Toronto's newest speaking star: a would-be suicide bomber

The National Post ^ | July 21, 2009 | Terry Glavin

[Nachum]

'Long live the Taliban" might seem an unlikely thing for a prominent anti-war figure to declare, but that's to-day's peace movement for you. Stranger still, the man who recently uttered those words, Azzam Tamimi, is being promoted by a new Toronto-based institute that says it is embarking upon a national campaign to cultivate wholesome, faith-based civic virtues among Canada's young Muslims.

[edcoil]

That will be a short trip.

[SuziQ]

"It's not a blanket defence," Mirza said. And what about Tamimi's grisly advocacy of suicide bombing? Mirza says the subject isn't expected to come up during Tamimi's lectures, which will look back on 1,400 years of Islamic history.

An interesting statement, coming from the co-coordinator of an institute for Islamic Thought. Didn't the term ASSASSIN come from the Arabic word, hashishim, which described the young men who were stoked on hashish by their commanders, then sent in to kill someone, allowing themselves to be killed in the process? Sounds like the precursor to a suicide bomber, to me.