This is “just one person,” we’re told. “He has preached at the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu mosque attended by Martin Couture-Rouleau, the Muslim convert who killed warrant officer Patrice Vincent in October.” Has that mosque been investigated? “Chaoui was also the leader of a Muslim association at Laval University. One of that association’s members, Chiheb Esseghaier, is about to be tried on charges related to a plot to derail a Via Rail train travelling between Toronto and New York two years ago.” Has the Muslim association at Laval University been investigated?
Also, “Chaoui uses social media to share his fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. He has posted to YouTube and Facebook his views sympathetic to sharia law, and he advocates that women should have designated guardians.” But that is not a “fundamentalist interpretation of Islam”; that is taught by all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Likewise, Chaoui has said: “There are non-Muslims who come to our home and tell us, ‘Really, you cut off heads, you cut off hands?’ But that’s religion. It’s our religion in our own country. We decide how we implement it.”
That’s not “extremist”; that’s the Qur’an. Cutting of heads is in Qur’an 47:4, and cutting off hands is at Qur’an 5:38. The Canadian authorities are kidding themselves if they think this kind of thing is being taught by “just one person.”
Also, what does Réal Ménard think Hamza Chaoui is going to do now? Open a kosher grocery? He is going to keep on preaching and teaching. And before too long it will be abundantly clear that he is not “just one person.”
“Hamza Chaoui’s Islamic community centre won’t get permit,” CBC News, January 31, 2015:
Controversial imam Hamza Chaoui will be denied a permit to establish his Islamic community centre in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a borough in Montreal’s east end.
Chaoui is a Moroccan-born imam in Montreal with controversial views on sharia law and ties to suspected radicals.
Borough mayor Réal Ménard, who spoke at Montreal City Hall along with Mayor Denis Coderre on Saturday morning, said Chaoui was never given a certificate of occupation to begin holding meetings at his community centre.
Chaoui did apply for a transformation permit in January to renovate the building in question, Ménard said. However, he began promoting his community centre on Facebook before ever being granted a permit.
Sure. He was confident that his dhimmi marks would come through. They usually do.
Ménard said it was part of his job as borough mayor to prevent Chaoui from carrying out his activities, a position Coderre agreed with.
“I don’t want to stigmatize the Muslim community. This is the work of one person,” Coderre said. “This man is an agent of radicalization.”
Okay, sure. One person. But whom has he already taught and “radicalized”?
Coderre used the news conference on Saturday as an opportunity to voice his support for Bill C-51, the federal government’s new proposed anti-terrorism legislation. He said he asked the federal government to expedite its passage.
The anti-terrorism bill unveiled Friday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper includes a section that gives his government the power “to order the removal of terrorist propaganda” from the internet.
Who is Hamza Chaoui?
Chaoui has connections to radical Islamists.
He has preached at the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu mosque attended by Martin Couture-Rouleau, the Muslim convert who killed warrant officer Patrice Vincent in October.
Chaoui was also the leader of a Muslim association at Laval University. One of that association’s members, Chiheb Esseghaier, is about to be tried on charges related to a plot to derail a Via Rail train travelling between Toronto and New York two years ago.
Chaoui uses social media to share his fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. He has posted to YouTube and Facebook his views sympathetic to sharia law, and he advocates that women should have designated guardians.
“There are non-Muslims who come to our home and tell us, ‘Really, you cut off heads, you cut off hands?’ But that’s religion. It’s our religion in our own country. We decide how we implement it,” he said in a YouTube video which has since been made private.
Howard says
Robert, it seems like JW homepage is not being updated. I found the link to this page from your tweet on twitter, but it is not appearing on JW homepage. That hasn’t been updated for me for well over 24 hours.
Angemon says
May I suggest subscribing to Jihad Watch and getting notifications to your mail? 🙂
Howard says
update Robert, working with another browser.
Charli Main says
“I don’t want to stigmatize the Muslim community. This is the work of one person,” Coderre said”
As long as the Kaffir community continue to swallow this bullshit, the Muslim community is going to continue winning the global Jihad, in every country they have infested.
somehistory says
‘Really, you cut off heads, you cut off hands?’ But that’s religion. It’s our religion in our own country. We decide how we implement it,”
Only the blind of mind and heart don’t see…it is islam.
shabeer_hassan says
Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 80
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Verse:–“You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind.” means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam.
Bukhari :: Book 2 :: Volume 23 :: Hadith 467
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Every child is born with a true faith of Islam (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) and his parents convert him to Judaism or Christianity or Magianism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it mutilated?”
Muslim :: Book 33 : Hadith 6423
There is none born but is created to his true nature (Islam). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Magian quite as beasts produce their young with their limbs perfect. Do you see anything deficient in them? Then he quoted the Qur’an., The nature made by Allah in which He has created men there is no altering of Allah’s creation; that is the right religion”
Jay Boo says
blabber_hassan
“You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ”
Pride is Satan’s greatest weapon.
Every two-bit salesman knows this.
Jae M says
Re: shabeer_hassan
The hatred, murder and lust of Islam is vile to God.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Jae M says
These passages of the bible may also shed light unto why when you see the hatred, murder and evil before their very eyes some still do not seek the truth. .
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
David says
So why is he even allowed into our country???
biff says
Because he speaks french.
Quebec loves to bring these guys in. They speak french and hate capitalism as much as the ruling class of Quebec.
It’s the typical idiotic thinking. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Quebecers don;t really care much anyway what violence comes. These homegrown Quebec terrorists mostly strike outside Quebec. when they do attack inside Quebec it’s “symbols of english Canada” like the armed forces.
That’s the same things the Quebec terrorists themselves go after.
Francophone Quebecers used to have their own terrorists 30 years ago. The population is more sympathetic to crazy thinking then you think!
Jay Boo says
@biff,
Your comment is logically insane.
If Quebec on the other hand were actually separate from Canada they would at least have the ability to keep them out of Quebec although with the UN and Obama threating sanctions that would still be unlikely.
The purpose of your comment appears to be more about Francophone Quebecers than Islam and has all the earmarks of a troll attempting to cause off-topic division.
I suspect that your moniker is an attempt to impersonate (biff h) another commenter and you snuck in by dropping the ‘h’
BTW (BIFF) is the acronym for an Islamic terror group.
biff says
IS is also an acronym for terrorists.
Quebec already violates the UN charter on human rights with it’s own citizens.
Francophone narratives in Quebec is that hating anglophones is the only moral goal.
Terrorists that act the same as the FLQ are things the Quebcec union and ruling classes love.
If Quebec left Canada, it would be an even greater backwater.
Within in a few years the mafia will take over completely and the francophones will be using horses to pull around their broken cars like Cuba.
Nobody will be left in Quebec that knows how to fix things like cars. The population never got educated beyond masturbating endlessly about their superior culture.
Knowing useful life skills is for immigrants. The pure Laine Quebecer is an “artist” that wants nothing to do with real work.
Jay Boo says
What do you have to say about Islam and jihad Islamic centers?
biff says
Put a govt CSIS agent in each mosque and community center and monitor when it uses hate literature like the Koran in it’s teachings.
Shut the places down the moment they start to preach their hatred and violence.
Muslims are determined to destroy western society. Their religion requires it.
Only a fool keeps importing immigrants that want to destroy their society.
It would be interesting to see Quebec deal with a real problem instead of just manufacturing grievances against Canada, capitalism, anglo’s etc.
We are importing a muslim army that pushes for Sharia and destroys western society from the inside.
Progressives think eventually Muslims will “come around” and grow up like a normal society. This is their biggest mistake.
When you live your life according to Mohammed from the middle ages, you get the middle ages.
Isabella says
You should know that the Quebec is the only province that has a political party that tried to implement a charter that Muslims in Quebec fought tooths and nails and voted for the Liberal party in mass. The Charter included five proposals:
Amend the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.
Establish a duty of neutrality and reserve for all state personnel.
Limit the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols.
Make it mandatory to have one’s face uncovered when providing or receiving a state service.
Establish an implementation policy for state organizations.
But that party lost its election to the Liberal Party which as a Prime Minister Couillard who is very sympathetic to Saudis and there have been rumors that he was practicing medicine in SA and has performed some medical procedures in genital female mutilation.
So, I suggest that you document yourself better before throwing your garbage on JW.
mortimer says
BEHEADING? MISOGYNY? SUPREMACISM?
“But that’s religion. It’s our religion in our own country.”-Hamza Chaoui
NO! It’s POLITICS…supremacist POLITICS!
New song: ‘Your land is OUR LAND! Your land is MUZ-LAND! Because we’re coming! And your government won’t stop us!’
We need to designate Islam as a supremacist, misogynistic, seditious POLITICAL MOVEMENT and ban it.
shabeer_hassan says
#Qur’an 47:4, and cutting off hands is at Qur’an 5:38.
The vision of the Qur’an as regards the matters such as
individual, society and the like is totally different from that of the
materialistic ideologies. This is evident also in its penal laws. Islam is
never in consonance with the Freudian school of thought which sees
in man nothing but a mere puppet that could never break free of the
strangulating influences of the circumstances of his birth and
environment. The Marxian view that it is economic change alone which
determines all feelings of self and values is also alien to Islam. The
outlook of capitalism, too, which holds that the full light of personality
can shine forth only if those born free are also allowed to live their
lives in complete freedom,is also rejected by Islam. However, Islam
recognizes the fact that wealth, circumstances and environment all
have their effect on the personality of men. But the person, as such, is
never created by them. The individual feeling of self and the capacity
to decide his stand in differing circumstances are the prerogative of
the soul. Indeed, this has been the divine grace endowed upon man,
and man alone. For it is this very soul that enables him to distinguish
between good and evil and to decide his own choice between the two.
It is the individuals who constitute a society. It is, moreover, the
divine laws which seek to purify the individual. It is certain, then, that
the society which is made up of individuals who imbibe, within
themselves, the moral laws will be one in which peace and goodness
reigns. The individual is obliged to obey these laws. For it is only through
this that a self-purification becomes possible. Even so, there will be, in
every society, at least some who try to deviate from the moral code. If
such people are not stopped, it might spread and spread in evil becoming
rampant in the society ,thereby,leading to a state of anarchy and chaos.
The laws of the Shariah are meant to prevent such a perpetuation of
the evil.
The very objective of the penal laws in the Qur’an is to maintain
the individual and society in a state of constant purity. Islam does not
envisage a view whereby the individual may be sacrificed for the society
or the society for the individual. Nevertheless, the capitalistic outlook
which does not tolerate even the slightest encroachment of the individual
and the communist view which holds that even the most basic urges
of the individual ought to be sacrificed for the society are both alien to
Islam. The vision of Islam, on the other hand, holds that it is never a
mutually clashing relationship which must exist between the individual
and society. It is values that necessarily binds them together
harmoniously. The penal laws of the Qur’an serve to purify the individual
and the society by way of protecting these values. Thus, they are
centered neither on the individual nor on the society.
Any penal law can be said to be practicable if it exhibits the
following qualities:
1. It becomes a retribution for the crime committed.
2. It prevents crime.
3. It serves to create a sense of dread in criminals.
4. It serves to assuage the feelings of the victims who have
undergone privations.
5. It seeks to refine and transform the criminal.
6. It provides for the compensation of those who suffered losses
due to the crime.
7. It seeks to make the criminal repent his deed.
8. It seeks to protect the society from crime and disorder.
All of these qualitative functions may be seen to be fulfilled by
any of the penal laws in Islam. It can thus be said without a shadow of
doubt, that they are, indeed, practicable.
Jay Boo says
shabeer_hassan said
“… The Marxian view that it is economic change alone which determines all feelings of self and values is also alien to Islam. The outlook of capitalism, too, which holds that the full light of personality can shine forth only if those born free are also allowed to live their lives in complete freedom, is also rejected by Islam…..” and blah, blah, blah
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Let me remind shabeer that a man (Muhammad) who gives in to every lust and whose emotional and spiritual enlightenment is so debased that he would have the vile audacity to remake God into his own carnally unrestrained image with a shameless promise of 72 nine year old virgins is not a prophet.
Islam I s not a religion; Islam is a pig bath.
Angemon says
shabber_hassan’s post is ad verbatim from M. M. Akbar’s “Authenticity of Quran”.
Once again, shabeer reminds us that all he does is scan posts for keywords and copy/pastes someone else’s work base don said keywords. No willingness to discuss, no attempt at a rational conversation, nothing.
Like I said, taking out the trash.
Jay Boo says
When a religion is founded on such a fragile foundation as Muhammad, it is no wonder that Muslims in desperation to defect all attention away from Islam’s rotted core and its founder’s dubious (laughable) claim at being a prophet, would resort to cut and paste spam.
Jay Boo says
Sharia Law
Muhammad resorted to sharia law after repeatedly losing a debate with a donkey.
Muhammad felt insulted and vindictive.
Others tried to tell Muhammad that a donkey cannot talk but he claimed to have a revelation otherwise.
Poor donkey.
pongidae rex says
My girlfriend calls me a donkey. I challenge the distilled intelligentisa of the entire Islamic world to a debate where my only allowed response is the sound a donkey makes. I am confident of victory in this debate.
John Stefanyszyn says
“There are non-Muslims who come to our home and tell us, ‘Really, you cut off heads, you cut off hands?’ But that’s religion. It’s our religion in our own country. We decide how we implement it,” Hamza Chaoui said in a YouTube video which has since been made private. (ref. CBC News Jan 31, 2015)
Chaoui Hamza’s true belief and way of life is confessed in the following words that he spoke…
…” …It’s our religion in our own country. We decide how we implement it…”
Is this not a confession of one’s freedom for his rights…to worship their ‘god’ as is right in their own eyes?…and his country also embraces this religious freedom as a national self-right.
A conflict of “freedoms”, a conflict of religious self-rights….for this version of Islam is Chaoui’s religion, but Canada is not his country….in Canada there are many religions…
…in Canada Chaoui has the freedom to worship his religion as his personal faith, so does any other Muslim (whether Sunni or Shia), so does the Christian ( whether Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Adventist, Anglican, Mormon, or other), so does the Jew ( whether conservative or liberal), so does the Hinduist, the Buddhist, the Scientologist, the Satanist…and any other….and so does the atheist.
This is the true spirit of freedom…self-rights….to justify, serve, and magnify oneself (XES), one’s own god, one’s own religion, one’s own lifestyle, one’s own interests and values.
…to justify decapitation & murder in the name of a religion, to justify sex with under age girls, to justify degradation of women, to justify fornication, to justify war, to justify any speech ( for the Muslim has hated as much as the Christian or the Jew), to justify greed, to justify abortion, to justify homosexuality, to justify self-glorification.
…And to justify the FREEDOM and right to worship one’s own ‘god’ , as seems right in his eyes.
But the One Creator (He Who is GOOD) forbid man to take of the tree of knowing ( justifying) for oneself what is to be ‘good or evil’…He did not give them the freedom to establish what is ‘right’….He commanded Abraham, Isaac, and the Israelites to worship Only Him, TO DO GOOD…He never said that they had the freedom to worship a self-defined god and to justify the murder of one’s brother….as Cain did…i.e. Ishmael and Isaac were also brothers.
And His Resurrected Son, the Lord Jesus Christ said that we are to worship the One Lord Your Creator and Him Alone to serve in obedience and love, love for Him First and Foremost and love for, to DO GOOD to the fellow man , friend or foe.
Very soon, the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the One Creator, will return to eternally rule the earth as the One King according to the Will of ‘I AM’ and NOT according to man’s first love for his “self-justified freedom”, for his “self-justified religion”.
…and He is the Only True Way and He is the Only One that will execute judgement….not men.
Oliver says
“There are non-Muslims who come to our home and tell us, ‘Really, you cut off heads, you cut off hands?’ But that’s religion. It’s our religion in our own country. We decide how we implement it,” Hamza Chaoui said in a YouTube video which has since been made private. (ref. CBC News Jan 31, 2015)
I agree. But let him and his fellow Muslims do it in THEIR COUNTRY–AND GO THERE, AND LEAVE THE WEST
Sergei Bourachaga says
On January 31, 2015 the organization known as CMFP-Canadian Muslims For Peace held a demonstration at Toronto City Hall, to condemn Bill C-51 unveiled recently by Prime Minister Harper, and insist that the Bill targets an entire community of believers because of the actions of the few who have tarnished the reputation of the “Perfect Deen/Arabic for religion”, a title bestowed by Allah on Islam-The Religion of Peace.
It seems that CMFP managed to elevate hypocrisy into an art. Instead of admitting openly that Isalmic radicalism has permeated the ranks of every Muslim community from Ottawa, to Montreal, to Toronto, to Calgary, to…and instead of supporting the Federal government’s efforts to prevent and contain Islamic radicalism, by insisting that Islam has to reinvent itself in Canada, CMFP is using Bill C-51 as a smoke screen to divert attention from the critical fact that, hatred against Canadians is disseminated every Friday in almost every mosque, coast to coast with absolute impunity under the freedom of religious worship.
We all know that every mosque opens the prayer session with “The Salat Al Fatiha” known in English as the opening prayer. In it Muslims seek Allah’s Divine help to stay on “The Right Path” established by Prophet Mohamad. “The path of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed favors[Muslims]. Not the path of those upon whom Thy wrath is brought down [Jews], nor of those who go astray [Christians].” The Koran 1:7
Imams and preachers remind the Ummah (Arabic for the nation of Muslim believers) that Canadians are not worthy of forgiveness, because Allah has instructed all Muslims in the following verse to abstain from any form of prayer seeking redemption for the Kouffars of the world (the infidel Jews, Christians, Hindus…) destined for hell: “It is not fit for the Prophet and those who believe that they should ask forgiveness for the polytheists and The People of The Book, even though they should be near relatives, after it has become clear to them that they are inmates of the flaming fire.” The Koran 9:113
Preachers and Imams remind Muslims also that they have a binding duty to “…fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in your hardness the chastisement they deserve; and know that Allah is with those who struggle/JIHAD against the evil propagated by The People of The Book.” The Koran 9:123
Preachers and Imams insist also that JIHAD does not have to be the spiritual realm, because Allah has sanctified wars of terror directed against infidels in the following verse:“We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers (Jews, Christians, Hindus…) They serve other Gods for whom no sanction has been revealed. Hell shall be their home; dismal indeed is the dwelling place of the evil-doers”. Koran 3:149
At the end of the Friday “khutba” (sermon), the cleric asks the believers to join him in the ritual prayer to Allah to grant Muslims victory over infidels/non-Muslims. That prayer is: “O Allah, pour patience upon Muslims, strengthen their feet and give them victory over ‘Qawm -el Kafiroon’ (Non-Muslims).”O Allah, give victory to our brothers the Muslims, the oppressed, the tyrannized and the ‘Mujahedeen’ (those who fight jihad against non-Muslims).” Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun January 13, 2015 “Muslims shouldn’t pray to defeat non-Muslims” http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/13/muslims-shouldnt-pray-to-defeat-non-muslims
Muslims worldwide, and especially in Canada, should study very closely the following statements of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who argued, in a widely publicized January 1, 2015 speech at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, that “It is inconceivable that the wrong [Koranic] ideas which we sacralise should make the entire Umma [Muslim community] a source of concern, danger, killing, and destruction for the whole world. This is not possible…We have reached the point that Muslims have antagonized the entire world. Is it conceivable that 1.6 billion [Muslims] want to kill the rest of the world’s population of 7 billion, so that Muslims prosper? This is not possible.”
Muslims of Canada must reinvent Islam instead of condemning Federal efforts (Bill C-51) to contain Islamic radicalism rampant in too many mosques in Canada.
Sergei Bourachaga
Cartimandua says
Quite a political downfall for the former Liberal Canadian Minister of Immigration after 9/11 to be downsized to the mayor of Montreal. Still, he did say some interesting things. The one really annoying thing none of our political betters and media pc correctists is the Lone Wolf idea. Wolves never act alone, they act in packs, so let these stupid politicians and media reflect that. I suspect one or two will, then they’ll find a new term. Better they just say this is the work of Islam. We will have to wait. So no more lone wolf in our copy they ask? But I thought we couldn’t say islam.
el-cid says
The fact that a political leader in Canada is willing to take these terrorists on without apology should not be lost in this conversation.
Canada has Stephen Harper as Prime Minister, the moral leader of the Western World. Harper’s clarity and directness gives permission to others to have a real debate.
If the US had a leader like Harper instead of Obama, the public discourse would be more like Canada and less like Britain in the world, and the Islamic Supremists would have fewer ways to conceal their intentions.
pongidae rex says
SCIENTIIFICALLY PROVEN FACT: A wall of books behind a pinhead does not make it any smarter.
unbeliever1 says
Here are some very important details that was left out by the CBC.:
In postings on his Facebook page, Mr. Chaoui argues that Islam and democracy are “parallel lines that never intersect” because democracy allows for the election of “an infidel or a homosexual or an atheist who denies the existence of Allah.”
In other teachings, he has denounced the World Cup of soccer, where stadiums were rife with the temptations of music, dancing and alcohol. Yet he disagreed with Saudi Arabia’s refusal to let women drive, saying it was not nearly as risky as the alternative — the prospect of women coming into physical contact with men while travelling by taxi or public transport.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/montreal-muslim-cleric-with-jihad-ties-denied-permit-for-islamic-center#comments