Thanks Oorang.
The radical Sunni Islamist, para-military terrorist group is composed of Iraqi Kurds, Arabs and others. The group surfaced just before September 2001 as a result of a merger of several Kurdish Sunni groups, and follows the same extremist interpretation of Islam as does al-Qaeda, to which it is closely affiliated.
Its leader, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, once proclaimed to a Kurdish newspaper that "as far as Islam is concerned, democracy from beginning to end is heresy." Ansar is blamed for three attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and has had at least three Canadian members, all from the Toronto area.
In a 2005 briefing to a Senate committee on terrorism, CSIS director Jim Judd noted former Scarborough resident Hassan Farhat and Canadian Saeed Rasoul Sobrhatollah Muhammad, then a 31-year-old Seneca College graduate, were linked to the group. Another brother, Canadian Masoud Rasoul, believed then to be in northern Iraq, also was alleged to be involved with the group, according to the Toronto Star. The whereabouts of the three men is not known. The men met at at Scarborough's Salaheddin mosque, a relative told the Star.
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=4f3161ad-0573-449c-9682-99f68731d0a0
Secret files against terror suspects revealed
February 23, 2008
The case against a group of Canadians sometimes referred to as "the Secret Trial Five" isn't as secret as it used to be.
Ottawa unveiled more specific allegations against the five terrorism suspects yesterday: for example, that one suspect called the satellite phone of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, and that another was in charge of a group of training camp recruits in Afghanistan.
In hundreds of pages of court documents yesterday, Canadian ministers signed new security certificates against alleged members of the al-Qaeda network. In doing so, the government narrowly beat a date imposed by the Supreme Court for the previous certificates to expire.
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They could be anywhere...........the vapidity of those who are not concerned regarding the potential threat of radical Islamists like these three. Thanks for the link Oorang.
Universal Islamic Blasphemy Law?
And incidents which have occurred within just the past 2-months illustrate that what prevails in Pakistan is hardly unique, but rather emblematic. Pervez Kambakhsh, a 23 year-old Afghan journalist was recently convicted (January 2008) of "blasphemy" -- consistent with classical Islamic Law -- for downloading and distributing an article "insulting" Islam, including the "blasphemous" allegation that "...Muhammad had ignored the rights of women.." Subsequently the Afghan Senate issued a statement on the case -- signed by its leader, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, a reputed ally of President Hamid Karzai -- approving the death sentence conferred on Mr Kambakhsh, also in full accord with the Shari'a, by a city court in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Fallout over airport prayer space exposes deep tensions
Days after Salt Lake Tribune columnist Rebecca Walsh wrote about her own constitutional concerns, he filed a formal complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration. Walsh, whom he quoted and continues to quote in conversations, called the building a "government-sanctioned Islamic center." Her attention to the issue seemingly emboldened him.
In his handwritten complaint, he wrote: "Islamists are required to wage cultural jihad and they seem to be engaging in 'sharia [sic] by the inch' here."
Thanks Oorang.