“A message posted online eulogizes Salman Ashrafi, a Canadian member of the ultra-extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, as a ‘brave warrior’ and goads Muslims to ‘prove their manhood’ by following in his footsteps.” Not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course. To think otherwise will land you with charges of “Islamophobia.”
“Canadian ISIS member’s online ‘wake up call’ urges Muslims to follow example of Calgary suicide bomber,” by Stewart Bell, National Post, June 16, 2014 (thanks to Samantha):
TORONTO — A Calgary suicide bomber who killed 19 Iraqis has become a propaganda tool for jihadists, who are urging Muslims to follow his “great example” and threatening Canada to change its “oppressive” foreign policies.
A message posted online eulogizes Salman Ashrafi, a Canadian member of the ultra-extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, as a “brave warrior” and goads Muslims to “prove their manhood” by following in his footsteps.
Written by a fellow Canadian jihadist who goes by the alias Abu Dujana al-Muhajir, the self-described “wake up call” warns Canadians to “put pressure on the Canadian government to change its foreign policy in the Muslim world.”
It also cautions Canada against enacting laws aimed at stopping extremist Muslims from leaving the country to join terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Shabab, saying such measures will not work and will only fuel radicalization.
“Therefore, we urge the Canadian public to take heed from the recent history and not allow their war-mongering governments to get themselves entangled in a war of attrition with the Muslims for decades to come; a war that you an never win for we are a nation of brave lion hearts like Salman Ashrafi.”
The author claims to be part of a small circle of Calgary misfits who formed their own prayer group and, after deciding that being Muslim meant fighting jihad, left for Syria to join terror groups such as ISIS, which is now committing mass atrocities in Iraq.
At least two members of the group, Ashrafi and Damian Clairmont, a former mental patient who converted to Islam, have since died. Ashrafi was a Pakistani-Canadian business analyst with Calgary’s Talisman Energy.
His family told the National Post that Ashrafi had quit his job and moved to the Persian Gulf in October 2012, but that he left in December and they lost track of him. Abu Dujana said Ashrafi had gone to Turkey, where he waited for six months to get into Syria.
Last November, he allegedly drove a car filled with explosives into an Iraqi army base north of Baghdad. The attack was part of a wave of ISIS bombings that preceded last week’s assault on Mosul and other northern towns.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird condemned ISIS on Monday for its “brutality” after it posted photos on Twitter showing what it claimed were the mass executions of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers and police captured in recent days.
Ashrafi’s death is further evidence that ISIS is partly a foreign invasion force that is trying to impose militant Al Qaeda ideology on Iraqis. It has also fueled concerns that Canadians involved in such groups might one day return home to wage terror campaigns.
The RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service are investigating the Calgary group, which numbers three to five, and the role of a suspected Syrian-Canadian facilitator. The RCMP has also launched a program to track “high-risk travellers” and disrupt their plans to go abroad.
After Ashrafi’s eulogy was posted online, Syed Soharwardy, a Calgary imam who has been combatting extremism, wrote to police to say he was concerned for his safety and that of his family. The eulogy singled out Mr. Soharwardy, the founder of Muslims Against Terrorism, calling him “deviant” and saying his brand of Islam was losing out to the jihadists. Mr. Soharwardy said he had also received anti-Muslim hate messages since speaking out against extremism.
John C. Barile says
Social Darwinism works? You mean that you take mental patients, offer them praise and paradise, then load ’em with explosives and set ’em off? Hitler, Himmler, and Haj Amin al-Husseini would applaud, doubtlessly.
Peter Buckley says
“It also cautions Canada against enacting laws aimed at stopping extremist Muslims from leaving the country to join terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Shabab, saying such measures will not work and will only fuel radicalization.”
In other words, “if you don’t let us go and commit mass slaughter OVER THERE, we’ll do it OVER HERE”.
At least Canadians know where they stand with these people. It’s nothing Stephen Harper didn’t already know:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111904836104576556450025064690
This is hilarious:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/muslim-group-demands-apology-from-harper-chief-spokesman-over-terrorist-comment/article16541766/#dashboard/follows/
Wellington says
The specifics of this article aside, important as they are, what crossed my mind more than anything else while reading it, as with so many other articles dealing with some aspect of Islam, is just how sick the Islamic religion is. Well, as I have opined before, I suppose it was close to inevitable that mankind would get a world faith that was rotten from the outset, perverted to its very core. Mankind did. Mankind got Islam. It is indeed a monster and it needs to be seen by the world at large for the monster that it is.
Beth says
Indeed.
Beth says
“Canadian ISIS member’s online ‘wake up call’ urges Muslims to follow example of Calgary suicide bomber”
That is incitement to carry out violence.
Since when did that become legal?
mark says
Calgary is less than two hours down the road from me. Believe me, if Muslims of the savage persuasion reside in cow-town Alberta, they may be found anywhere. From what I have heard, the police are being obstructed from rooting out this Calgary network. Political correctness is into everything, it seems. It will cost us lives.
Walter Sieruk says
As for the suiciide bombers many of them are the result of the extreme mind programming that in done in mosques and madrasas. The imams and mullahs thouroghly brainwash other people into the Islamic doctrine from the Quran of some kind of lust filled paradise with many virgins in it for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. The false teachers as these imams and mullahs who very much indoctrinate this type of false doctrine as that of a lust filled place with virgins is explained about in the Bible. Which in Second Peter 2:18.reads “They speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Futhermore, many a times a jihadist talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false teachings. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures , nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,39. In contrast to the Islamic pipedream of the jihadist in the Quranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made know unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [KJV]
Mirren10 says
“Damien Clairmont, a former *mental patient* ( my emphasis : Mirren) who converted to islam”.
Yes, the only people who voluntarily convert to islam are the mentally ill, the evil, and the terminally stupid.
Well, thank God the fool is dead, one less to worry about.
Harper needs to stop all this suicidal nonsense about preventing them going.
**Let them go**! Just **don’t let them back in**!!
Why, in the name of God, do they want to *stop* them? It makes no sense.
I’ve spent the day writing proper letters to camoron, and my MP, and Teresa May, pointing out, a) stopping them from going is idiotic. By letting them go we are ridding ourselves of potential mass-murderers. And b) Once gone, they should not be allowed to *return*. They’ve made their choice; let them wallow in it.
I know many will say this is a pointless exercise, but who knows ? Perhaps one tiny little seed may fall on fertile ground.
dumbledoresarmy says
You said – “I’ve spent the day writing proper letters to camoron, and my MP, and Teresa May, pointing out, a) stopping them from going is idiotic. By letting them go we are ridding ourselves of potential mass-murderers. And b) Once gone, they should not be allowed to *return*. They’ve made their choice; let them wallow in it.”
Don’t forget the third thing that *all* of us – British, Irish, Canadian, NZ, American, you-name-it – should be pointing out, loud and clear – that if we do a/ and b/ ….THINK OF THE MONEY WE’LL SAVE!
All that anxious “monitoring” and stepped-up security measures and so on are *horribly expensive*. In these debt-ridden, penny-pinching days, maybe the *economic* argument will sink in when the others don’t.
Gil says
The Canadian Government should let the jihadis go and fight in Syria. Just revoke their citizenship on the way out.
Sovereign Man says
“After Ashrafi’s eulogy was posted online, Syed Soharwardy, a Calgary imam who has been combatting extremism, wrote to police to say he was concerned for his safety and that of his family. The eulogy singled out Mr. Soharwardy, the founder of Muslims Against Terrorism, calling him “deviant” and saying his brand of Islam was losing out to the jihadists. Mr. Soharwardy said he had also received anti-Muslim hate messages since speaking out against extremism.”
This is outright propaganda being disseminated by the National Post. Syed Soharwardy is the Muslim supremacist Imam who sicked the Orwellian and unlawful Alberta Human Rights Tribunal on Ezra Levant over the the publication of the Danish Mohammed Cartoons in Levant’s “Western Standard” magazine.
Here is a link to a video where Levant confronts the scumbag Soharwardy.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2014/06/20140606-220813.html