bombings cause thousands of deaths, the United States, Britain, France, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia, and throughout the world where the culture of rampant death, on behalf of the prophet. Too bad for Muslims and Arab peoples, first victims of religious fascism, we should not distract the masses of the one true battle: the one against U.S. imperialism and its Zionist ally. Hence the events where the flags of Hamas alongside those of the PCF (ie: French Communist Party) or the LCR! (Ed.: Revolutionary Communist League)
Yesterday, he had shut the realities of Stalinist regimes, not to despair Billancourt, and not divert the masses of the struggle against the bourgeois state. At another time, on behalf of revolutionary defeatism, it should not fight against Nazi Germany, when it was France, because it was promoting its own imperialism!
When a little common sense and the recognition that the defense of secular values, feminist, humanistic, democratic have more importance than ideological visions of the world where we end up defending religious fascists because they represent the oppressed (they also have nothing to do, their only prospect is to impose the jihad in the world).
As recently wrote Henri Guaino decidedly sometimes prevent labels of thinking.
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Labels: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism
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