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Canada: Muslim medical doctor joined violent jihad group

Feb 11, 2014 6:39 pm By Robert Spencer

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He was a doctor of pathology who joined a group dedicated to violent jihad. We constantly hear that poverty causes terrorism, and yet we see again and again that that is not true; studies have shown that jihad terrorists are generally wealthier and better educated than their peers. In the same way, we constantly hear that jihadists twist and hijack the Religion of Peace, and use religion to cover their actual goals, when actually jihadis are fanatically dedicated to carrying out the Qur’an’s dictates to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.

“Accused terror suspect supported violent jihad, Crown lawyer says,” by Jim Bronskill for The Canadian Press, February 11 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

OTTAWA — Federal lawyers say a doctor of pathology from London, Ont., joined a homegrown group dedicated to supporting “violent jihad” by whatever means possible.

Khurram Syed Sher, 31, is being tried by judge alone in Ontario Superior Court.

He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiring to facilitate terrorism. The trial is expected to last a month.

Crown prosecutor Jason Wakely said Tuesday that Sher agreed with two others to raise money, send cash abroad, take paramilitary training, make and use explosives, and scout targets in Canada.

“These are just some of the means that they might pursue their overarching objective,” Wakely told the court.

He laid out the case against Sher, citing evidence gathered about the alleged conspiracy through wiretaps of phone calls, listening devices and intercepted emails.

Wakely then played audio recordings of a July 20, 2010, meeting at which the three discussed various plans, allegedly including Sher’s intention to arrange tactical instruction through a man he met in Pakistan who claimed to be with the Taliban.

“Sher said he asked the man to arrange training for him,” Wakely told the court.

Sher transferred money to the man in 2009 and 2010, and the very fact he would send cash to such a person is indicative of his state of mind during the period, Wakely added.

The federal lawyer also said Sher provided $1,000 in support of fighters overseas before his August 2010 arrest.

Wakely said that at one point in the investigation, police covertly entered the residence of one of Sher’s purported co-conspirators and seized 56 circuit boards that could be meant for “only one thing” — to build remote-control devices to set off bombs.

Police replaced the circuit boards with identical, non-functioning replicas, he added.

Sher, a graduate of Montreal’s McGill University, worked as an anatomical pathologist at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital in St. Thomas, Ont., south of London.

He made international headlines shortly after his arrest when it emerged he had once sung and danced on the Canadian Idol program. He has been free on bail, under strict conditions, for years.

Wakely said one of Sher’s co-conspirators travelled in March 2009 to Afghanistan, where he trained in a terrorist camp, learned to build improvised explosive devices and recorded instructions in a green notebook.

The individual returned to Canada and began contacting others by email from a computer at a public library, the lawyer added….

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  1. Murad says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    No Matter how many times you explain to Europeans that poverty is not the cause of Muslim atrocious behaviour, still they will say that it is. They can’t change their mind. Fossilized brains.

    • thomas_h says

      Feb 12, 2014 at 10:00 am

      ”No Matter how many times you explain to Europeans that poverty is not the cause of Muslim atrocious behaviour, still they will say that it is. They can’t change their mind. Fossilized brains.”

      Please let us know the extent and method employed in your futile elucidation campaign aimed to “change their mind” with respect to the cause of Islamic terror that made you conclude they have “fossilized brains”. I trust you have arranged a similar campaign among other groups, Americans for example, with an outcome diverging sufficiently from the former. Please back it up with concrete figures.

      Also, as nothing in R. Spencer’s post indicates he knows that the clinging to the myth of “poverty causes terror” is predominantly found among the Europeans he is most likely under the impression that the myth is equally popular among different western populations. Do make him aware of his error.

  2. panther says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    This propaganda that ‘poverty is the root cause’ of Islamic terrorism’ is spread willfully. It serves 2 purposes:
    1. Deviation from the real cause of terrorism i.e. carcinogenic islamic ideology
    2. Receive more money in grants from wealthy European & North American countries on pretence of eradicating poverty.

    The gullible west falls for it time & again.

  3. panther says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    3. Funnel the western grant money to fund more terrorist activities aimed at kuffar West & Christians.

  4. Wellington says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    Can’t make this kind of irony up, to wit, that a doctor of pathology is shilling for the one major faith which is full of pathologies, i.e., Islam. Again can be seen that truth is stranger than fiction.

    • gerard says

      Feb 11, 2014 at 10:21 pm

      You beat me to it Wellington. Islam is indeed a pathology and the irony is glaring.
      What I have difficulty with is how someone intelligent enough to acquire a degree in Medicine adheres to the absurdity of Islam! How can you think seriously about one subject and shut your mind about another?

      • Salah says

        Feb 11, 2014 at 11:14 pm

        “What I have difficulty with is how someone intelligent enough to acquire a degree in Medicine adheres to the absurdity of Islam!”

        Satan (Lucifer) is the most intelligent being ever created by God!

        • gerard says

          Feb 12, 2014 at 1:37 am

          So you are suggesting that this “doctor” knows very well that Islam is BS.

        • Salah says

          Feb 12, 2014 at 2:56 am

          Not necessarily. He probably believes in Islam. We must admit that Islam has a LOT to offer, Muhammad knew how to attract his followers.
          This doctor’s choice has nothing to do with intelligence, it’s simply…his choice!
          As I said, Lucifer was extremely intelligent, yet, he chose Pride over loyalty to God.

        • JessieJames says

          Feb 12, 2014 at 9:12 am

          Do Not Forget Salah; ignorance is Satan’s primary tool, with out it he is powerless.

          James 1:5 ESV

          If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

          Proverbs 1:7 ESV

          The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

          Psalm 111:10 ESV

          The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

          Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV

          My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

          1 Corinthians 3:19-20 ESV

          For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

        • gerard says

          Feb 12, 2014 at 11:45 am

          “Islam has a LOT to offer”
          I’m afraid I don’t see that. Unless you mean such things as temporary “marriages” and other such abominations.
          Islam has nothing good to offer.

        • Salah says

          Feb 13, 2014 at 12:41 am

          That’s exactly what I mean.

  5. Sam says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    WWII and German doctors killing jews and others=Muslim doctors killing Jews and others. So what is the surprise for?

  6. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    Medical jihad, the new reality of western democracies.

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 12:42 am

    Can their passports not be cancelled? Can they not be expelled?

    QUESTION: Why are so many Muslim doctors terrorists?

    • Charli Main says

      Feb 12, 2014 at 6:21 am

      Because Muslim doctors, like ALL other Muslims, start getting brainwashed in Mosques and Madrassas from about the age of 3 upwards.
      When I was working in North Africa, many moons ago, I remember long crocodiles of little kids being led off to the local Mosques, where they sat in rows repeating, parrot fashion, verses from the Koran.
      Not easy to de-programme this kind of fanaticism.

  8. Henry says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 11:12 am

    As a doctor I imagine he would have had to take the Hippocratic oath – and never do harm to anyone. He should be stuck off the register and put in jail.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 12, 2014 at 12:51 pm

      I’ve read that some muslime doctors don’t take the Hippocratic oath — they have their own muslime oath.

      • Henry says

        Feb 12, 2014 at 3:02 pm

        I found this : http://theislamicworkplace.com/2007/07/20/the-muslim-doctors-oath-rejects-all-acts-of-terrorism/
        It says this has been officially adopted by Islamic Medical Association of North America in 1977.

        It’s contains a misleading paraphrasing of Sura 5:32 (the one many taqiyya artists use). It’s one more reason not to trust a Muslim doctor.

        • voegelinian says

          Feb 16, 2014 at 12:07 pm

          Interesting. Also, its second paragraph is a formulation that crystallizes one of the primary motives for the various forms of Islamic violence around the world: The obsessively fanatical aversion to Shirk:

          We serve no other god besides Thee and regard idolatry as an abominable injustice.

          Note that “idolatry” (which = to Shirk) is not merely an evil — it is an injustice — paving the way for a political and military dimension to what should be merely a spiritual problem.

        • voegelinian says

          Feb 16, 2014 at 12:31 pm

          correction: “(which = Shirk)”

  9. doreva says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 1:57 pm

    this kind of dissembling “poverty cause terrorism” is rampant…along with other kinds of dissembling and disingenuousness…another Canadian example: the guy who wanted to blow up the viarail train from Montreal to New Jersey, he was a Tunisian who came to live on visa to Canada, had his science creds and got a plum job in a research facility in Quebec . so here’s this guy complaining how hard done by he is and hates Canada when he has the job that many young Canadian scientists would love to have (it’s very hard to get a science job in canada, why would this visa worker get it when young canadian born scientists go without? and then he has the ingratitude to complain and then try to kill a bunch of people on a train? what an asshole) now he’s on trial in toronto and refuses to recognize the canadian legal system as legitimate, only wants the “koran” . well im just using this as another example of actors of terrorism coming from anything but poverty…this guy from Tunisia obviously comes from a privileged background if he can afford a masters degree in science and then afford to get all the way to Canada…a poor guy would not “get in” because he wouldn’t have the background credentials for immigration…and furthermore it’s an insult to “poor” people , an insult coming from people who really don’t know what “poor” is, to imply that “poor” people will naturally opt for “terrorism” as a solution to their problem. these pontificators of “poverty causes terrorism”, well, you could invent another pc word for their outlook…it’s “poorism” or “pooraphobia”….that is they try to unite with the “poor” because actually they are terrified that they themselves might have to suffer what they think it feels like to be “poor”…of course, they know nothing about it, just like Saudi royalty know nothing about being “poor”
    oh well!

    • PJG says

      Feb 12, 2014 at 5:43 pm

      I agree with what you say about “poor” people and those who seem to reason that poor people have some kind of excuse for killing people. It stems from the Marxist view which saturates our society. This atttitude assumes all poor people to be seething with righteous envy and excuses them from immoral behaviour, while wealthy people think they are themselves envied, and that, for instance, when Muslim immigrants attain some wealth they will assimmilate. It’s all about money in this worldview.
      I first heard words similar to yours from Princess Anne, who was angry that people insult poor people in this way. I liked her outrage in defence of the poor and their right to be seen as individuals with a conscience, able to see the difference between right and wrong, not just tools for anyone who wants to use them.
      I have met, and read about, both poor and relatively wealthy Muslims, and I firmly believe it is neither ignorance nor poverty which are the sources of Islamic venom. The highly educated are the worst as, from their positions of influence, they take the opportunity to pontificate and deceive. I have been reading about Hasan al-Turabi, and his ability to confuse, politely insult, impress with his erudition and high-mindedness, smile and charm, while arranging the training of terrrorists and their regional travel, is utterly fascinating to read about.
      Poor Muslims living a simple life can, on the other hand, be living under the happy delusion that Islam is benign and Mohammed not much different from Jesus. It often depends on the pre-Islamic culture and what remains of it.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 12, 2014 at 11:51 pm

        “Mohammed not much different than Jesus”. Do you think that the rabid, pervasive Jew hatred, xenophobia and sacralised violence in islamic texts is somehow secret or obscure? Hell the life story of muhammad the most perfect and revered man in islam isn’t much different than that of any psychopathic dictator and his rabid Jew hatred puts him in the same league as Hitler. You would have to be a naif to think that someone can be a muslime and NOT know.

        • PJG says

          Feb 13, 2014 at 7:16 am

          It is not me thinking thus. It is simple Muslims, who don’t read the texts, who might think like that. But also: someone (a Muslim in Europe) I was arguing with on Facebook tried to defend Islam by equating me with Islamic terrorists, of all people, for saying Islam allowed, and actually insisted upon, slavery in Nubia. NO! NOT POSSIBLE!! Nubian Muslims believe in Moses, Jesus and Mohammed! And I am the very devil for even mentioning slavery in Islam, apparently.
          I know one can’t argue with these people, but it is always a shock to hear their “logic”.

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