Canada still a terrorist haven. From CP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
OTTAWA (CP) - International terrorists and crime syndicates seem to be using Canada to launder dirty money at a sharply rising rate, concludes a federal report released Thursday. Almost 200 cases involving $700 million in suspect financial transactions were investigated over the past fiscal year, says the federal agency that tracks financing by suspected criminals.That's significantly more than the $460 million tracked the previous year of 2002-2003, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (Fintrac) says in its annual report.
Of the $700 million tracked over the past year, about 10 per cent is thought to be linked to terrorist activity financing "and threats to the security of Canada," says the agency.
When I talk to people that refuse to acknowledge that we are at war and then I see reports like this, it's just another reminder of what kind of role apathy and ignorance play in this conflict. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans, Canadians and Europeans that will never pull their heads out of the sand and this is how terrorists thrive.
We must remain on our guard along both borders.
Poor Canada. So desperate to be the socialist nirvana of multicultural heaven, that it ends up being used and abused by the dregs of the world. Oh, the joys of diversity!
There are all sorts of things to deplore about the United States, and there seem to be many in Canada who enjoy deploring them. But in so doing, and in basing a large part of one's national identity on being not-America, and in insisting that everything about America is wrong, the Canadian journalists, politicians, and others whose job it is to instruct, are in danger of forgetting that whatever they dislike about the United States, whatever influence they wish to reject from the Colossus of the South, that influence, those dislikeable things, are as nothing compared to what the belief-system of Islam, and the Jihad, mean for all those who, more or less, share all sorts of assumptions about freedom, individualism, and mental autonomy.
Why did the Canadian press go out of its way to hide the Muslim origins, and the reasons for a mass murder based on Muslim attitudes, of the mass-murderer Marc Lepine? Who made that decision? Was it useful? Would it not have been better to explain what it was, in his background, that led him to kill 17 female engineerng and science students, instead of presenting him as a madman, whose crime was completely incomprehensible?
Why have so many people in Montreal and elsewhere in Quebec in a policy of absolute madness, permitted easy entry to all sorts of Muslim maghrebins, Moroccans and Algerians, only because they were francophone, and would presumably swell the ranks of the French-speakers and further dilute the power of anglophones in Quebec. But what a dangerous and foolish policy -- to think that as long as immigrants used the same language, they would be a better fit, and not a thought was given to what, in reality, Islam is all about. Among those immigrants are present terrorists, and others who are simply making maximum use of their presence to increase Muslim political power (rising in the parties, for example, sometimes under deliberately Frenchified names)and, in flexing that power, doing their utmost to disarm critics, to misinform and misstate the contents of Islam, and to limit the power of the security services to monitor them.
It is easy to imagine how the Americans must feel, now, about this. But shouldn't this worry Canadians -- even Parti Quebecois Canadians -- as well?
Both that "not-anglophone" basis of the immigration policy in Quebec, and the "Not-America" theme that defines so much in Canadian public life, will in the end do great harm -- to both America, and even more -- to Canada itself.
Is CAIR also posted in Canada by chance? Just wondering.
Yes, merely a case of just deserts. In a country where elites pursued their psychopathologies to the logical conclusion, suicide. I've been observing several islamic shows on our multi-culti cable services, these people are quite open about their intentions for canada. They see a blank slate for themselves, funded by the historical civilization. They're agressively fielding candidates in the toronto area, hope to have 10 mp's in the next few years.
Its all a function of a complicit state and media, each group hurtling to its own self orchestrated demise.
Its likely that US special operations and newly reconstituted CIA combined action units will start "terminating" key radicals located here. I suspect its already begun, last year a pakistani nuclear specialist was gunned down in a local college's parking lot - motive and suspects are unknown...
I work in a financial services corporation that reports to FINTRAC, the regulatory body charged with ensuring that Canadian institutions aren't being used by criminals and terrorists to launder money.
What this item suggests to me is that more of the usual suspects are hoping Canada's laws and regulations are less rigorous than elsewhere, and not that Canada is negligent.
That's not to say Canada is fully cognizant of what's going on out there. I'm only saying that there have been more attempts at making suspect transactions and they have been duly reported.
Hugh
Everyone should read your comment many times and each time analyze it carefully. They would find there is nothing complicated about it. I would like to add a comment;
After Marc Lepine did his dastardly deed, the politicians in government jumped on the gun control issue saying - “There are too many guns out there - Guns are too easy to get - Guns are responsible - Get the guns off the street - We are going to be the big heroes and make Canada safe and take the guns away - The United States has a high crime rate because of guns - etc. etc.
So what is the result of all this grand idea? The government and law enforcement will protect the citizens? Are they doing it? If they don’t, how is the citizens supposed to protect themselves and their country?
newtopia, I just cannot buy the argument that the U.S. gov't has assassins working in Canada.
Hugh: Nice comment and one I agree with (I'm Canadian - former Montrealer). Quebec will accept anyone as an immigrant - the only qualification being French speaking and being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. If this pisses off the Anglos - so much the better from the Quebecois perspective. Quite frankly, I hope they do separate although it will be messy. The separatists will be in for a surprise when the Cree vote to take northern Quebec with them to Canada.
Regarding Marc Lepine, I think the liberal left used this massacre in an attempt promote gun ownership restrictions and anything else would be a distraction.
After Marc Lepine did his dastardly deed, the politicians in government jumped on the gun control issue saying - “There are too many guns out there - Guns are too easy to get - Guns are responsible - Get the guns off the street - We are going to be the big heroes and make Canada safe and take the guns away - The United States has a high crime rate because of guns - etc. etc.
Posted by: THSIMJ at November 5, 2004 10:55 AM
Follow the money and you will find mulsum money behind this and ck the people who commit the crimes see if they are mulsum and they are behind the drugs??
Stand up aginst them taking your guns or you are lost get speakers who know the facts to present to the people look at England and the Aussis who bought the lie and now their crime rate is out of control!!
one good speaker is a guy named Lott and he has some books on the issue!!
November 5, 2004
Fire works in Denmark?
700 arrested under immigration charges before the Nov 2nd election ? GOOD JOB GUYS!!
A paki who jumped the border at Mexico was one! He was arrested in San Diego his new job was driving a fuel tanker and had axis to ports? Come on People watch who you hire?? GOOD JOB immigration control!!!
New jobs added in October 337,000!!
Package found on the underground in England? Underground shut down?
France has been told that just because they didn’t support the war in Iraq that would not stop a Islamic terrorist on them??
France says they didn’t snub Iraq because they would miss the Interim Prime Minister?? YEA RIGHT!!
Crime rise in Japan because of mulsums??
Japan to take tougher measures!!
New anthrax vac!!
Locos invasion in Africa? UN worried? Not able to control? Is this not arab land they stole? The Mulsums killed the Christians and now one of the pelages has come to the land that feeds them? Yes we have FREED the Iraqi People the others[arabs] are worried because the Iraqis will have control the land they own is rich in farm land!! And when you control the Food you control the real power!! And we all know that the Arab countries supported saddam[YELLOW COWARD FOUND IN A HOLE DON’T SHOOT I’M A COWARD] and now are sending support to the Islamic Terrorist to kill the Iraqi People? Somehow I don’t think the Iraqi People will be so forgiving??
Disney to strike??
Sudan happy about President Bush reelection??
Former President Carter wants to represent the USA @ Arafat funeral?? Why didn’t he go to the Funeral to someone who is a friend like the King of the UAE??
We should send no one he was the godfather of the Terrorist around the world!!!
Does any one have the #s of murders in all of England over the last year?? Our hearts are with those who lost love ones in Iraq but this fight is better fought over there?? And for the nutters if the war in Kosovo was worth the fight because of the mass graves? What about the 300,000 mass graves in Iraq?? Again silence??
Drink juice boxes caught coming from Colombia was discovered to have liq. Heroin? On their way to the USA WOULD HAVE KILLED THE CHILDREN WHO WOULD HAVE DRUNK THEM?? GOOD WORK GUYS!!
A DC air national guard during a night training mission shoots up a N,J. school? OOPS guess they should have voted for Bush??
The Media just don’t get it!! They keep saying the exit polls about the moral issue but that all admit the exit polls were so wrong? [not the Polish People]
MSM had to wake up to find the People don’t care what they think!! OH! MY!
Breadwinner you are right God has not forgotten the Jews look at the 67 war??
Look at how he sent the USA in WW2 and They saved many enough to help rebuild Israel?? And they have given to medicine and science to help save mankind!!
Remember God didn’t tell the people to lie down and not fight the Evil!! And neither did Jesus look up in Romans for all you who say you can’t protect yourselves??
Jesus was sent to bring the rest of the world to the laws of the torah to bring the savage people of the world to peace!!
Yes now we are saving the Iraqi People there is a verse in the qu ran 5:32 which says” those who kill the Jews without cause will be as if the KILL ALL MANKIND” and those who save a life are as if they save ALL MANKIND”
Remember that the Arabs [Iran] Islamic Terrorist say the USA is run by Jews so we must die well they bring a Curse beyond all curses upon their people!!
And those who follow them??
Just look at 30,000 dead in Iran’s Earthquake[or is it 40,000] and let’s look at the Earthquake in North Korea dead over 30,000?? Locus in Africa land they have killed for the farm land?
Gary for you all those palis at duke
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/4/141936.shtml
E. Coli Cases Confirmed in N.C.
NewsMax Wires
Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004
RALEIGH, N.C. -- At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria, and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo at last month's state fair, authorities said.
The Goat people??
GOOD WORK in Catching the 700 million that is out of the hands of Islamic Terrorist
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Destory the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
PS
We need to always think mulsum threat until ruled out and Bob even the small stuff!!
To DC Watson...
Yes those CAIR scum are up here but they are called CAN CAIR...
As an Albertan I can't tell you how ashamed I am of being a Canadian......our country is a sham...
And it is only a matter of time that Muslims either attack and kill us on our own soil or attack a America from Canada!!
We are just begging to be invaded!!
Hopefully by America.....let Quebec go on there own!!
Devon in Calgary
In all this debate the term "multi-cultural" is bandied about as if it is, per se, a bad thing. I want to make an assertion:
America is the most multi cultural society on Earth.
Every race and religion on the planet has a place in the USA. This is real multi culturalism, a concept so deeply ingrained in the American nation and consciousness that it is taken for granted. No need to go on and on about it, as if it is an aberration from the norm. And all of this is possible because it lives and breathes under the rubric of the American constitution and laws. That is the great umbrella that allows this to happen, that holds the idea of freedom as sacrosanct, including THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION (Which Islam actively opposes). That tolerance is deeply engraved on the soul of the USA.
The idea of multi culturalism has been hijacked and twisted by people who are ideologues and either refuse to see, or actively assent to, a religious creed that despises all the values of tolerance and plurality and equality that they claim to hold as their core belief. That is what is happening in the world today.
Are Americans threatened by Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism or Sikhism? Are Chinese migrants threatening to bring violence to the world if people do not bow down before the religion of Confucious?
What leftist people squeal about is that a fascistic creed that is UTTERLY OPPOSED TO EVERYTHING THE USA HOLDS DEAR...freedom of worship, tolerance, gender equality and so on, is feeling the heat of the United States of America's determination to fight this intolerance. How can a pluralistic society fluorish in a repressive, fascistic land? Taking Islamo Fascists to task is a PROTECTION of pluralism and multi culturalism, in the same way that attacking the KKK is a protection of the freedoms enshrined in the American COnstitution. It exposes the left's concern for plurality as a charade. The roots of Marxist and fascistic thought are close.
Final point:
Do a comparative study of The American Constitution and the Koran and think upon which is the more righteous and spiritual document, if spirituality involves the magnanimity of tolerance and the text that enforces the circumstances that can allow peace and freedom and the individual soul to fluorish and find fulfillment. And ask yourself under which system humanity would prefer to live under.
Then be strong in alerting the world to the dangers posed by the ideology of Islamo Fascism.
Oh crap! Does this mean we have to invade Canada!?
:)
f.g.
So.. muslims are using Canada to launder funds. Surprise!!
Gee.. Let's see. They were doing the same thing in America before efforts were put forth to start to shut them down. Same thing in Germany, England, France, to name a few, who have since begun to shutdown their money laundering activities and dry up terrorist funding.
Now Canada suddenly realizes that muslims are laundering money in their country? Amazing! Isn't it stunning the views one gets and what one now is able to see once they've pulled their head out of their arse and looked around?
koffie said we can't hit fullage to save the people there from the MONSTERS ISLAMIC TERRORIST WHO CUT PEOPLES HEADS OF WITH THEIR HANDS TIED BEHIND THEIR BACKS???
koffie is a Islamic Terrorist supporter!!!
http://www.beecy.net/frank/
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Destory the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen
PS
the Map of the USA is Red we aint afraid!! Just look at the Red Bull that is what America is made of!!
Mulsum behind the tire slashing of the GOPs cars on Election day??
his father ran as a democorat?
seams New Mexioco for Bush
seams that Iowa for Bush
so he Picked up 2 states from 2000!!!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH,WISDOM,SIGHT ANS COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTORY TO DESTORY THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE EYES OF THE WORLD TO THEIR THREAT AMEN
Canada - it's not just for hockey anymore.
Both Canada and Mexico are about to understand how much the people's of the mideast hate.
back in 2001 after 9-11 over one million mexicans had a party in mexico city and showed the hate of mexico for the USA, but soon the muslims will show what hate is, and can I ask ONE thing, why are our borders still opened and why is our so called government setting up a new political Amnesty and for who? Mexican and Jihad Muslims?
WHO is doing what to who? The Murder Of Van Gogh should be opening eyes but it is not, sad fact 2004.
DCwatson:
Yes CAIR has a Canadian wing of these weasels and slimeballs,check out this article on their demand for Sharia Law in Canada for Muslims.
Also,review the archieves for the "Media Watch"
item on the menu,seems that while all those beheadings were going on in Iraq,CAIR was obsessed with a "hate crime" in Hamilton Ontario
where a building now used as a Mosque was hit with a raw egg twice in about three weeks during the school break for summer.
CAIR Canada joined the groups of Muslims that now defend a Dr.Muhammed Elmasry that statemed on public Tv that all Israelis over 18 are valid targets for murder by suicide bombers.
http://www.caircan.ca/ann_more.php?id=1162_0_9_0_C
Here's Elmasry's website to read his pathetic
weaseling out of taking the blame for his remarks,they range from "Only reflecting the opinion of most Palestinians" to "The host of the show for inviting him there and not controling
the free-speech which caused the racist comment".
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.org/
It's obviuos now that Muslims will overlook violence and murder by their brothers as some king of Islamic goal for global domination.
Just another point about terrorism raising money and washing it through Canada.
When a Syria came to Canada him claimed he feared for his life and wanted to live in peace
within Canada's multicultural society.
Well guess what,this Syrian took his wife and kids on a tour of the Middle East and when he
returned to Canada without his wife and kids Via New York,U.S. Security forces didn't accept his
illogical story along with the smug attitude of
"catch me if you can" while being a traveler on a Canadian passport.
Since he was still holding a Syrian citizenship,
the rules state that people being removed from American soil will be sent to their Country of origin. He admitted to a very pleasent trip to Jordan but was then transported to Syria,which
was where he now claims all the torture he suffered in jail took place.
While the Canadian Government is ignoring the plight of a non-Muslim Canadian that they know was tortured for about three years while in a Saudi jail,they are financing an inquiry for this Syrian Muslim that alleged Syria abused him after being deported from the USA.
The Syrian is on welfare and has a taxpayer funded lawyer that launched a 400 Million dollar
Lawsuit against Canadians for his stress and mental anguish resulting for deportation.
Yes the whole story stinks,but what better way for terrorists to fund terror in Canada by getting money from lawsuits to avoid being connected to Saudi support through money transfers. 400 Million dollars will buy a pretty big terror training camp in a remote area in the North or out in British Columbia like the "Squamish-5" did to carry out their bombing of the Litton plant in Toront with a truck-bomb
like Timothy McViegh used.
Sikh terrorist in B.C. used Canada to put bombs on airplanes the blew up and kill almost 400 people of which 240 were Canadian. Muslims slaughtered Canadians on 9/11 and now a Muslim was arrested with a cache or weapons and a rocket-launcher in a Toronto home.
The Federal Liberals actually believe there is no threat to Canada because we have no Military and we're "Nice" people,well so were the infidels beheaded in Iraq and Van Gogh murdered in the street recently. Terrorist exploit democracies and love the concept of them being innocent until a court trial proves they're guilty,that's one reason for Muslim support for mass murderers and jihadists,they might end up being part of a Zionist plot so lets not assume the person screaming "Allah a akbar" while hacking a head off is a "True" Muslim or ewen a Muslim period.
Here is a report from Canandian Intelligence on terrorist activities in Canada:
www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/miscdocs/200001_e.html
PERSPECTIVES
a CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE publication
Report # 2000/01
TRENDS IN TERRORISM
December 18, 1999
This report came out 2 years before 9-11 and they still ignore the threat to Canada
PERSPECTIVES
a CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE publication
Report # 2000/01
TRENDS IN TERRORISM
December 18, 1999
This paper uses open sources to examine any topic with the potential to cause threats to public or national security
INTRODUCTION
1. The 22nd of July, 1999, may have marked the thirty-first anniversary of modern international terrorism. On that date in 1968, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked an El Al Boeing 707, en route from Rome to Tel Aviv, carrying ten crew and 38 passengers. The aircraft was flown to Algiers’ Dar al-Bayda Airport, where lengthy negotiations were undertaken for the eventual release of passengers, crew, aircraft and hijackers. The incident is widely regarded as a principal initiator of the deadly continuum of international terrorist attacks which have exerted significant political influence during the past three decades.
2. An early and ongoing victim of terrorism, the commercial airlines industry has been a focus of domestic and international incidents. Initially, attacks against aircraft demonstrated publicity value, often achieved their aim, and proved attractive to state sponsors. The industry responded in a positive and responsible manner by implementing security improvements and fostering international protective cooperation. Hijacking and armed attacks occur less frequently in today’s world—a measure of improved defensive awareness—although still posing a risk in locations where preventive measures are not stringently observed. A greater danger today lies in the sabotage or bombing of commercial aircraft, a menace which will only diminish in the face of constantly improving security precautions.
3. The changing threat to the airlines industry underscores the dynamic nature of terrorism. Motivations, targeting, strategy, tactics—even logistics—continue to evolve, in keeping with efforts on the part of security agencies to meet the challenges and to stay ahead of the dangers. Terrorist atrocities in Algeria, characterized by the horrific slaughter of women and children; bombs hidden aboard a train in Pakistan which claimed 23 lives and injured 75 others; and the deaths of more than 260 persons as the result of truck-bomb explosions at the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, are reminders that terrorists retain the determination and ability to strike ruthlessly at a broad range of targets in many locations.
4. A multifaceted phenomenon, terrorism demands extraordinary domestic and international collaboration to combat the hazards it presents. Over the past 10 years, improved intergovernmental cooperation has contributed to a notable drop in the number of international terrorist incidents.1 Despite the reduction in incidents, terrorist violence in many parts of the world will continue to promote an uncertain security environment, and will remain an ongoing threat to international and domestic stability and to the lives and livelihood of hundreds of innocents.
DISCUSSION
5. Motivation. Originally reflecting a largely left-wing ideological foundation, today’s terrorists are increasingly likely to be motivated by campaigns of ethnic nationalism or religious extremism. Often the two go hand in hand, such as the aspirations of Sikh militants for an independent state of Khalistan or the fundamentalist Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), which seeks to establish an Islamic state in Egypt.
6. Religious Extremism. Islamic extremists literally pose the largest danger in terms of religious terrorism. In part an outcome of magnitude of numbers and Islam’s global reach, it is also because, unlike the cohesive grouping of the past, many militant Islamists are individuals who do not owe allegiance to any particular organization, making identification and trace checks very difficult. Sunni terrorists, such as Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the New York Trade Center bombing, tend to be representative of this trend, whereas Shi’a terrorists continue to pursue their goals in a more collective fashion, obtaining direction and support from Iran. Although the Sunni-Shi’a schism remains, some cooperation between members of the two branches of Islam has been evident.
7. Muslim terrorists are often Mujahadeen, devoted to Islam and committed to Jihad, (“Holy War”), possessing combat experience of such locations as Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya. Well-schooled in handling weapons, explosives and communications equipment, they know the value of the Internet, fax machines, cellular telephones and encryption. Increasingly sophisticated and willing travellers, they have access to excellent false documentation and international contacts, and can blend easily into a local émigré community, where they can plan and execute attacks without being readily identified. It is their nebulous, unstructured characteristics, combined with zealous dedication, which contribute in large measure to the menace they present. Osama bin Laden is one such extraordinary example, made several times more dangerous by virtue of his immense wealth, personal capabilities, and charisma.
8. Extremist militants of other faiths also have an involvement in terrorist violence and must not be ignored. Christian religious groups, such as the Aryan Nations, are active in North America, and are becoming more closely associated with the Militia Movement. The Jewish Defence League maintains a presence in North America as well, but it is in Israel and the Occupied Territories where the combination of nationalism and religious fervour manifests itself in acts of Jewish terrorism.
9. Nationalism. Ethnic nationalism continues to be a significant motivational factor in a number of terrorism campaigns, some of which are long-standing (Northern Ireland, Basques, Palestinians, Kurds) and others which are relatively recent (Uighers, Timorese, Achenese). Individually or in combinations, nationalism-separatism-irridentism have demonstrated a notable resurgence since the collapse of the former Soviet Union (FSU); several states currently experiencing politically motivated violence were previously members of the FSU or communist entities. Ideology does play a role in some nationalist movements, but the more usual accompaniment is religious fundamentalism. Strong religious beliefs and nationalist-separatist goals represent a particularly effective motivational combination.
10. Ideology. The role of ideology has not been completely overtaken by the influence of religion. A number of left-wing movements continue to exist, such as the Turkish Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party - Front (DHKP-C), the Peruvian Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), and the Naxalites of India. Animal-Rights supporters and Environmentalists—the Issue Groups—tend to be found on the left of the political spectrum, as well. Right-wing motivation is much more prevalent, however. Racist groups, typified by the Ku Klux Klan, the UK’s Combat- 18 (C-18) and various skinhead aggregations (the latter especially prevalent in Germany) form the core of the right-wing movement. Many of the Christian extremist movements are strongly right-wing in nature, as are groups which form the Militia Movement in North America.
11. State sponsorship. State sponsorship of terrorism remains a significant concern. Support by state sponsors through funding, safe haven, weapons and logistics is important to the operation of many terrorist organizations. The US State Department continues to list the governments of Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and North Korea as state sponsors of terrorism. International cooperation against terrorism, however, in conjunction with political realities and economic difficulties, has been successful in reducing the global level of state sponsorship. Notwithstanding the positive gains, the curtailment of state support in some cases has induced terrorists to turn to purely criminal enterprises for fundraising purposes, including involvement with narcotics trafficking.
12. Targeting and Methodology. Improved international cooperation against terrorism and strengthened security for diplomatic and military facilities have prompted a shift in terrorist targeting and methodology:
* random attacks on tourists and the deliberate killing of foreign-aid and NGO workers are disturbing trends;
* incidents of kidnapping and hostage-taking have become frequent occurrences in South America and the former Soviet Union;
* terrorist attacks focused on economic infrastructures can be expected to continue, including those related to energy distribution, transportation, banking and tourism;
* hoaxes, particularly bomb threats, have been employed on occasion to seriously disrupt transportation and tourism, causing significant local impact;
* the Internet is becoming a resource more frequently used by terrorists as a means to access information, spread propaganda, raise funds, communicate, and plan operations; and
* the possibility of a terrorist threat involving government and commercial computer-driven applications is a growing concern.2
13. The gun and the bomb retain the lead as favoured methods of terrorist assault, as witnessed by the shooting death of former provincial governor Hakim Said in Pakistan and the grenade attack against an Israeli bus stop in Beersheba. Vehicle bombs have proven a particularly attractive medium for terrorists, in part because the trend in recent years has been toward high casualty, indiscriminate targeting, and in part because of ease of manufacture, delivery, capacity, and lethality, with instructions on the Internet and components widely available. Threats and incidents of suicide attacks have increased in some regions, such as the Middle East and Sri Lanka, and are likely to be repeated.
14. One of the first uses of a chemical nerve agent in a terrorist attack, by the Aum Shinri Kyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, has been widely viewed as the crossing of a threshold. It is a theory reinforced by evidence uncovered recently to the effect that Osama bin Laden is interested in chemical and biological weaponry. The Tokyo attack has evoked a number of serious concerns, among which are fears that:
* some terrorists may now consider public indifference to be such that a more spectacular incident involving a higher casualty rate is necessary to attract attention;
* the effectiveness of improved security measures may prompt terrorists to seek a different method of conducting an attack; and
* a group may have reached a stage of frustration and sense of impotence such that it will pursue any avenue in attempts to achieve its goal.
The approach of the Millennium is considered to raise the potential for independent action by individuals with extreme beliefs, especially those associated with cults, increasing the possible resort to a chemical, biological or nuclear radiation device.
15. The use of a nuclear weapon remains the least likely scenario, given current levels of security surrounding nuclear weapons and the undoubted reluctance of any state to support the use of such a weapon for terroristic purposes. The dispersal of a radioactive substance in a terrorist incident does remain a possibility. Nonetheless, despite the seemingly advantageous potential of nuclear, chemical or biological methodology, conventional weapons are still considered to be favoured by terrorists, principally because of familiarity and ease of use.
16. Future casualty rates associated with domestic and international terrorist incidents will vary. Generally more frequent, domestic incidents are usually the result of a shooting or bombing attack directed against security forces or specific civilian opponents; such incidents produce smaller numbers of casualties. Occasionally the numbers of casualties are higher, such as an incident aboard commercial transportation, or one involving a car-bomb or an explosive device placed in a crowded area, as was the case in the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. International incidents are characterized by large-scale casualties because the incidents, although less frequent, are designed to achieve maximum publicity and shock effect.
GLOBAL REVIEW
17. The United States will continue to be the major target of international terrorist activity. Despite Canada’s relatively high-profile military involvement in the former Yugoslavia and in the Gulf, Canada and Canadians remain fortunate in recently not having been targeted by terrorists. Canadians abroad, however, must recognize the risk of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and, because of physical similarities, of being mistaken for Americans.
18. Activities associated with the historic Northern Ireland peace agreement, signed in May 1998, at first made encouraging progress, but then encountered difficulties. Elections of the new, 108-seat power-sharing legislative assembly were completed, with David Trimble, a Protestant unionist, elected First-Minister, and Seamus Mallon, a Catholic nationalist, Deputy First- Minister. Contentious issues remain, including disarmament, but participants have indicated their determination to make the peace agreement a success.
19. Rogue elements such as the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), the Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA), and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) still pose a deadly security threat. The RIRA claimed responsibility for the 15 August 1998 car-bomb in Omagh, which claimed 29 lives and wounded 330, making it the worst single attack in Northern Ireland since 1969. However, INLA called a truce in late August and RIRA declared a complete cessation of military activity in September; both the major loyalist groups, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) announced a joint ceasefire in 1994. The CIRA remains the only group not to have indicated a cessation of hostilities.
20. Across the Channel in France, risks remain from the spillover of the Algerian strife. In an unfortunate example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a Montreal woman was one of four people killed and her husband one of dozens injured when a bomb believed planted by Algerian extremists exploded in December 1996 on the Paris Metro.
21. Although its ranks have been drastically thinned as a consequence of cooperative efforts between the Spanish and French security forces, the Basque separatist group ETA continues to pose a serious threat in Spain. Popular support for the terrorist group has waned, however, especially in the wake of a series of killings of municipal officials; ETA murdered three representatives of Partido Popular, Spain’s ruling party, during the first two months of 1998. A particularly brutal and horrific incident was the slaying of municipal councillor Alberto Jimenez Becerril and his wife as they returned from a dinner party in Seville.
22. ETA declared a ceasefire in mid-September 1998, but announced recently that the ceasefire would end in December, 1999. Earlier in the year, three small bomb attacks in Madrid were claimed by the October First Anti-Fascist Resistance Group (GRAPO), a radical Marxist group which had been inactive for several years.
23. In Germany, right-wing extremists, especially racially motivated elements, continue to foment disturbances and conduct arson attacks against immigrant workers and refugees.
24. The shadowy 17 November terrorist organization, which surfaces with attacks in Athens from time to time, continues to elude authorities. Anti-government, anti-NATO, anti-Turkish, and anti-American, the group has murdered a number of American diplomatic personnel and Greek officials over the past twenty years.
25. Despite the arrest of Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah “Apo” Ocalan, Turkish security forces remain concerned with an ongoing threat of terrorist violence from the PKK, as well as from several smaller left-wing groups such as the Communist DHKP-C. Bombings have occurred sporadically in Istanbul and Ankara, frequently intended to adversely influence the tourist trade.
26. Across the Mediterranean, in North Africa, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) continues its anti-regime campaign of bombings within major cities, especially Algiers, as well as conducting horrific attacks against villagers, often characterized by the slitting of throats or decapitation. Women and children are not spared in the attacks.
27. In Egypt, incidents involving security forces and domestic terrorists in the Upper Nile Valley occur intermittently—also partly designed to have an adverse impact on the tourist trade with the intent of damaging the Egyptian economy. As well, occasional attacks are directed toward Coptic Christians in an attempt to introduce a split between the two religious communities.
28. The threat and reality of terrorist attacks, as evidenced by the suicide bombings in Jerusalem, continue in Israel and the Occupied Territories and are conducted by groups such as Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad that oppose the peace proposals. Unless some remarkable progress is achieved in the peace process, the situation is unlikely to change for the better.
29. Ongoing factional rivalry between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim groups is characteristic of terrorist incidents in Pakistan, most of which feature drive-by shootings conducted from the back of motorcycles. The totals, however, are substantively down from last year. Associated from a regional perspective, the activities of Osama bin Laden, emanating from Afghanistan, threaten Western (principally US) individuals and interests throughout the Sub-Continent, the Middle East, and Africa. He will continue his efforts to strike Western targets wherever and whenever opportunity permits.
30. Several recent bombing incidents aboard buses and trains in India suggest an attempt to revive the spectre of Sikh terrorism, while others are related to the ongoing separatist-inspired strife in Kashmir or that of the Bodo tribes in Assam.
31. Evidence of Uigher separatist aspirations and unrest surfaced in Western China, with at least three bomb explosions on buses in Xinjiang and Beijing which reportedly killed nine people and injured eight others.
32. Overall, extremist unrest in Latin America has lessened markedly. The majority of incidents are confined to Colombia and Peru. A high risk exists in Colombia associated with the kidnapping of Westerners, especially businessmen. In Peru, both the Tupac Amaru and the Shining Path retain their highly dangerous status, despite extraordinary successes by the security forces such as the storming of the Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Lima to free the hostages held by the MRTA.
NORTH AMERICAN INTERESTS
33. Like other democratic nations in the developed world, Canada is inherently vulnerable to acts of terrorism. Incidents associated with conflicts abroad and transferred to the Canadian environment are termed homeland issues, and underlie the major concerns about terrorism affecting Canada today.
34. For a number of reasons, Canada is an attractive venue for terrorists. Long borders and coastlines offer many points of entry which can facilitate movement to and from various sites around the world, particularly the United States. As a wealthy industrial society, Canada is an excellent location in which to raise money in the name of causes abroad. The nation accepts large numbers of immigrants and refugees, and consequently has significant émigré communities which can be a source of haven and support.
35. Many of the world’s terrorist groups have a presence in Canada, where they engage in a variety of activities in support of terrorism, including:
* logistical support for offshore terrorism through efforts to obtain weapons and equipment to be shipped abroad, such as electrical detonators for explosives, or remote-control devices that can be adapted for use in the remote detonation of bombs. In one case, a Canadian was involved in an attempt to purchase a Stinger missile for PIRA;
* attempts to establish an operational support base in Canada, to enable groups to send in hit teams for attacks on targets of opportunity;
* fundraising, advocacy, propaganda. For example, not long ago members of the Kurdish PKK tried to enter Canada illegally to carry out a leadership, propaganda and fundraising role;
* intimidation and manipulation of Canadian citizens in émigré communities to support activities for homeland issues;
* a safe haven for terrorists. The recent case of the Saudi Arabian, Hani al-Sayegh, implicated in the Al Khobar bombing, provides one example of this trend;
* use of Canada as a base to arrange and direct terrorist activities in other countries. This is a particular problem with some members of Sikh terrorist groups whose leaders continue to endeavour to use Canada as their headquarters; and
* raising money through illegal activities. Tamil Tiger supporters have been accused of raising money through intimidation and the manufacture and sale of false passports and documentation.
36. Authorities have been reasonably successful in thwarting the growth of right-wing extremism across the North American continent, but the activities of some groups continue to pose a substantial threat. The Militia Movement, for example, while not established in Canada, has endeavoured to expand northward—a cache of weapons and equipment belonging to an American group was discovered in British Columbia.
37. The extreme right—the racist skinheads and neo-Nazis—comprises a number of different factions without a central leadership, which in itself contributes to their unpredictability. Overall, the security concerns stem not so much from their numbers as from the few unpredictable ones willing to commit extreme acts of violence for their cause. Use of the Internet facilitates communication, coordination and recruiting, and both individuals and groups are beginning to become aware of the benefits of encrypting their messages.
38. Aligned in somewhat the same fashion, but with a rather more left-wing approach, are the Single Issue extremists who include environmentalists and animal-rights groups. Although a small element in Canada, they can be dangerous and destructive. Among their activities have been:
* tree-spiking, equipment damage, and the spraying of noxious substances in public buildings in attempts to forestall logging operations; and
* the mailing of pipe bombs and letters containing razor blades, allegedly tainted with poisonous substances, to scientists, taxidermists and hunting outfitters, as well as the extremely costly release of furbearing animals from commercial premises and threats of poisoned turkeys in supermarkets during major holidays, all in support of the animal-rights movement.
Close links exist among environmentalists and animal-rights extremists around the world. The movements use the Internet for communication and publicity, as well as publishing newsletters and handbooks which contain instructions on how to conduct civil disobedience, vandalism and sabotage, (“ecotage”, as it is known to environmentalists), some of which is extremely dangerous.
CONCLUSION
39. The foregoing reasons, alone, require that Canada remain alert to, and cognizant of, the threat of terrorism both from the domestic and the global perspective. The downward trend in the number of international incidents of terrorism as noted in recent years has resulted, in part, from the combination of:
* much improved international cooperation to combat terrorism, such as the sharing of intelligence;
* a decrease in the level of state sponsorship;
* improved security arrangements in some countries; and,
* positive changes within a number of political and economic climates.
However, an optimistic long-term projection should not be entertained—the utility and attraction of terrorism as a political and foreign policy tool, as well other issues such as irrational behaviour on the part of some individuals, cultural factors, and the desire for revenge could bring about a renewal of attacks. The influence of the Millennium and Y2K-related events may also contribute to an increase in the frequency and nature of terrorist attacks, especially in Western countries with highly sophisticated infrastructures.
40. A significant portion of Canada’s response to the threat of terrorism has been to foster, and to participate in, international cooperative efforts. Canada has hosted and attended many conferences devoted to the problem of terrorism: the Halifax G-7, the Ottawa ministerial meeting, the extraordinary Sharm el-Sheikh Heads of Government meeting, as well as others in Lima, the Philippines, Tokyo, Paris, and recently, Denver, Colorado. Bilateral and multilateral cooperation is growing rapidly among our respective security agencies.
41. International cooperation is one important avenue to be followed in the battle against terrorism. The dynamic nature of the phenomenon, and the increasing technical and practical experience of those who embrace the use of political violence, however, demand a broad and sophisticated response on the part of counterterrorism forces. The role of intelligence is a major factor in combatting terrorism and one which is beginning to produce impressive results. Increased collaboration within the intelligence community is an outcome of bilateral and multilateral arrangements. A fostering of such mutually beneficial activities is an effective means of responding to the diverse threats posed by terrorism.
42. Canada has a history of spillover effects from conflicts based in other countries—the “homeland issue” influence. Research indicates that ethnopolitical violence remains at historically high levels. Although the numbers of international terrorist incidents were down in 1997/98, they can rise again without warning in any given year. Incidents of domestic terrorism will remain at high levels as well. Canadians must remain alert to these indicators, continuing to encourage efforts to combat terrorism both internationally and domestically, and taking precautions when working or travelling abroad.
Annex I
Terrorist Activities
Motivation
Agents of Violence
Activities
Remarks
back in 2001 after 9-11 over one million mexicans had a party in mexico city and showed the hate of mexico for the USA, but soon the muslims will show what hate is, and can I ask ONE thing, why are our borders still opened
Posted by: Fred Dawes at November 5, 2004 02:04 PM
Trafacant is trying to do something and the democrats keep stopping him and a few repbs are on that Train Ride??
Thing to do is watch the border states and report what you find and when the people see the danger them will make demands!!
Write and call your congressmen!!
They make the laws!!
Just last mo they aressted 60 who were useing drug mules trying to bring in mac.guns and graned launchers??
Yea Better get on them Democrats who don't ask and don't tell??
and what about your local polictians who do nothing they are after illegal and the locol police have told the Feds they would not help to stop the Flow??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory[FREEDOM] to Destory the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who SUPPORT them OPEN the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
Hugh - Nice post. I would add to your comment that as Canada is a "loose federation" with a small military, it would be easier to set up an Islamic state than would be the case in the U.S.
HOWEVER, poised on the U.S.- Canada border are thousands in Michigan and along the eastern U.S.-Canada border that could easily join with them. Why else, then, has this area become a magnet for Muslims?
Both Canada and the U.S. will have an enormous problem if the situation progresses so that Muslims become a majority in this area. History bears out this observation.
Albertanator, there's no reason to be ashamed of being Canadian. Canada is a beautiful country with many great people. The problem lies in the liberal Government there that has allowed far too much immigration of the Muslims.
The world knows that they're a problem. The never cease to amaze us with their lies, cheating, sneaking, double standards, and utter arrogance as they infest into our lands.
They hide behind racial lines, although they're too lazy to distinquish between race and religion (most likely because they feel that their Islamic cult is race, religion and nationality combined into one ball of shit).
Canadians would be best served (just a suggestion) to get rid of their lame Government and get someone in there with balls enough to send the Muslims packing.
Centuries of tradition are being questioned by immigrants.......F-them
Canada - it's not just for hockey anymore.
Posted by: Rottweiller at November 5, 2004 01:04 PM
LOL
Coupled with Sharia law, I think it would be easier for Canada to become muslim, thereby posing a real threat to the US.
ala sux....awesome name....I know. Muslims are obsessed with this "hate crime" garbage here in the states too. They are very forgetful. 9-11-01, now there was a hate crime, one we don't forget.
Please don't think badly of me, as most of you know how peaceful I am....But someone in an earlier post had mentioned something about assassins. For the life of me, I simply can't bring myself to oppose an idea like that.
Canada just need to get rid of their loonie left government. As a New Zealander, we are in the same boat here with Helen Clarke's New Labour lot.
Their idea is NOT to do anything to upset Muslims and you'll be okay. How we would cope with a terrorist attack doesn't bear thinking about - our defense forces are pitable and rundown. Our population are sports mad with scant interest in politics which is reflected in dearth of world news.Ones I've spoken to naively suppose that a few farmers with guns [in true Kiwi DIY style] could repel any invaders...Am going to vote myself
for Winston Peters, one of the few savvy Politicians who see the threat of Muslim Fundamentalists for what it is - violence and death in these sleepy pleasant Islands. Our big, strong neighbour Australia is worried [with good reason] that Terrorists will use N.Z. as the Backdoor...There's a lot of good people here as there is in Canada, so don't knock us for our idiot politicians, folks, but support us in getting rid of them.
DCWatson:
By all means feel free to put my id on a tee-shirt,my idea for it came when I thought of menu's that have the Ala-carte items just
after a terrorist bombing where I shook my head and realized Allah sucks bigtime.
the phrase ala sux would hardly force a jury trial for a hate-crime since any Judge in America would see it's phonetics and in turn open the door to banning words and certain letters.
But Canada's hate-laws are so obsurdly applied
that I feared arrest or even attacks for wearing a tee-shirt with it. CAIR denounced the attacks
on Jewish Canadians and the swastka's sprayed on the front doors of homes and graveyard headstones
as senseless acts of vandalism,but declares any
perceived act against Muslims as a "hate crime"
to be persued by the Police.
Muslims actually think we can't see through their subtle antisemitism that's part of the usual rants about Israel,the latest generation
is smarter and know the code-word "Israel" when
spewing hatred towards Jews without worrying
about being charged for a hate-crime.
How ironic for Muslims to claim they are a race protected by hate-laws and yet attack Jews
by claiming their Israeli citizens and therefor a nationality not protected from hate-speech and violence for religious beliefs.
hey here's an idea
print 'ala sux' and then below print
NO HIS LAMB
KNOW PEACE
Ala-sux, that is a mighty nice play on words.
Catherine-
I may be wrong on this, but isn't Traficant still in jail?
To Catherine and Sue B; Ladies do you have any plans for 2008? Ever thought of running for President?
Your knowledge enthralls me to no end and if ever either one of you would need a pool boy, or house boy please think of me as I would like to be surrounded by dilligent people.
The money laundering and the harboring of huge amounts of US currency must be hurting us in some way and if we do not fight this front as well we will be wiped out in the wallet.
YKWH AKBAR
Hugh:
About Marc Lepine's religious orientation... ...what leads you to conclude that this was deliberately concealed? He went on his rampage, what, 10+ years ago, when far, far less was understood about Islamists and what malevolent scum they are.
Marc Lepine's hatred for non-Muslims carries
on,Muslims at Concordia University which is also in the area of Montreal's school that Lepine
acted out his rage,have used terroristic tactics to deny free speech on the campus when it doesn't suit their version of the truth in the middle east.
The current threat of another riot at Concordia( this from a statement by the Palestinian student body that they can't be blamed if they're provoked to riot and again smash windows and hurl death threats at Jews if Concordia allows a Jewish Israeli to speak on campus) only shows the long term plan by Islamists to spread their cancer in the schools and use terror to force submission to Allah.
Notice how the people that support the killing of Van Gogh also support the riots in Montreal
because Muslims were the victims and had no choice but to follow the Quran and defend Islam.
It was the Universities fault for supporting free speech to the point that a Jew was allowed to have an opinion that offended Muslims and Allah.It was Van Gogh's fault for offending Muslims and Islam,it's the fault of females that brings on the beatings and public killing for offend Allah and the Quran,9/11 was the fault of taxpayers in America for sending aid to Israel
which offended Allah and Muslim.
Do you see the pattern here,Adam was the original "Slimeball" and his style of shifting the blame to God for giving him Eve is still practised by Muslims. Denial and paranoia is amazing when it come to Islam,Muslims use it to
believe everyones out to get them,and then use it to say islam had nothing to do with a terrorist act performed by a Muslim.
No newspaper story that I recall mentioned anything but the name "Marc Lepine." It is true that his suicide note was a rant against the unfair -- i.e. privileged, as he saw it -- of women. But he was born Gharbi, and his childhood was spent being roughly treated by his Algerian father, and seeing his mother mistreated -- mistreated as a Muslim wife (she was, incidentally, a former nun), and Muslim misogyny was a theme in Marc Lepine -- Mr. Gharbi's -- life.
It was not a vast conspiracy, but one does wonder why the fact of his background was concealed. Son of Sam was thoroughly investigated, and the fact that he was adopted, and questions surrounding his birth-parents and his adoptive-parents, were certainly well-known. Why not a hint that Marc Lepine had another name, was raised in a particular fashion, and perhaps even a hint about Muslim treatment of women, with one of those women being his mother, would have helped people in Montreal begin to ponder what Islam is all about. Who knows? It might have prevented a few innocent Canadian girls from being lured into marriage with Muslim men, either those who marry for the purposes of sex while students, and then when they return home, abandon these temporary wives, or marry them in order to remain in the West (there are guides for Muslims, as to how best to lure Western women into these marriages -- and they are sanctioned, for the good of the Believer, and the greater good of swelling the ranks of Believers in the Infidel lands).
This scurrying away from identifying Muslims as Muslims, this hesitancy about relating certain behavior to the teachings of Islam, can even be seen in how the New York Times editorial today discussed the killing of Theo van Gogh, and in its last sentence said it was important "for "Dutch political leaders" to find ways to "reverse this trend of politidcally motivated violence." Politically motivated violence? Oh, was this a voter, unhappy with the last Dutch elections? Did Theo van Gogh have a different political stance from the man who murdered him -- you know, on taxes, and free trade, and proportional representation, and things like that? You know he didn't.
Why didn't the Times call it "religiously-motivated violence" and link it to the similarly motivated violence all over the globe? Why?
And why, more than a decade ago, didn't the thousands of articles written about the greatest mass murderer in Canadian history even so much as hint at his Muslim background, and the role that just might have played, in his subsequent attitudes toward women?
Multi-Culturalism is not the boogeyman that needs to be eliminated. Knowledge of other cultures can be a truley enriching thing. Even Arab culture has some positive things. Food, Art, Algebra etc.. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. But multiculturalism that eliminates objective analysis is something to worry about. Islam works harder than any other mass cultural phenomenon that I know.
What's with the fact that any argument against a tenet of Islam that is not based on Arabic is invalid?? I resent the fact that these people think that other languages are incapable of transmitting the subtlety of thought to truly understand. Bull.
Where are the islamic comedians making fun of Islam?? Where is the Islamic equivilent of 'The Life of Brian' ?? The fact that there is none should be a red flag.
Where is the long list of brilliant thought after algebra?? You know a culture should be able to cause people to want to go into it for positive reasons. If Islam could show me more positive brilliance and less fear, revenge, and violence I would be more likely to consider it as a positive contributor to culture.
I love multiculturalism, but I abhor the free ride that some aspects of culture get because people are afraid to analyze and come down with an opinion based on the true fruits of a culture.
When people have negative opinions about a culture isn't racism if these opinions are based on personal consideration. Using the racism card to squelch analysis is a bad thing and should be recognized
Keep Multiculturalism, but eliminate the intimidation that prevents people from critically analyzing a culture.
The ritual slaughter of Theo van Gogh IS creating a change of attitudes in the minds of the public here, even if not reflected in our media and the spewings from our elected clowns.
The public, by and large have been inculcated with varying degrees of guilt and self-blame through years of pc bs, to see themselves as responsible for most things that are wrong in the world because we're all euro-centric, imperialist colonialist racist blah blah blah ist ist ist ad nauseum.
But when they see a clearly religious ritual slaughter carried out on the streets of easy-going, fun-loving, peaceable tolerant little Holland, something just doesn't seem right somehow, the endless waffle about "religion of peace" US Imperialism, British Empire, "poor oppressed palestinians" just doesn't apply here, does it?
Somehow the screaming leftist rants of "it's all our fault, we're so intolerant, we don't understand these poor people" really can't explain this kind of thing away, can it?
So the more canadians, or any others go out of their way to be touchy-feely, and accommodating, and understanding and pleasing to the muslim populations they love so much, the greater the shock will be when despite all their distancing themselves from everything the US and Britain and Israel represent to them, some poor bastard meets a similar fate on their pc streets because he said something muslims didn't like.
And what will the bent over backwards as far as possible dhimmis do then?
Sacirse, you are so right. I think that the west does have a lot of faults and a lot to answer for. But, haveing said that, I wonder why so many people are so adept at ferreting out any past grievance western culture has ever been responsible for, but are so completely useless in analyzing any fault with Islam. Why does Islam get a free pass?
There needs to be some seriously wicked satire on Islam that will expose them for what they are and cause them to be the butt of the joke. Someone needs to take up the flame of Theo Van Gogh (PBUH)
I know all the Americans on this site are switched on to how dhimmified "Canadistan" has become, but seriously, you really ought to be wary of the place.
Isn't their anyway you can alert your government about concerns for security, or anyone here who is has a job within the political circle???
The Canadian government sure as beeswax aren't going to alert them.