Canada's intelligence service has warned police that members of one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the Middle East may try to infiltrate Canada to set up a support base, a newly released report reveals.
The report says the discovery of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fundraising network in Florida "raises the possibility of PIJ elements crossing the border to develop a similar infrastructure in Canada." It also claims Iran and Syria have provided money, training and safe haven to the radical Palestinian group, responsible for a wave of suicide bombings in Israel.
Marked "For Police and Security Officials' Use Only," the Canadian Security Intelligence Service document was released to the National Post under Access to Information. The report is dated May, 2003, three months after the Post reported that Islamic Jihad had tried to obtain a fraudulent visa so its treasurer, Muhammed Tasir Hassan Al-Khatib, could come to Canada.
The Islamic Jihad has long collected and laundered money in Canada to finance Palestinian violence.
However, the report suggests there are concerns that, under pressure in the United States, the group might go the next step and try to build a network north of the border.
The PIJ would hardly be the first terror group to do so.
An estimated 50 terror outfits already have a presence in the country, which they use as a hideout and a base for fundraising, propaganda and planning attacks.
Islamic Jihad agreed to a ceasefire last summer but has since resumed attacks against Israelis. On Monday, an Israeli F-16 fighter jet fired missiles at the home of a senior leader of the organization but missed its target.
The CSIS report described Islamic Jihad as a Gaza-based Muslim fundamentalist organization that has been killing Israeli civilians and security forces since September, 1986.
"PIJ attacks have included, but are not limited to, assaults with knives, axes, grenades, car bombs, and, particularly after 1994, the use of suicide bombers," the CSIS report says.
Islamic Jihad directs its violence at Israelis, but has also conducted an attack in Egypt and threatened to target South Korea over the country's participation in the Iraq war. It also said it would kill Norwegian observers monitoring the failed Oslo peace accords.
During a recent visit to Canada, Amr Moussa, Secretary-General of the Arab League, denied that Middle Eastern countries were providing any support whatsoever to Palestinian terrorist groups.
But the CSIS report shows that while the Islamic Jihad hard-core membership consists of no more than 200 fighters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it depends on an international support structure for money, weapons and training.
One of the group's founders, Fathi Shaqaqi, admitted the PIJ "received Iranian funds and that money and equipment had been transferred to the occupied territories to finance terror operations and to support the families of PIJ activists."
The group also gets "limited logistical support from Syria," CSIS said. "In 1997, it was assessed that Syria provided various terrorist organizations, including the PIJ, with safe haven in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley."
In addition, Islamic Jihad built a North American support network that, until recently, was based in Florida, where university professor Ramadan Shallah ran a front organization called the World and Islamic Studies Institute (WISE).
Sami al-Arian, another Florida professor involved in WISE, was arrested this year. Court documents filed by U.S. investigators at the time alleged that an unnamed Canadian-based Islamic Jihad operative moved thousands of dollars from accounts here to fund the PIJ.
The Islamic Jihad is one of 31 terrorist groups outlawed by Cabinet order. Critics argue the Liberal government is not doing enough to stop terrorists from using Canada as base for supporting worldwide violence.
Some former intelligence officials want Ottawa set up a foreign intelligence service like the CIA. Last Friday, Ward Elcock, the CSIS Director, revealed that CSIS was already heavily involved in covert foreign spy missions, which he said had become "an integral part of the service's operations."
Its about time we put up a fence between ourselves and our terrorist loving neighbors to the north...
We should also be training Canadian freedom fighters and help them to free their countrymen
from the evil regime that has taken over their country...
imo
Oh come now. Canadians know that their support of the Pali's and condemnation of the Israel, the USA and steadfast support of anything anti-Bush has earned them the regard and safety they crave.
Maybe the infiltrators are just going to Canada for gay marriage.
Let's just remind ourselves how many of the 19 September 11th terrorists came through Canada or used Canada as a base. If you answered zero, give yourself a gold star. We need to clean up our own nest of terrorists before we start pointing fingers at other nations...
On what facts do you base your rant, or are you just another Anti-Canucklehead anxious to give little brother another good nougie to the melon and any excuse is a good excuse.
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By ebrahim kara on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 11:06 pm: Edit
do u have to ask your parents before going into jihaad?
By Jafar on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 09:29 am: Edit
Well yes I've heard of a hadith in which someone came from yemen and said to the nabee "I've come for jihad and left my parents crying"He(nabee)said"Go back and make them laugh as you made them cry"
sorry cant remember the reference.someone help me.
Also check "al-mushtaaquna ilal jannah" atape by sh. muhammad al areefi
By Asadullah Khan on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 08:15 am: Edit
Assalamoalaikum. If there is a situation where Jihad is FARZ-E-AIN(Obligatory), then you must go for jihad whether ur parents allow u or not. And if the Jihad is FARZ_E_KIFAYA(not obligatory) then seeking your parents permission is must.
One more thing, if suppose there is situation in your home that you are the ONLY support for your parents, then and then only one has to think about not going for jihad, otherwise if there is someone who can take good care of your parents, then you should not stay behind. Today Jihad is Farz-e-ain on the citizens of Pakistan,Iraq, and all the muslim countries nearer to the most affected areas like Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and India.
Allah Hafiz.
Always remember our brave mujahideens in Prayers.
By anony on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 02:12 pm: Edit
asalam alikum
Bro read the following article here in as-sahwah by Sheikh Abdullah Azzam (rh)about offensive and defensive jihad. He (rh) gives evidences that for the defensive jihad permission is not needed.
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By ... on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 02:33 pm: Edit
asalam alikum
Regarding bro Jafars question regarding martyrdom operations. The Jfiles website was already quoted which means the brother is aware of the many fatawi regarding this issue making it permissable under certain circumstances. I think Dr. Ayman Al- ZAWAAHRI explains the issue well.
TRANSLATION OF INTERVIEW WITH DR. AYMAN AL ZAWAAHRI-BY AZZAM PUBLICATIONS (09/2002)
Q3: Some accuse you of causing harm to be inflicted on the Muslims, such as the current campaign of persecution and pursuit of the Muslims and the constraints on Islamic organizations. What is your opinion of these claims?
A3: Firstly, the implication of this doubt is that we must remain enslaved and subjugated, following America and Israel, because every time we decide to resist, they will strike, torture, surround, and persecute us.
Secondly, the doubters and the hesitant throughout history, have thrown this doubt in the face of every free man who has set about resisting oppression. The Quran recorded this when it mentions the statement of the infidels to the Prophet (peace be upon him),
“If we follow the guidance with you, we would be snatched away from our land.” (28:57)
Thirdly, Jihad by necessity entails hardship, expense, and sacrifice. Allah says,
“Had it been a near gain (booty in front of them) and an easy journey, they would have followed you, but the distance was long for them; and they would swear by Allah, “If we only could, we would certainly have come forth with you.” They destroy their own selves, and Allah knows that they are liars.” (9:42)
Al-Mutanabbi summarized this matter when he said in his poem:
Were it not for the hardship, all the people would rule
Generosity becomes poor, the brave are killed
Fourthly, he who makes these claims is trying to ignore the reality of how the Muslims have suffered the worst and most serious disasters, for more than a century. Their lands are occupied either by foreign forces, or through political influence. Their resources are deemed lawful and plundered. They are deprived of free will. Their rights are thrown away and stolen. Their sanctuaries are surrounded and taken over. The ruling regimes in their countries are corrupt and submissive to the foreign enemy. So what harm, after all this harm, are they crying over? What they call harm is the requirement of glory and the tax of honor, as al-Mutanabbi said
Burden of harm and the view of its perpetrator
Diseases are used to cure the body
Humiliated are the ones who envy the lifestyle of cowards
Perhaps this lifestyle is lighter than the lifestyle of the Pigeon
Whoever is weak then cowardliness is facilitated for him
The wounded die as a result of the pain
Q4: Some of those who are affiliated with the Islamic Call claim that resisting America militarily is impossible, and that the solution is through dialogue and attempting to convince it, of our rights. Also they claim that the present stage is the stage of ‘preparation’ and not the time for battle. What is your view?
A4: One is not amazed by the falsehood of such claims, but one is amazed that they continue to be repeated, even after the entire world witnessed the great events in Afghanistan. Here in Afghanistan, the course of history changed, when the Soviet Union, the largest land-based military force in the world, was dashed to pieces on the boulders of the Afghan Jihad. The Afghan nomads, villagers and their young comrades from the Arab and Islamic world, who destroyed the empire of the Soviet tyrant, were, Praise be to Allah, not affected by these opinions. For if they had, then the Soviet forces would today be in the Arabian Peninsula.
It is only by the blessings of Allah that the Islamic resistance in Palestine was not affected by such thought. Otherwise, Israeli tanks would today be in Medina, Cairo, and Damascus in realization of the goal of Greater Israel.
These claims feign ignorance of the significant power of love of death, for Allah's Cause. It was the Mujahideen's desire for martyrdom that was the unique advantage, which resulted in the stealthy raids on New York and Washington - by the Grace of Allah. Nineteen Mujahideen who desired death were able to inflict damage upon America, such as it had never before witnessed in its history. This effective force is also apparent in the battle between Islam and Disbelief, currently taking place in Palestine. Israel sustains hundreds of killed and injured yearly, as a result of the martyrdom operations.
These claims provide the greatest service to the American propaganda, in actively discouraging the Muslims. It keeps them in a state of impotence, paralysis, and submission to the American and Zionist tyranny. If we have reached this state of inability, then let us act according to the saying of the poet:
If there was no escape from death,
Then due to incapability you will die as a coward.
As for the saying of those who sit back from Jihad that the period is one of ‘preparation’ not battle, there is a simple reply. It is to say to them that the unassuming men who destroyed the Soviet Union by the Grace of Allah, did not go - Praise be to Allah - through this ‘preparation’ at all!
Then we ask them, do you not know that Palestine has been occupied for more than eighty years? Do you not know that the Islamic Caliphate fell at about the same time? Do you not know that the Islamic world has been under Western influence for more than a century? What was your ‘preparation’ during those long decades?
Then we also ask them, until when do we wait for you to finish ‘preparing’? Another hundred years?
Then we further ask ourselves, what is the actual effort that you have put forward while your hairs turned grey in humiliation. What ‘preparation’ has been made for fighting the enemies of Islam? Or is your share from the ‘preparation’ to defame and slander the Mujahideen? Or is it making the Muslim Nation despair of Jihad and making peace with the oppressive sinful Rulers? Is this your Jihad in your opinion?
IN REALITY, THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE REGARDING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ‘PREPARATION’ AND WAR ARE THE PEOPLE OF JIHAD. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IMPLEMENTING IT PRACTICALLY. THIS IS BECAUSE IN THIS FIELD OF JIHAD, THEY ARE THE PEOPLE OF IJTIHAAD (ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE REASONING), WHICH MAKES THEM THE FOREMOST PEOPLE TO GIVE ISLAMIC RULINGS (FATWA’S). THEY ARE THE SCHOLARS WHO ARE PRACTICALLY LIVING THE REALITIES OF THESE CURRENT AFFAIRS, AND THIS MAKES THEM MOST SUITABLE FOR FATWA’S (ISLAMIC RULING’S), AS PROVEN BY THE GREAT SCHOLAR OF ISLAM, IBN TAYMIYAH, MAY ALLAH HAVE MERCY ON HIM, IN HIS BOOK (FATAWA KUBRA).
WHILE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THIS ‘PREPARATION’, WHICH IS IN REALITY A WAY TO GATHER MILITARILY FORCE AND CONSOLIDATE IT’S STRENGTH, TO SOMETHING THAT HAS BECOME A HINDRANCE TO THE WAY OF JIHAD.
The continual attacks on the American system, has finally pulled the Biggest Satan to the arena of Jihad. This is after it had remained hidden for a long time behind it’s various agents. Once in the arena of war, it will start feeling it’s own losses. Then it will start paying the price for it’s support of Israel and it’s agents in our own countries.
Our weapon in this battle is patience (sabr), perseverance (Musaabara) and reliance upon Allah (Tawakkul) in our fight against America. By the permission of Allah, this war will continue until the bleeding of America will result in it’s collapse.
If America possesses advanced weapons of mass destruction and well-equipped armies, than it should know that we possess, what they cannot. The love of death in the path of Allah.
American weapons as we have witnessed by our own eyes in Tora Bora and Shahiekoot, hides their shameful cowardliness. It is the love of death in the path of Allah, that is the weapon that will annihilate this evil empire of America, by the permission of Allah. The Mujahid youth will compete with each other to die in the path of Allah, to destroy the ‘myth’ of ‘Great’ America, by the permission of Allah. It is this ‘Great’ America that has been built from oppression, arrogance and deviation from the methodology that Allah is pleased with.........
Allah says in the Quran:
“O you who believe! Shall I guide you, to a trade that will save you from a painful torment? That you believe in Allah and His Messenger and that you strive hard and fight in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives; that will be better for you, if you but know.
(If you do so) He will forgive you your sins, and admit you into Gardens under which rivers flow, and pleasant dwellings in Eden (Paradise); that is indeed the great success.
And also (He will give you) another (blessing) which you love, - help from Allah (against your enemies) and a near victory. And give glad tidings to the Believers.” (61:10-13)
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By ... on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 02:37 pm: Edit
asalam alikum
And Sheikh Al-Maqdisi answers the same question with the following words:
What is your response to the Sheikhs who teach their followers that such operations parallel committing suicide, and that it only incurs harm and destruction upon the Palestinian Muslims?
Although I have some remarks on these operations which are carried out by certain youths in Palestine by exploding themselves with bombs in order to make Jihad against the Jews and to inflict gross damage within their ranks, I disagree with those who regard it as suicide and that the executor is decreed to Hellfire. The reason behind this is that the investigation of the evidence in Shari'ah, indicates that the harsh threat of Hellfire due to the suicide, is rather for the person who kills himself in protest against Allah's Will, or for fear and worry from Allah's Decree, or that he hastened death because he was impatient during tribulations or injury, etc.
Therefore, as long as the Muslim Monotheist carrying out such operations is not doing it for any of these incentives, then the suicide ruling and the acrimonious threat mentioned in the Hadiths must not be subjoined to that person.
However, what should be noted regarding such operations is that there are general literal evidence that forbid self-killing under any circumstance, even if it was not due to the above mentioned incentives. Thus, these operations were the subject of research and Ijtihad (analogical deductions) by scholars. It has its analogues and counterparts in early books of jurisprudence, for example it could correspond to the famous issue of Tatarrus (Shielding).
I have scrutinised this problem in a Fatwa (legal opinion), wherein I directed the youth who are in charge of such operations to study the matter legally and seriously. It alerted those youth to certain issues, the most important of which are the following:
1. Effort should be made in utilising the latest technological methods, like remote control bombing devices or timed-devices, which minimises the number of victims in the ranks of the Mujahideen, for this is obligatory upon them if it is attainable. is because the Mujahid brother is a precious jewel in this time and must not be wasted for targets that can be claimed without losses of this type.
2. These operations should focus on military targets which distress the enemy and it should manifest the radiant image of the Islamic Jihad by avoiding intentional killing of children and their like1, whom the Lawmaker (s.w.t) orders us to evade, except in disconcert necessity as in the Hadith related by As-Sa'b bin Jaththama in Bukhari: "The Prophet (s.a.w) passed by me at a place called Al-Abwa' or Waddan, and was asked whether it was permissible to attack the Mushrik (polytheist) warriors at night with the probability of exposing their woman and children to danger. The Prophet (s.a.w) replied, 'They (ie. woman and children) are from them (ie. the Mushriks).' I also heard the Prophet (s.a.w) saying, 'The institution of Hima2 is invalid except for Allah and His Messenger (s.a.w)'
3. The motive behind such operations should be to establish a truly important and general Maslaha (benefit), or to repel a true Mafsada (blight), not a doubtful one, that can not be repelled in any other way. As for carrying out these operations to kill a Kafir who can be killed by a pistol or gun, then sacrificing the self is not permitted because it is not a necessity and because it can be accomplished by other means.
In summary, our scholars have given Fatwas which permitted operations that are analogous and comparative to these, whereby a great and true blight can be repelled and by no other method.
However, the allegation of some Sheikhs that these Jihadi operations only incur bloodshed upon the Muslims, is the typical scepticism of those who let down the Jihad in every place and not just Palestine. If the Muslims were to pay attention and observe allegations of that kind, then they will never resurge and no flag of Jihad will be raised. How did Allah's Deen reach us and how did we conquest the east and west, if it was not for the limbs and blood of the former Mujahideen? How can there be Jihad without bloodshed? How can blood be spared without blood being shed? How can Jihad be accomplished without sacrifice and blood? Did not Allah (s.w.t) Say: "Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for the price that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight in Allah's Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed..." [9: 111] And also Said: "Let those (believers) who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the Cause of Allah, and whoso fights in the Cause of Allah, and is killed or gets victory, We shall bestow on him a great reward." [4: 74] Along with many other verses and Hadiths which exposes the falsehood and illegitimacy in the scepticism of those who spread disquieting news, those who are appointed in the Muslim ranks to fail the Jihad. Verily, Allah Says the Truth and guides to the Path.
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By furman on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 12:39 pm: Edit
Assalamualikum,
I am a little confused and I hope someone can clarify with evidence. What is the reward for a Shaheed?
Intercession for 70:
1. Relatives - wives, not blood related
2. Blood Family - parents
3. Anyone close - friends?
I assumed it was anybody close but I am not sure.
Wa'alaikumassalaam
By Rasheed on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 09:58 pm: Edit
the hadith says, "Sab'eena min ahlihi" which means family, relatives etc., who are Muslims. Allah knows best
By ??? on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:54 am: Edit
Assalamualikum
I don't have any evidence for this but someone told me that some of the people of knowledge said that it can be any muslim not just family, for example those who help you to go to jihad or encourage you etc...Allah knows best. Insha Allah when they have time I'll get them to find evidences from the Arabic websites and see if they can be translated insha Allah.
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