Good boy King, now go fetch the lug wrench.
Posted on 07/27/2006 5:00:30 AM PDT by fanfan
Yukon crash ends faith mission
Accident kills 5 Muslims on cross-country trip
Just one of five from Toronto survives
It began two weeks ago as a Muslim community outreach mission. Several men crossed the country by van, visiting Muslims from Toronto to Inuvik, N.W.T. to see how they lived and how they practised Islam.
They were due back in early August, but a fatal car crash above the Arctic Circle took the lives of five of them — four from Toronto, one from Whitehorse in the Yukon.
Only one man, Zafar Malik of Toronto, survived the crash.
The others, Azmat Sheikh, 38, Naoman Sidat, 56, Mohammed Saeed Manjawala, 33, Mohammed Pathan, 65, and Whitehorse resident Khalid Malik were killed Monday when their red minivan went off the road as it rounded a gravel turn on the Dempster Highway in the Yukon, said RCMP Sgt. Dan Gaudet.
The van, which was travelling south from Inuvik, then plunged 12 metres down a steep embankment, he said.
Reached yesterday by the Star in his Inuvik hospital room, Zafar Malik said Sidat, the driver, lost control on the gravel.
"We tried to put brakes on it to make it slower, and it just slipped. It went out of control. It rolled, rolled, rolled and went down. The road was so bad."
Initial response came from the nearest RCMP detachment in Fort McPherson, about 160 km away, after another driver reported the accident.
When paramedics arrived at the scene, four of the men were already dead and two were hurt. One of the injured men died at the crash scene and Zafar Malik was airlifted to an Inuvik hospital, where he is recovering.
"Before (paramedics) took me, they told me they were all gone," Zafar Malik said.
The group was on the way back to Toronto from the Northwest Territories and had planned to visit more communities along the way, Zafar Malik said.
The group left Toronto July 6 and was to return Aug. 10.
"We were just visiting Muslim brothers, reminding them how to be good Muslims. Everybody knows, but they don't practise. Just reminding that knowing is nothing, practising is the real thing," Zafar Malik said.
He said the Toronto men had known each other for "a few years." Zafar Malik said he, Azmat, and Khalid Malik are originally from Pakistan and the others from India.
Iqbal Bari said his brother, Sheikh, had been on similar outreach missions before in the U.S., Mexico and Guatemala.
Hanif Sheikh, president of Toronto's Madina mosque, said the men went to several mosques and private homes in the Yukon and Northwest Territories to speak to Muslims.
"Just the way Christians do going door to door," he said.
Sheikh said the men went on the trip of their own accord and were only there to work within the already existing community, not to convert non-Muslims. According to the 2001 census, 60 Muslims live in the Yukon and 180 in the Northwest Territories.
Members of the Toronto Muslim community are mourning the loss of the four described as "people of the highest esteem."
"They were good people with good actions," said Abdul Ingar, president of the Dar-al-Salaam mosque. "A very polite and humble group."
Abid Okadia prepared tax returns for the Toronto victims. He said he's known them for "many, many years" and is devastated by the loss. "This is a personal tragedy for me."
Sidat and Manjawala drove school buses for a living, said Okadia, while Sheikh was an information technology consultant and Pathan a mechanic.
Families of the victims mourned in their homes yesterday, some still wondering how the accident happened. Sidat's daughter, who wouldn't give her name, said her family doesn't have all the details yet.
"We just know that there was an accident and they're all gone," she said.
Across town, Mohammed Pathan's family gathered to mourn at the North York apartment complex where he lived. His daughters, who live in the same complex, were visibly upset and guarded when they spoke to the Star. One daughter broke down at her doorstep, pulling the door in front of her face to hide the tears.
"He's not coming back. Just pray for us," she said, before closing the door.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
Except Christians witness about God, not the teachings handed out by a demon.
Good boy King, now go fetch the lug wrench.
Good thing he won't be driving school buses anymore...
I wonder if they scanned the vehicle for signs of explosives being hauled. Of course, I'm not profiling or anything! :>)
They're dead Jim.
Thank you for the ping fanfan.
Need more coffee....Inuvik, not Inuik
Lots of gravel roads, blue sky, no guard rail up this way.
They were going all that way to "remind" people how to be good Muslims? There's a little too much Muslim reminding going on around the world - insisting their fellow Muslim follow the ridiculous rules as strictly as the reminder does or else! A strange story.
They are working in rural Mexico also. Suppose they have have "big picture" goal in mind?
Allah be praised!
4 less to worry about.
So they will be able to tell the authorities who practices Jihad ism </sarc>
(Muslim) Informants in American Service
The Strategy Page ^ | June 4, 2006 | The Strategy Page
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1643576/posts
Posted on 06/05/2006 7:56:30 AM CDT by Little Ray
A recent terrorist trial, and conviction, of an Islamic terrorists in New York City brought out the extent to which police have infiltrated Moslem communities in order to uncover terrorist plots. While most of this counter-terrorist activity within Moslem communities is kept secret, enough information has leaked out to make it clear that it's no accident that the United States has not suffered another terrorist attack since September 11, 2001.
There is an extensive informant network within Moslem communities all over the United States. The FBI was pleasantly surprised right after September 11, 2001, by the number of calls they got from American Moslems, reporting suspicious events in their communities, or volunteering to keep an eye on things. It turned out that there was a substantial number of American Moslems, most of them recent immigrants (legal and illegal) that were pro al Qaeda. These attitudes had been causing distress among American Moslems since the 1990s. There had been violence, and even some murders, as the Islamic radicals tried to take control of Mosques, and other Moslem immigrant organizations. While Arabs have been migrating to the United States for over a century, until the 1960s, most of those migrants were Arab Christians, or Jews. Once Israel was founded, the Middle Eastern Jews generally went to Israel, while Arab Christians continued to head for America. Then came the large waves of Arab Moslems. The established Arab-Americans did not have close ties with the growing number of Arab Moslem migrants. There were some pan-Arab organizations, but the Arab Moslems tended to keep to themselves. This was no surprise to the Arab-American Christians, as their ancestors had come to American to escape persecution by Moslems back home. Old animosities die hard.
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correction! 5 less to worry about. Thats even better!!!
So, I wonder how many AK-47s were found in the wreckage???
;-)
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