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| Canadian Jihad Coverup |
| 2006-06-07 |
| by Robert Spencer The lead paragraph of the Toronto Star story on this week’s terror arrests in Canada was: “In investigators’ offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall. And still, says a source, it is difficult to find a common denominator.” But illustrating the story was a photo of two women, relatives of the accused, in full Islamic dress, their faces entirely covered except for a slit for their eyes. Difficult to find a common denominator? The investigators could have found it in the Star’s photo. But the Star seemed intent on not noticing this. The initial New York Times story on the arrests likewise identified the suspects as “Canadian residents” and as “mainly of South Asian descent.” It assures readers immediately thereafter that “none of them had any known affiliation with Al Qaeda”—which it had given no one any reason to suspect in the first place. The Times quoted a Royal Canadian Mounted Police assistant commissioner trafficking in irrelevancies: “They represent the broad strata of our society. Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed.” Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair joined in the denial, noting proudly that during the press conference following the arrests, “I would remind you that there was not one single reference made by law enforcement to Muslim or Muslim community.” Why not? The Canadian Muslim community is clearly involved in this, and they know it: they have been backtracking furiously from those arrested, but in ways that only raise more questions. The Toronto Star spoke with some of the members of a school Muslim association to which some of those arrested belonged. Once those who are now terror suspects “discussed at an association gathering whether suicide bombing was permissible in Islam. Their views were so violent that the other association members threatened to have them banned.” But evidently they didn’t follow through on the threat or report them to authorities. Why not? |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #6 I suspect that the police chief deliberately avoided mentioning islam for legal reasons, not blind ignorance. If he started spouting off about islam, he'd be feeding their defense teams ammo for their widely anticipated "poor oppressed misunderstood victoms of racism" defense. |
| Posted by: Canukistanian 2006-06-07 19:10 |
| #5 john, let's waylay the BBC Editors, relieve them of their valuables, and tell them we're just innocent money-takers, not robbers. :) |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-06-07 17:05 |
| #4 also "hostage takers". Quite a peculiar term by the BBC.. I would think that men who kidnap and kill children would qualify as "terrorists". |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-07 16:29 |
| #3 You should listen to the Beeb on Beslan - always worth a chortle at the PC brigade: no mention of Muslim/Islamist perpetration - simply 'armed men', 'armed gang', 'Chechen separatists' - total denial. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-06-07 06:32 |
| #2 Of course, how MultiCulti - don't notice the obvious link. There is no 400 lb gorilla sitting there in front of you. Nope. No way. Many knew these cretins were going "active". Many knew they were planning something. And some knew what. Cowards or Symps? Does it really matter, in the end? Really? No. Moussaoui went to SuperMax for precisely this. Until some political leader has the stones to publicly place the blame on Islam, not "radicals" or any other lame euphemism, we cannot take the next step: demand reform of Islam or make it clear they now will receive common blame. Islam is a pestilence on Mankind. It has no saving grace. It is a prime source of misery and violence and hate and misogyny and brutality and intolerance in the world. Payback time. I got your intolerance right here. It should have been killed in the cradle - and nothing has changed in the last 1400 years except it is more widespread. And, to give full "credit" where due, I despise all public officials who haven't the guts or moral compass to tell the truth, just as I would anyone I met on the street. That they have public responsibilities does not excuse them, it makes their cowardice 10x worse. The MSM are the apologists and excusers for both. |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-06-07 06:22 |
| #1 "Will it take a successful jihad attack of this kind for Western officials to wake up and do what they must do in order to guarantee the security of the societies they have been entrusted with protecting?" B-b-but......... That would be so,...(ulp)....AMERICAN... |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2006-06-07 05:54 |