 MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - Qayyum Abdul Jamal and several others arrested Friday in what Canadian police say was a foiled bomb plot were regulars at Al-Rahman mosque, a storefront space sandwiched between a Hasty convenience market and a beauty saloon in a small strip mall in Mississauga. The 43-year-old Jamal, the oldest of those nabbed in the police sweep, lived with his family just down the road, in a neat, suburban townhouse complex where neighbors said he spent a lot of time fixing cars in his driveway. ``He was quiet. Didn't say much,'' said his next-door neighbor.
| "A loner. Kept to himself..." |
But that was not true at the mosque. Jamal's angry view of the world, and his belief that the West is at war with Muslims, boiled over there, others say. It was so strident it startled Wajid Khan, a Muslim member of Parliament who stopped at the mosque last year on his regular rounds of his district just west of Toronto. ``I was concerned that he had found a bunch of young kids and he was able to influence them,'' Khan said in an interview Sunday. ``I think we have to be extremely vigilant in the Muslim community. We have to watch out for people who are trying to teach disaffected youths that it's the Muslims against the rest, a war of civilizations.''
| Yeah. I guess you do. You might start by grabbing the guys spewing spittle and rolling their eyes and putting them in straightjackets. |
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