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Home-grown 'champion of Islam'
National Post ^ | April 25, 2008

Posted on 04/27/2008 9:45:29 AM PDT by nuconvert

Home-grown 'champion of Islam'

Stewart Bell, National Post

April 25, 2008

TORONTO -Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to "Support Our Troops," but he's not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.

From his apartment in Toronto, Mr. Khan has been posting messages on the Internet calling Osama bin Laden a "hero" and "champion of Islam."

The 23-year-old fundamentalist's online logo combines the black Taliban flag and the outline of an AK-47 above the "Support Our Troops" slogan.

Between sips of iced coffee at Tim Hortons, Mr. Khan explained that he is a supporter of the Taliban, as well as other armed Islamic groups.

" 'Support our Troops' means supporting the mujahideen [Muslim soldiers of God] who are fighting for their freedom and rights against illegal occupation in many, many places over the world like Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine and Somalia," he said later in an e-mail.

Views like these are becoming increasingly common in Western countries, Canada included, and they are worrying to governments concerned about radicalism and violence.

Mr. Khan is an Islamist, not a terrorist, but what most disturbs moderate Muslims are his harsh comments about those who do not subscribe to fundamentalist beliefs.

In his online postings, Mr. Khan calls Tarek Fatah, Irshad Manji and other moderates "apostates," and says that under Islamic law, the punishment for apostasy is death. The same goes for those who insult Islam.

"Behead her!!! And make a nice video and post it on YouTube," he writes about one "Islam basher." As for "Jews who support Zionism and Israel … since they are killing Palestinians … killing them is not bad … they deserve to die."

Elsewhere he writes, "Those who hate Islam and want to destroy is [sic] will have their fates decided by the swords of Muslims Inshallah [God willing]."

Mr. Khan said he was angry when he wrote these and did not mean anyone harm. He said he meant that those killing Palestinians deserve to die and that under Shariah law, the sentence for apostasy and insulting Islam is death.

But Mr. Fatah and other moderates say such expressions go too far, and are becoming all too common in Canada.

"In recent times, hundreds of Islamic radicals have settled in Canada," said Tahir Gora, a Pakistan-born writer who has been tackling the issue in his Hamilton Spectator columns.

"They are spreading hatred and extremism in the guise of freedom of expression. On the other hand, they put death penalties to those dissidents who challenge the traditional medieval way of Islam."

Mr. Gora heads the Canada Safety Think Tank, which monitors what he calls the growing Islamist radicalization in the country.

He wants Ottawa to take the issue more seriously and believes police should lay hate-crimes charges against extremists who pronounce death sentences on moderates like himself.

The government says it is trying to tackle the problem. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service's latest annual report listed radicalization as a top priority.

Terrorism cases before the courts in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa all concern allegations of violent plots motivated by Islamist extremism. And the RCMP said in January it was investigating a Bangladeshi-Canadian for what Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called "extremist rantings" that were "encouraging jihad and extolling the virtues of killing our Canadian soldiers."

Raised in a secular family in Karachi, Mr. Khan said he became a follower of the controversial Pakistani cleric Israr Ahmad and adopted his conservative Deobandi stream of Sunni Islam.

After graduating from Greenwich University in Karachi with a degree in business administration, Mr. Khan immigrated to Canada with his parents in 2006.

He is unemployed but said he hopes to complete an MBA.

He said in Canada he can openly preach views for which he would be jailed or tortured in Muslim countries. "And believe it or not, me and many Muslims like me are willing to migrate ASAP to an Islamic state as soon as it emerges," he said.

Intelligence expert Professor Wesley Wark said Mr. Khan's "odious" views raised the question of whether Canada needed to specifically outlaw the incitement of terrorism.

"There is sometimes a value in exposing views such as those of Mr. Khan in public, where ridicule can scrub them away," said Prof. Wark, a visiting research professor at the University of Ottawa.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; gwot; insurgent; islam; jihad; terrorism; terrorist; wot
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To: nuconvert

Islam thuggery is of course now in full swing with these young wannabes, who remind me of nothing so much as the earliest thug-enforcers of Communism baptised by the Revolution, and spread out all over the world for the next 50-60 years. It’s the newest/oldest variant of the deranged posturing that’s always been at the heart of Islam. Severe psychopathological behavior masquerading as “belief” or “ideology”.


21 posted on 04/27/2008 4:36:14 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see" --Schopenhauer)
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To: nuconvert

domestic jihad bump


22 posted on 04/27/2008 6:43:56 PM PDT by Dajjal
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To: nuconvert

Just shoot the SOB and call it an homor killing.


23 posted on 04/27/2008 7:37:34 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: StarCMC

>> “And believe it or not, me and many Muslims like me are willing to migrate ASAP to an Islamic state as soon as it emerges,” he said.

> Good. That’ll put ‘em all in one place for easy disposal.

I think you’re onto something, Star. Muslim States for convenient easy disposal.

For this purpose, I declare an official Muslim State in the Nevada desert, say 90 miles north of Las Vegas. It’s all bombed out and glassed over already, and the Muslims ought to get used to that because that is what the Middle East is going to look like soon anyway.

Disposal st the Nevada site hould therefore be a fairly efficient, convenient and trouble-free affair, a couple test bombs ought to do the trick nicely. The glowing glass hole can then be declared a Muslim Holy Site for the purposes of ongoing maintenance and disposal every, say, five years or so.

Similarly, I declare the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific to be an official French Muslim State — with free one-way passage aboard any French Navy vessel for any European muslim who wants to pilgrimage there. Heck, the land is sitting around there empty anyway, glowing away radioactively in the South Pacific, the French might as well put it to use solving their Muslim problem, too.

Gitmo? Close Gitmo — it’s a perfectly good Naval site, and politically embarrassing. Re-opening an Official Muslim State on Bikini Atoll would fix both problems. Move all the internees over there. They could rename it Burka Atoll if they like, and they could have the free run of the place.

ONCE AGAIN proving the value of the FRee Republic as a place where Conservative solutions can be brought to bear against Muslim problems.


24 posted on 04/27/2008 10:12:17 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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