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Islamic Terrorism in the West ( Mega thread)

I'm in the middle of pitching a TV project to Hollywood. It's a reboot of All in the Family, but instead of a NY cab driver, the main character is going to be an Islamic teacher in Toronto, and the working title is All in the Madrasa. Pure genius concept, he can spew all the bigoted shit that Archie Bunker did back in a less enlightened age, and because he's a Muslim, nobody can get upset! Liberals won't complain for fear of being labeled islamophobic, and the network would never dare to cancel it. Job security for life, plus the weaker minds out there get to be indoctrinated in the ways of Islam, sort of like they are now with the Kardashians.
 
I am of the belief that every religious institution needs to publish their sermons online either transcripts or video and the transcripts must be in either English or French. This is not much of a stretch as many churches already do that anyways. It will not stop all of the hate speech, but it will stop it being promoted as the official party line from the Pulpit.
 
[quote author=Kat Stevens]  and the working title is All in the Madrasa.
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Better than All in the Masada  ;D
 
Jarnhamar I think I owe you and this site a better explanation of my opinion, or well a more nuanced one. My humor has been ill lately, so please forgive me for being short with you previously.

My understanding of your position is that, places of worship must be monitored via video to make sure no hate speech, abuses or basically any bad things happen there.. because we have seen videos and transcripts or reports of these things happening in places of worship.

My issue with that is that the negative things you speak of are generally extremely isolated issues. A quick search online lists via wiki that their are more then 90 Mosques in Canada. That does not count Musallahs, prayer rooms etc. In Kelowna alone we have one Mosque and 2 prayer rooms that are used for public prayers. Not to mention the musallah in penticton that does not qualify as a mosque and I would guess that there are far far more then 90 places of worship for Muslims alone in Canada. I would guesstimate 4-500 places of worship for Muslims in Canada or more.

Compare that to the 9, terrorist instances in Canada by Muslim extremists since 1999, (source ) and you will understand why I do not feel it is an issue to surveil all Mosques in Canada. I personally think watching issues like this to be a better use of taxpayers money. Of course I know you will tell me that, due to extremists mosques these people radicalized but that is a simplistic answer to an extremely complex question. I found one quick article about paths to radicalization to be of interest and they even try to give a solution too! (Suprising in this day and age) the article .

Now also our right wing.. (i do not want to call it news site because I find it is not worth that title) group the Rebel has a list of "extremists" or "radical" Imams link but I find the majority of who they list is either taken out of context, because I know the person and I know his opinion on the topic, or it is something that is completely legal to advocate for in Canada, so thus making it not worthy of surveillance. Mind you their was a couple I am not sure about, but I am not claiming there is no radical imams or mosques in Canada. I am arguing that mass surveillance is not needed or accetpable. Also furthermore quite a few Mosques in Canada already record and upload the sermons they have to online sources, so quite a number places are already voluntarily doing what you feel is best.

And now for why mass surveillance fails and is a bad idea, that creates more problems for stopping attacks.  All it does is breed an us vs them mentality, that divides Canadian Muslims against Canadians and leaves a fertile recruiting ground for extremist scum. Leaving law enforcement officers thousands upon thousands of extra hours of work to sift through, sermons, talks and actions of innocent people, they are wasting valuable time they could be using catching terrorists. The sheer costs to install surveillance equipment would be in the billions, the cost of extra manpower to effectively sift the material would be in the millions. All of that money would be better spent on initiatives like the CAVE conference Mufti Aasim Rashid had with the RCMP link. Combating youth unemployment, so they do not feel disenfranchised. Working with minority groups and reconciling why we are at war with so called Muslim groups to the community, more talking about the Afghanistan invasion then Daesh.

Now my give, in all of this, is if we do have an known radical Imam or Mosque, then yes, watch it. But as those links show, the RCMP likely know who all the radical or people susceptible to radicalization already are. So lets allocate our resources to watching the bad guys, not us innocent chaps who pick our nose during friday khutbah. Do you have any idea how embarrassing that would be if that gets videotaped and reviewd :S

My opinion will always be for smaller government interference in daily life and more personal liberty. So maybe we can not reconcile our two drastically different opinions, but alas, this is Canada ;) I'm allowed to disagree 😂

I hope this is better and more in tune with what is expected from me.

Abdullah
 
AbdullahD said:
Jarnhamar I think I owe you and this site a better explanation of my opinion, or well a more nuanced one. My humor has been ill lately, so please forgive me for being short with you previously.
The devil is in the details, welcome back good neighbor  ;)

My understanding of your position is that, places of worship must be monitored via video to make sure no hate speech, abuses or basically any bad things happen there.. because we have seen videos and transcripts or reports of these things happening in places of worship.

It was a theoretical supposition.  A Kellie Leitch, so to speak. Would it ever pass as a law? For a hundred reasons no.

Hypothetically speaking even though if it were to pass as a law, it would be superficial at best. You mention some mosques already DO post their sermons online and you're right. If you watched the link I posted above you would see that one of the stories was about a Mosque that publishes their sermons online but also has a secret password protected chat site where their Muslim message is quite different than what's spoken in front of the camera. 'Live as a state within a state until you are ready to take over' kind of stuff.

Lying is dishonest and dishonourable but it's context right?  Like, Taqiyya?. The lying to  Kafir (unbelievers) in order to advance the cause of Islam. "In some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them". 
Tawriya as well is another interesting Muslim phrase- intentionally creating a false impression.


More on "context" coming up.

My issue with that is that the negative things you speak of are generally extremely isolated issues.

I think it happens more than people recognize. When the speaker in the Mosque in Toronto was talking about purifying the place and killing non-Muslims no one inside the mosque reported it. Even after a video of the speech was placed on line there was no uproar or media story. It only became news after someone made a complaint against the Mosque, I'm guessing, in retaliation after protestors were being investigated for hate speech. A little research and there it was.  Of course what was the first line of defense? Context. The murdering people stuff was taken in the wrong context. I'll be honest this whole "wrong context" seems to be the first line of defense when defending violence found in the Quran, including by yourself.

Besides someone blowing themselves up in a downtown Canadian city isn't always the end result of radicalization. Look at Robert Cerantonio, an Australian convert to Islam who is said to be instrumental in 2015 in talking to one of the 3 Canadian teenagers into attempting to travel to Syria and support ISIS. Luckily the 3 idiots were intercepted by the police.
CSIS is tracking some 60 Canadians who returned to Canada after supposedly fighting for ISIS. How many Canadians do you think are over there now supporting them?


You mentioned the Rebel.
but I find the majority of who they list is either taken out of context, because I know the person and I know his opinion on the topic
Of course, wrong context, again.

I am arguing that mass surveillance is not needed or accetpable.
Oversight is important when you're dealing with impressionable students.
If you attend basic training in the military you will see a desk at the back of your classrooms. That desk will have a copy of the lesson plan you are being taught and any applicable reference material. This is so staff members or people working in standards can stop by classes at random and sit down to watch and listen to the class. Ensure the instructor is teaching the proper material, not talking out of their ass and not going off the rails teaching their own shit. I personally hate it however I've seen cases of why it's 100% needed and required.



  All it does is breed an us vs them mentality, that divides Canadian Muslims against Canadians and leaves a fertile recruiting ground for extremist scum.
I wish I could recall a great quote about this. To paraphrase- if Muslims are that easily offended and can become radicalized because of silly reasons then they were bound to be radicalized anyways and just looking for a reason.

Leaving law enforcement officers thousands upon thousands of extra hours of work to sift through, sermons, talks and actions of innocent people, they are wasting valuable time they could be using catching terrorists.
Not exactly correct. Nothing stops joe blow citizen from watching an online sermon and filing a complaint with the police when they see something they deem hate speech. In fact, that is exactly how the fellow in Toronto was caught. A citizen filed a complaint after seeing it online. No thousands and thousands of extra police hours required.

Besides, the Liberals already hired some 55 people to scour online sources in Canada for hate speech.


If you don't mind me asking what's your views on Taqiyya and Tawriya?
 
AbdullhaD and Jarnhamer,

I'd like to thank you for the discussion you have shared here.  Definitely some interesting points to make a person consider the differences in opinions and positions within Canadian society and while I can relate to parts of both of your positions I've been following the discussion for a couple of weeks to see how this comes out.

So thank you for the civilized debate on how the positions shake out and the information shared.

foresterab
 
I will touch on a couple things only, I am relaxing in bed ;)

First thing, some thing you touched on is one 'toned down' sermon in english, for the masses and one far more radical for "devout" in a different language. One simple flaw in this, in many many Mosques is.. we all do not speak the same language ;) lets talk about Kelowna and Kamloops. We have Bosnian, Syrian, Somalian, Nigerian, Saudi, Pakistani, Bengali, Indian (native and east 😂), Canadian, Moroccan, South African Muslims in both of those Mosques.. and they do not all speak the same language.

So maybe, in some isolated instances (which is the main bone of my arguement) this is the case. But not in the rest of Canada. Heck sometimes you have a Pakistani guy leading the khutbah, reciting arabic so badly, because he does not understand it at all, that the arabs do not have a clue what he is saying. (It happens.. quite often 😂). So yea maybe a lot of people try to speak arabic in the khutbah, but that does not make it intelligible.

Second thing, you imply that Muslims do not self report. Anecdotally I can tell you that is not the case, but I will one up that too. So I like to say trump is wrong, that Muslims do self report, because I dare say the FBI would know :). Also Muslims are become much more aware of issues that pertain directly to Muslims. So if we can flag things as they come up we are ahead of the game.

Thirdly, this more eccentric? Idea you have that we are like a sleeper cell just waiting for the code word to rise up and take over... gosh darn it, you figured us out, the games over, you win 😂 I wish you could understand how ludicrous this sounds man, it is darn near impossible to get all Muslims to agree on when Ramadan starts and end, when Eid is, wether to celebrate the Prophets birthday or heck even when to hold an open house to dispell myths about Islam.. if you could see the pettiness that goes on in Mosques around Canada regarding these issues, you would sleep like a baby at night. But this does not negate that, the 1% of lunatics may be doing some idiotic thing like this, but it does not mean we all are.

Fourthly, context. Sorry, but I do not trust anything, at all, unless I know the complete context. Just like a guy pointing and firing a firearm at another person, context matters. If a guy is robbing a bank and does it, he is a murderer and deserves the gallows. But if he is a soldier under fire, it is something completely different. So until we know who, when, why, where etc something was said or done, their is absolutely no point in making any judgements on it. Especially with Islam you need to understand, who, were, when, why and how it was traditionally or classically, implemented and contrast that to this day and age and compare it to the legal framework of the sharia, before passing judgement.

Fifthly, you asked about my opinion on something to do with Islamic sharia. Well my opinion is worth mud on these matters, I am in now way, shape or form eligible to pass an opinion on them. But here is a read up on taqqiya, but I swear I have covered it before already.. or maybe not, a lot of Islamophobes scream taqqiya and it is quite annoying, to be honest. Tawriya was it? God, they are getting creative these days, heck I honestly did not know what the word meant and when I went to look it up.. all it showed was anti-Islam sites for the first little while. Any rate, I would just say review the link I used for taqqiya. Tawriya, ommitting facts or creative interpretations of the truth is haram in almost every single case. Another link that is weak from a scholarly perspective but short and lists the only three times a Muslim can lie and kind of out lines limitations so taking these two links together, i think you will get the picture.

I am sticking to my guns that Muslims do self report as the FBI said, mass surveillance is futile as my multiple links early showed and we should zero in on other things. Btw I have been trying to down an extremist page on facebook for a while and it will not come down, they hold Anwar awlaki and others like him as martyrs.. lets just say I am up to 3 or 4 death threats now 😂. Next step since Facebook is not shutting it down is the RCMP. Also I did not ignore your bmq example on purpose, i just forget about it and do not feel it is apples to apples here and it is now 29 minutes past when i wanted to be asleep so I am going to crash.

Abdullah

Ps ForesterAb, I am honestly amazed at this conversation myself. Do not tell anyone, but I had to learn some stuff to supply answers on here too. But please remember I am not a scholar, I try to only quote legitimate scholars.. but if I slip up, please forgive me and do not hold it against me. I am extremely fearful, that while i try to clear up these misconceptions, i accidentally give out incorrect info due to being lazy and someone believes something that I never meant to convey. Any rate thank you :) 35 minutes past bedtime now 😂😂😂 night guys.
 
AbdullahD said:
I will touch on a couple things only, I am relaxing in bed ;)

Some fatwas for the bedroom eh?

1).
First thing, some thing you touched on is one 'toned down' sermon in english, for the masses and one far more radical for "devout" in a different language. One simple flaw in this, in many many Mosques is.. we all do not speak the same language ;)

Here's some stuff I pulled from an undercover video taken over 4 months. Fluent English.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btx0mm5KCMI]
Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham UK. .
1:39- "I don't believe them because they are Kuffar and lying is a part of their religion" (some irony there)
2:30- Christians, Jews, America, UK, France,Germany  "Come against the religion of Islam"  (what does the Quran say to do with people who go against Islam again?_
2:50- American convert to Islam- "We want to do away with man made laws"
4:09- Speaker doesn't agree with violent terrorists, but he's closer to them then the criminal kaffir.
4:39- If a Muslim doesn't follow their strict rules "bury him with the Kaffir"
4:51- "Muslims shouldn't be happy living in anything other than a total Islamic state"

I'll stop there but there's almost an hour of this stuff.

Green lane mosque also has a secret chat room set up where other sermons get broadcasted to a select group of followers. Any guesses on what they talk about?

Sorry Abdullah, because of videos like this I'm not buying the "extremely isolated instances" mantra.

2).
Second thing, you imply that Muslims do not self report. Anecdotally I can tell you that is not the case
If that is what I came across as implying then that's mistaken. Luckily Muslims do self-report. From reporting their peers down to reporting their own family members (as incredibly hard as I imagine that is). I think there's considerable obstacles that come with "self-reporting" such as the threat of violence and ostracization.  I think in many cases too people don't see things talking about killing unbelievers as hate speech because they've become accustomed to hearing it.

3).
Thirdly, this more eccentric? Idea you have that we are like a sleeper cell just waiting for the code word to rise up and take over... gosh darn it, you figured us out, the games over, you win 😂I wish you could understand how ludicrous this sounds man
I don't think I was implying that at all. You're kind of moving the goal posts there.  I've said numerous times I think the flash to bang of how quick followers of Islam go from every day people to violent outraged mobs is much quicker and pronounced than any other religion.


4).
Fourthly, context. Sorry, but I do not trust anything, at all, unless I know the complete context. Just like a guy pointing and firing a firearm at another person, context matters. If a guy is robbing a bank and does it, he is a murderer and deserves the gallows. But if he is a soldier under fire, it is something completely different. So until we know who, when, why, where etc something was said or done, their is absolutely no point in making any judgements on it. Especially with Islam you need to understand, who, were, when, why and how it was traditionally or classically, implemented and contrast that to this day and age and compare it to the legal framework of the sharia, before passing judgement.

This simply seems like a convenient way to justify unacceptable by todays standard speech to me.
"Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like' I don't think they're talking about which direction to drive there.

5).
Fifthly, you asked about my opinion on something to do with Islamic sharia. Well my opinion is worth mud on these matters, I am in now way, shape or form eligible to pass an opinion on them.

Now I find that very strange. Why aren't you able to pass an opinion on them Abdullah?  An opinion is just an opinion after all. With the amount of Mosques you've visited, your Islamic contacts all over the world, all the reading and reasearch you've down and your self-professed love of the academic side if Islam I would think you're in an exceptional position to offer an opinion.  But, I've noticed you often respond to questions like this by attempting to send the question asker elsewhere to read up on someone elses words. Other websites.

If I was a suspicious sort.... I would wonder if this was a subtle attempt to spread the word of Islam  >:D
But really, I find it quite strange.



6).
But here is a read up on taqqiya, but I swear I have covered it before already.. or maybe not, a lot of Islamophobes scream taqqiya and it is quite annoying, to be honest.
What's your definition of an Islamophobe, Abdullah?



7).
I am sticking to my guns that Muslims do self report as the FBI said
No disagreement here


8).
lets just say I am up to 3 or 4 death threats now 😂. Next step since Facebook is not shutting it down is the RCMP.
You'll have an easier time getting FB to shut down the page if you report them for being right wing.

9).
Also I did not ignore your bmq example on purpose, i just forget about it and do not feel it is apples to apples here
I'll wait for it to sink in  ;)
 
Words from a Canadian Ex-Muslim.

http://www.sedaa.org/2017/03/where-is-the-solidarity-with-ex-muslims/
If you prick us, do we not bleed?

In the Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare wrote those words for a Jew to say, but today, those words will come from the mouth of an ex-Muslim.

I normally try to stay positive and veer far away from the victimhood narrative, as I was raised to think of myself as a victim when I was a Muslim. I was taught that the big, bad non-believers all hated us and wanted us dead and don’t care about us and that we should hate them back, we should never trust them, and indeed, that we should kill them.

But growing up in Canada, I saw no evidence of that. My teachers weren’t Muslim, but they were kind and loving.
More at the link.


On the Author
Yasmine is a Canadian citizen of an Arab background. She has written a memoir about her journey out of Islam, ‘Some of my best friends are Jewish, and other confessions of an ex-Muslim’.

She endured decades of physical and mental torture. She was forced into a marriage with a member of Al Qaeda, after he was bailed out of prison by Osama bin Laden himself.  She wore a niqab, and lived in a home/prison with paper covering all the windows. Yet, somehow, with nothing but a high school diploma and a baby in tow, she got out.




 
1) Muslims represent, 4.5% of the UK's population coming in around 2.7 million adherents and you found one mosque. Now if you were finding hundreds of Mosques spewing extremist crap, then I would give you a leg to stand on. But yes the bad, is very bad and it exists, but it does not mean the majority of Muslims are bad.

2) Sorry I misread you there, my bad. But I highly doubt we are desensitized to hate speech, any Imam who talks about killing the kuffar, gets noticed and reported. I have access to two tafsirs of Quran and the verses people use to legitimize killing the non-believers are not explained that way in the Tafsirs and Qurans i have seen. But yea, if you take it out of context it is easy to get there. But I assure you stuff like this is not widespread. I am on the road right now ill try to find something later to back my stuff up.

3) Twice I misread you, again I am sorry. I think the so called 'flashbang' has more to do with cultural, political or social issues then religious issues. Otherwise the Muslim countries that do not have these flashbang issues, would. Also looking to the riots in the US and protests etc.. I think I have something to stand on.

4) Oh the things I will never get you to agree on 😂 but I understand your viewpoint and I can respect that but I do not agree.

5) If you ask my opinion on things not to do with sharia principles, guidelines or laws. Ill give you an opinion. But if you ask my opinion on those things, it is the equivalent of asking a first year engineering student to design you plans for a thermo-nuclear reactor or some such nonsense, i simply do not have a strong enough grounding and I am not confident enough to give opinion. Until and unless I get that well rounded education, I won't give opinions.

I hope that suffices.. but then again, if you became Muslim, I just have to say, i would probably find myself extremely amused at the irony lol. But alas I assure you I am not doing that.

6) if it makes any sense I consider you a critic, not an Islamophobe. My definition, which i have never articulated is basically.. Anyone who has a fear or phobia of Islam but lacks even the most rudimentary knowledge of Islam and actively combats Islam out of ignorance. You, I find you to be a critic of Islam, because you seem to actually know some things about Islam. So I guess knowledge and how actively you fight against Islam makes the difference. If you are ignorant but do not do anything either, I would not consider that person an Islamophobe.

7) 99 more points to go 😂

8) I agree with that sadly.

9) once my gut falls off and I finish BMQ, I will get back to you 😂
 
AbdullahD, I am one that for the most part stays on the sidelines. However I appreciate both jarnhamar and yourself discussing this topic in a civil manner. It helps people like myself gain insight into the various topics.
 
AbdullahD] 5) If you ask [b]my opinion on things not to do with sharia principles said:
Now their are things that are covered by Islamic law and the sharia.. and things that are not. There are things that are considered obligatory and things that are considered encouraged or neutral or disliked. The sharia gets a lot of hate, because people misinterpret it and force people to do things (which i may add is forbidden).

I am a believer that the Sharia is comprehensive, but not exhaustive. Ie within the sharia you can find tips for how to get deals suchs as getting three quotes for a price before buying.. but it is not obligatory to follow these guidelines and the sharia wont explain to you why GMC products are so much better then Ford's.

The sharia's main goal is to get everyone to paradise, outside of this main goal there is a lot  of lee way. Heck the sharia will teach you sex etiquette but it is hardly obligatory to follow it all lol, so yea it is comprehensive and the more you follow it the closer to God you can become but! You dont need to follow every single thing.

As you can see above it seems you are confident in telling us what Sharia's main goal is and feel it is comprehensive. Not something suggested by a neophyte.
But now you don't have an opinion on anything relating to it? I'm sure you understand my confusion  ???


6) if it makes any sense I consider you a critic, not an Islamophobe.

Thanks Abdullah I appreciate that though I wouldn't have been insulted had you said otherwise. According to many definitions even disliking the religion of Islam makes me an Islamophobe.
As far as fear goes if I have a fear of something it's that that Canada will begin looking like Germany, Sweden, France etc.. while our leaders live in gated communities with armed security waving to the rest of Canada telling us everything is fine (that's possibly crossing over into another topic though).



With that, I believe I've said all I can on the subject and I'm just going in circles. I will bow out for the time being until I can offer something more substantial.

 
My first quote was dealing with a specific thing, you wanted my opinion on, something that scholars need to give fatawa on. And something I lack the ability to reproduce from memory.

My second quote are general statements that I believe to be true and can attribute to different scholars directly. So I can trust myself their. Mufti Aasim Rashid, Mufti Menk, Mufti Abu Layth, Mufti Atabek Shukrov etc etc for the misinterpret one. Moulana Mazhar, Moulana Islamullah etc for the Sharia being comprehensive. Regarding the sharias main goal is to get someone to paradise, just about every scholar I have ever talked to.

But something as complex as taqqiya or other such things or things even outside my madhab, I can not answer because I simply don't have a solid enough grounding.

If you want Islamic sex etiquette get a book by Mufti Ibn Adam Al Kawthri I think it is. Neat book 😂

I am not a debater usually, so maybe I do not convey what I mean very well on occasion and to be bluntly honest, sometimes I give opinion when I really should not. So sometimes I am strict on it, other times i slip up, but generally speaking I dislike strongly giving and have severe worries about giving opinions on the sharia. But that does not mean I won't screw up, if you see my occasionally screw up and give opinion, just know I do not like it.

Ps also i know my explanation is weak, i am noticing that now and trying to build a better guideline on how I handle these issues in the future. To be honest, this site, is the only place, in the world, were I have to worry about this. So I lack a more defined framework regarding it, but I am working on it and will try to stick to the framework I develop so i do not become a hypocrite.
 
Gunman wannabe at Orly Airport yesterday, said he was there to die for Allah.  Fuckwit got his wish.

Shared under the fair dealings provision of the copyright act, full story, photos and video at link below.

Autopsy finds drugs, alcohol in Paris airport attacker
Gunman shot at Paris airport was 'under the influence,' father says
Thomson Reuters Posted: Mar 19, 2017 11:45 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 19, 2017 8:56 PM ET

Police questioned and released relatives of a man shot dead at a Paris airport, as investigators continue to search for clues and an autopsy and toxicology tests found drugs and alcohol in his system.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said late on Saturday that the man, named as 39-year-old Ziyed Ben Belgacem, had shouted he was there to "die for Allah" when he tried to seize the gun from a woman air force member on patrol at Orly airport on Saturday morning.

After throwing down a bag containing a can of petrol and putting an air pistol to the head of the soldier, he was shot three times by her colleagues.

More than 230 people have died in France in the past two years at the hands of attackers allied to the militant Islamic Islamist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). These include coordinated bombings and shootings in November 2015 in Paris when 130 people were killed and scores injured.

With the country in the throes of a highly charged election campaign before a two-round presidential election in April and May, the attacks fuelled the political debate about security.

Belgacem, who had been in and out of prison for theft and drug offences according to judicial sources, was already on the authorities' radar. They said he became a radicalized Muslim when he served a prison term several years ago for drug-trafficking.

He had been reporting regularly to police under the terms of a provisional release from custody for theft and he did not have the right to leave the country.

Several hours before he was killed, Belgacem had shot and wounded a police officer with his air pistol after a routine traffic stop north of Paris before fleeing, officials said.

Later he entered a bar in Vitry-sur-Seine, on the other side of Paris about 10 kilometres from Orly, and opened fire with his air gun without hitting anyone. He also stole a car before arriving at the airport.

Regret after police stopped car

Belgacem's father, who was initially detained by police but then released, denied his son had been involved in terrorism.
"My son has never been a terrorist. He has never prayed: he drinks. And, under the influence of alcohol and cannabis, this is what happens," the father, whose name was not given, told Europe 1.

He said he had received a phone call from his son in which Belgacem referred to shooting the police officer, saying: "I ask your forgiveness. I screwed up with a policeman."

The Paris prosecutors' office said toxicology tests conducted as part of an autopsy found traces of cocaine and cannabis in Belgacem's blood.
He also had 0.93 grams of alcohol per litre of blood when he died Saturday, the prosecutors' office said. The legal limit for alcohol while driving in France is 0.5 grams per litre.

A police search of his flat found cocaine, said Molins, the Paris prosecutor.

A brother and cousin of Belgacem were also questioned by police and then released on Sunday, the judicial source said.
'Our government is overwhelmed,' says Le Pen

Belgacem was born in Paris, according to the prosecutor. French media said his family was of Tunisian origin.
Presidential candidates responded swiftly to the incident.

Conservative François Fillon said that France was in a "situation of virtual civil war" and spoke out against a proposal to lift a state of emergency in place since the November 2015 attacks.

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, running on an anti-immigration, anti-EU ticket, said the Orly attacker could have caused a "massacre."
"Our government is overwhelmed, stunned, paralyzed like a rabbit in the headlights," she told an election rally.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/paris-orly-airport-man-shot-by-soldiers-1.4031797
 
A Montreal mosque is facing a police complaint and rebukes from the larger Muslim community after a video of an imam delivering a sermon in which he asks for Jews to be killed surfaced online.

The sermon took place at the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque in the city's Saint-Michel neighbourhood on Dec. 23, 2016.

The video was posted to the mosque's YouTube channel three days later. The imam in the video is Jordanian cleric Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr — he was reportedly an invited guest of the mosque.

In the video, the imam says in Arabic, "O Muslim, O servant of Allah, O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
Part of the phrase references an Islamic hadith, which interprets the words and actions by the Prophet Muhammad.
CBC independently verified the speech and its translation.

Spike in calls about hateful comments since mosque shooting, Montreal police chief says

CBC Montreal has reached out to the Dar Al-Arqam mosque for comment and was told no one was available.
Accused of inciting violence

The video was brought to the attention of B'nai Brith Canada, which filed a complaint with Montreal police on Monday.

The organization said it is totally unacceptable that a mosque would allow this to go on.

"This is inciting violence, and this is inciting radicalization," said Harvey Levine, regional director of B'nai Brith in Quebec.

"It's against the law and has to be stopped," he said, adding that the complaint was filed with the Montreal hate crimes unit.

Harvey Levine, regional director of B'nai Brith in Quebec, urged police to act more quickly.

Montreal police confirmed they received a complaint, but would not provide any more information.

Mosque should apologize, says Muslim council

The president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, Salam Elmenyawi, wants to know why the imam was invited. He says the mosque should apologize.

He added that the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque is not one of the more than 40 institutions the council represents.

Imam Ziad Asali of the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects told CBC Montreal's Daybreak Thursday that he was also mystified as to why the cleric was invited to preach.

"I do not understand how this person was invited to come and give a sermon and spread this hatred in Montreal against any community," he said. 

The hadith is one of more than 100,000 that are written in many books, some of which are considered authentic, while others are not, said Asali.

"To use the themes of the Prophet to spread hatred is actually something that is disrespectful towards the Prophet himself," Asali said.

There are mosques in Montreal, the imam said, that embrace a more extremist message.

"These people, not only do they show hatred towards non-Muslims, they even show hatred to us Muslims," he said.

Other complaints

Levine said this is the second complaint against a Montreal-area mosque filed with the Montreal police's hate crime unit in just over 40 days.

He said the police are still investigating that first instance but says they are not taking action soon enough.

"This is totally unacceptable. We want to know why the hate crimes unit has not done something to date yet. This person should be arrested and charged for hate crimes," said Levine.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/imam-sermon-montreal-mosque-1.4037397

Abdullah, this appears to be a clear cut case of hate speech from the pulpit of a Montreal mosque from just before Christmas last year.  A complaint to police about this has been made and is apparently the 2nd complaint in the past 40 days.  This makes me ponder, despite your personal experience of never coming across it yourself in a western mosque, is this then just an eastern NA problem?  Or, is it catch as catch can where you maybe have been fortunate to have missed shit head days at whichever house of worship you were visiting or are the eastern branches of your faith up to no good at times. 

It is heartening to read in the story that there have been objections raised from within your community against this POS from Jordan's sermon.  But the fact that it was posted in video, on the website of this particular mosque after the fact, does suggest to me to be an official sanction of such filth from the powers that be there.  That, isn't cool or acceptable to me by any religious/non religious organization.  I hope the authorities take some affirmative action instead of quailing at the though of offending someone.

 
And yet some are confused when people say enough with this coddling of the muslim religion. We aren't afraid to condemn Catholics, Protestants, Jews, etc. When you elevate one group above the rest it is only a matter of time before they believe that they are superior and can do what they wish without repercussion.

I hope charges come swiftly and the "leadership" of that localities religious institution is removed.
 
Flavus101 said:
And yet some are confused when people say enough with this coddling of the muslim religion. We aren't afraid to condemn Catholics, Protestants, Jews, etc. When you elevate one group above the rest it is only a matter of time before they believe that they are superior and can do what they wish without repercussion.

I hope charges come swiftly and the "leadership" of that localities religious institution is removed.

George Orwell's "Animal Farm".
 
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