Why didn't Amiruddin contact authorities? Why are we only hearing about this now, while simultaneously Canadian Muslim leaders are blaming authorities for not telling them about the plot? "Teacher witnessed transformation of some bomb-plot suspects," from CBC News, with thanks to LGF:
A Muslim religious leader in Toronto who knows some of those charged in the suspected bomb plot says the young men underwent rapid transformations from normal Canadian teenagers to radicalized introverts.Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin got to know Saad Khalid, 19, and some of the other alleged conspirators at a local mosque.
Khalid was arrested last Friday at a warehouse, where he and another suspect allegedly took delivery of what they thought was ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, and the same substance used in the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
Fifteen others are also facing charges connected to the alleged plot.
Entered mosque to pray
Amiruddin says Khalid used to come to his mosque to pray, sometimes in the company of Zakaria Amara and Fahim Ahmad, two of the alleged ringleaders.
"They would enter into the mosque to pray, and they would pray in a very aggressive manner, and they would come in military fatigues and military touques and stuff. It looked to me that they were watching a lot of those Chechnyan jihad videos online and stuff."
Amiruddin is a teacher of Sufism, a traditional brand of Islam that rejects the ideology of jihad.
But not historically. See here for details.
Amiruddin says the group was seduced by hardline propaganda financed by the Saudi government and promoting a strict, Wahhabi brand of Islam.He says the Saudis have flooded Canada with free Qur'ans, laced with jihadist commentary.
"In the back of these Qur'ans that are being published in Saudi Arabia, you have basically essays on the need for offensive jihad and the legitimacy of offensive jihad and things like that. Very alarming stuff," he said.
Amiruddin said many mainstream Muslim organizations in Canada are really part of the problem, standing by as extremist propaganda spreads in the mosques.
But do not these words reproach him also -- unless he has been working with Canadian officials and the article doesn't tell us that?
He cites the Al-Rahman centre in Mississauga, Ont., which he links to the Al-Maghrib Institute, which runs a popular educational website. It's nominally run out of Ottawa, but Amiruddin says it's really a Saudi operation.Recruiting young teens
Amiruddin says Khalid underwent a rapid transition from a clean-cut Canadian teenager to a long-haired, radicalized introvert.
He says the young men would pray by themselves, and try to recruit younger teens to the fundamentalist Wahhabi view.
What did Amiruddin do to try to stop that recruitment? Did he implement a comprehensive program to teach young Muslims the errors of the "Wahhabi view"? Or did he just stand by passively?
This does not surprise me in the least, and it happens all over the Western world and other parts where money from Saud influences the so called muslim of peaceful jihad. l had one day drove in a part of town l dont go to often, inner city of Windsor, and drove right into a driveway of a huge mosque with a huge black flag on top, there were two thugs in a truck blocking their driveway, which l had just drove into to make a U turn as l had passed the place l needed to find. they gave me that tough look, l waved and smiled, but my friend who knows not much of islam had a quick dislike to these thugs and told them off.. l was glad l got out fast enough to pick up my parcel next door. anyhow this neighbourhood is populated by very poor lower class housing, not slums but you have this multi million dollar building standing out ugly, and looks quite out of place. this mosque would be the biggest l have seen! tons of money must of poured into that place!
Take a look at that kid in the lower right part of the photo. He's already plannning something.
Is Ridley white or muslim? Muslim, no doubt in my mind.
saudi funded mosques are coming up fast in India as well. Couple of months back, after a 120 feet minaret was added to an old mosque by saudis, I took a tour of the 50 mile radius of my city. Either new mosques are coming up, or old mosques are being given funding for minarets. Construction in full swing. The money from the increased crude prices during the last two years is being used to finance mosques and madrasas.
anti-uffe,
It is very difficult to find informers in mosques. The muslim ummah is too strong. And if a newcomer goes to a mosque, even if well versed in kuran, the mullahs shall either ask for a refrence from another mosque, wherever the newcomer came from, or a local refrence. Physical examination is also performed.
"They would enter into the mosque to pray, and they would pray in a very aggressive manner, and they would come in military fatigues and military touques and stuff. It looked to me that they were watching a lot of those Chechnyan jihad videos online and stuff." -from CBC article.
Amazing. And what's even more amazing is that folks such as at the CBC would not even have a clue to ask why no Muslims reported these guys to the police. And if the CBC, Toronto Star, et al, did have a clue, they wouldn't ask due to their own PC prejudices. One is tempted to conclude that they'd rather allow non-Muslims to be killed than dare say something that could be interpreted as offensive.
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Here is a condensed article written by Edward Morrissey this past October on this subject:
The Saudis have come under fire repeatedly since 9/11 for their sponsorship of radical Wahhabbism and incitement of violent jihad in their madrassas in America while selling themselves as dedicated anti-terrorists abroad. It turns out that they have been selling more than that here in the US.
The American government is demanding that Saudi Arabia account for its distribution of hate material to American mosques, as the State Department presses Saudi officials for answers on radical Wahhabism on American shores.after a report from the Center for Religious Freedom discovered that dozens of mosques in major cities across the country, including New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, were distributing documents, bearing the seal of the government of Saudi Arabia, that incite Muslims to acts of violence and promote hatred of Jews and Christians.
A Washington-based group that is part of the human rights organization Freedom House, the Center for Religious Freedom found during a yearlong study that the Saudi-produced materials describe democracy and America as un-Islamic, YA THINK!. They instruct recent Muslim immigrants to consider Americans as enemies and the materials urge new arrivals to use their time here in preparation for jihad. The documents also promote the version of Islam officially embraced by Saudi government and several of the September 11, 2001, hijackers, Wahhabism, as the only authentic Islam.
. The Saudis spread this kind of propaganda everywhere it goes, although one would think that after 9/11, they might have had the good taste to forego it here, especially considering the importance of maintaining a friendly relationship with one of the countries that makes the House of Saud the richest family in the world.
Not so. The material itself aims straight at the heart of the multiculturalism that allows its dissemination. It calls on Muslims within the US to reject our laws and civil society, and condemns democracy as un-Islamic, for example. It urges them to consider themselves, as Muslims in the US, as soldiers "behind enemy lines" -- a strange concept for an ostensible ally to push with its sympathizers. It advocates violence against those Muslims who convert out of the faith, and imams who preach tolerance.
These materials do not bear the imprint of a couple of wackos within the massive and unwieldy House of Saud, either. The publishers include the Saudi Air Force, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and the Cultural Attache of the Saudi Embassy in DC.
Congress and the White house have quietly tried to get the Saudis to stop sending in this material . The Saudis have promised to do so, but they lied and continue anyway. .
Our First Amendment does not require us to tolerate foreign governments from sending violent propaganda and identifying us as enemies to their followers. Instead of holding hands with King Abdullah the next time they meet, perhaps Bush might want to slap them instead.
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Basically, of all the Muslim states, the Saudis are the least trustworthy. Extreme wealth, arrogance, and Wahabi Islam - a very dangerous presence in the modern world.