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Canada: Jihad recruiter quoted Qur’an to get recruits

Feb 13, 2015 12:47 am By Robert Spencer

RaedJaserrelatives“So this is how an alleged terrorist goes hunting for new recruits in Canada: take them for dinner, chat them up at the mosque and show off your new ‘safe house’ in Toronto, all while insisting the Qur’an justifies the murder of innocent women and children.” So says Canada’s QMI Agency, in an attempt to slam-dunk the case that jihad has nothing do to with Islam. But in fact the loophole, and controversy, here revolves around the meaning of the word “innocent” — that is, the question of to whom it applies.

“Court hears of alleged terrorist recruitment drive,” by Michele Mandel, QMI Agency, February 12, 2015:

TORONTO – So this is how an alleged terrorist goes hunting for new recruits in Canada: take them for dinner, chat them up at the mosque and show off your new “safe house” in Toronto, all while insisting the Qur’an justifies the murder of innocent women and children.

Or so it appears from the testimony of undercover FBI agent Tamer el-Noury, who spent months posing as a willing accomplice to Chiheb Esseghaier, the Tunisian doctoral student now on trial with Raed Jaser on several terror-related charges including planning to derail a Toronto-bound passenger train.

After Jaser left the alleged plot on Sept. 24, 2012, because he couldn’t work with his “rash” and dogmatic friend, el-Noury said Esseghaier was anxious to find new disciples to help him carry out his “projects” from his al-Qaida trainer.

“He wanted to set up a network of believers” in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, the agent told the court, and until these cells were in place, Esseghaier was postponing his original Christmas target date for the derailment.

In Montreal, he planned to go to the local mosques to search out new recruits, el-Noury said, while in the other three cities, he already had contacts who he thought would make good mujahedeen. In late October 2012, they took a road trip to meet and have dinner with two of Esseghaier’s potential choices, a man in Ottawa and a fellow Tunisian, Ahmad Abassi, in Quebec City.

Abassi was described to him as a true jihadist who could be trusted to discuss their “sensitive” subjects. As for the Ottawa contact, they’d have to feel him out first and eventually bring him onboard.

Both dinners were uneventful, but on their way to a coffee shop in Quebec City with Abassi, el-Noury recalled Esseghaier making a dramatic comment as they passed the legislative buildings. “That would be a good place to do an operation.”

After his misjudgment of Jaser, the would-be mastermind appeared more cautious about who he wanted to bring into his alleged terror cell. “He said don’t bring them into the plot just yet — ‘Keep them close until they’re ready,'” the agent recalled. In the meantime, Esseghaier would continue to “actively recruit” others.

He had a possible catch when el-Noury returned to Montreal.

On Nov. 20, 2012, they met for dinner with “Mohammed,” a former cruise ship cook who now opened and closed the local mosque. In the past, Esseghaier had mentioned on secretly recorded audio that he wanted to find a cook able to poison meals on a military base, but it appears he wasn’t set on this guy. El-Noury said Esseghaier told him he wasn’t sure if Mohammed was “about the money or jihad.”

They next saw each other in December when Esseghaier flew to visit el-Noury in New York for a week in hopes that he could finally arrange a long-promised meeting with an American “sleeper” — an elusive operative he’d been told about by his al-Qaida trainer when he spent six weeks near the Afghanistan border in April 2012.

The jury hasn’t heard how that progressed yet, but they did learn Esseghaier gave up his Montreal apartment and agreed to move into the Toronto “safe house” el-Noury had set up on the 16th floor of a North York condo — unaware that was all been wired for sound.

On Jan. 1, 2013, intercepts picked up Esseghaier trying to reel in a Toronto recruit.

Playing coy about the details, he said there were three different plots: “One project we need a military base, one project we need a train,” he explained, while the third would occur during a “celebration.”

The timing was dependent on the green light from the Mujahideen overseas. “If we do operation separate from the brothers overseas, then we are showing to the infidels that we are not organized, that we are weak.”

Quoting the Qur’an, he said he wasn’t looking for Muslims who just pray or give charity, but those willing to wage obligatory jihad to liberate “the land from the infidel” so Sharia law could rule over all.

“You are welcome to join at any moment, OK?” Esseghaier told him. “We need brain, we need money and we need believer.”

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  1. jay says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 1:03 am

    http://www.kcra.com/politics/apology-requested-from-california-lawmaker-after-islam-tweet/31249046

    Tell me you heard this one. She didn’t apologize, good for her!

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 1:35 am

    Originally, I believe this guy was thought to be a ‘lone wolf’, but he was creating a small army!

    Interesting that he wanted to poison soldiers. Mohammed was poisoned by his closest ‘friends’ Abu Bakr and Omar and then quickly buried beneath his bed after they finished him off.

    • Charli Main says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 10:25 am

      Abu Bakr and Omar probably realised that Mohammed´s insanity was past the point of no return. So, they had to get rid of the ” prophet” before his insane behaviour started to unravel the recently created pseudo religion –Islam.
      Their murder of the loony ” prophet” was neatly covered up by blaming a Jew getting two birds with one stone, as it were——

  3. LairdKintyre says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 3:18 am

    I am Canadian. These two islamists should be locked up for life. And make sure the RCMP squeezes them tight for intell.

  4. Saleem Smith says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 4:29 am

    The Canadian jihadi mentioned in this article is a dedicated follower of Muhammad and Islam. He takes Islam seriously and wants to apply more and more of it. This slave of Mohammedanism and others like him are willing to kill anyone that stands in the way of “Sharia law ruling over all.”

    I am an ex-Muslim living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy, and I say that Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was an exceedingly evil human being. The fully obedient Muslims wanting to apply all of Islam are essentially slaves to Mohammed’s words. They are slaves to Mohammed’s claims.

    Funny thing is – Mohammad may have never even existed. But maybe there is a God. Who knows? One thing is certain. Allah is not God. The Islamic God Allah does not exist, but if he did, he and his religion are undoubtedly evil to the core.

    Islam’s central document, a book Muslims believe to the perfect, unaltered words of God, goes by the name of the Qur’an. This violent, hate-filled book permits Muslims to practice slavery and even rape non-Muslim women captured in jihad warfare.

    THE QURANIC SANCTION OF SLAVERY

    The institution of slavery in Islam was formalized in the following Quranic verse, in which Allah distinguishes free human beings or masters, who exercise justice and righteousness, from the dumb, useless and burdensome ones, the slaves:

    Quran 16:76
    Allah sets forth (another) Parable of two men: one of them dumb, with no power of any sort; a wearisome burden is he to his master; whichever way he directs him, he brings no good: is such a man equal with one who commands Justice, and is on a Straight Way?

    Allah warns the believers against taking the slaves as equal partner in status and in sharing their wealth, lest they have to fear them as anyone else:

    Quran 30:28…do ye have partners among those whom your right hands possess (i.e., slaves, captives) to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you? Do ye fear them as ye fear each other?

    Allah recognizes some human beings, namely the masters, as more blessed by Himself than the less favored slaves as part of His divine plan. He warns Muslims against sharing His gifts to them equally with their slaves. Those who would take slaves as equal, warns Allah, would deny Him:

    Quran 16:71 Allah has bestowed His gifts of sustenance more freely on some of you than on others: those more favoured are not going to throw back their gifts to those whom their right hands possess, so as to be equal in that respect. Will they then deny the favours of Allah?

    Allah does not only sanction the institution of slavery, He also gave divine blessing to masters (Muslim men only can own slaves) to have sex with the female slaves:

    Quran 70:29–30 And those who guard their private parts, Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess—for these surely are not to be blamed

    Quran 23:5–6 And who guard their private parts, except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not blameable

    Therefore, if there are women amongst the captives or slaves, Muslims are divinely sanctioned to have sex with them as they do with their wives. This verdict of Allah founded the institution of sex-slavery or slave-concubinage in Islam, which was widespread in the pre-colonial Muslim world and continued well into the mid-twentieth century. As far as legal marriage is concerned, there is a limitation of four wives for a man at one time [Quran 4:3], but no such limitation on the number of sex-slaves.

    Allah also gave a divine sanction to Muslims for acquiring female slaves for sexual engagement by waging wars against the infidels:

    Quran 33:50O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war…

    Muslims can engage in sex with the captured slave women even if they are married, but not with the married free Muslim women:

    Quran 4:24 Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess…

    There are other verses in the Quran that talks approvingly of slaves and capturing them in wars. Thus, according to the divine commands of the Islamic God as enshrined in the holy Quran, Muslims are allowed to keep slaves. They can amass slaves by waging wars, have sex with the female slaves, and of course, use them as they wish. For Muslims, having sex with female slaves is as legal as having sex with their married wives. Slavery appears to be one of the most desired divine privileges in Islam, since Allah took the pain of reminding Muslims about this divine right time and again in so many verses.

    http://www.islam-watch.org/authors/65-khan/809-islamic-slavery-part-1.

    • DaveSchwep says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 10:13 am

      we need more ex-muslims to speak out the Truth as you have Saleem – –

      • Elisabeth Perrin Snyder says

        Feb 14, 2015 at 3:28 pm

        Saleem you are very brave and we read your words with encouragement. We also believe that islam is the evil of the world and that mohammed was nothing but a murderer and a pedophile. We must stop the islamification of the western world and people such as yourself need to come forward to help. Thanks for your insight.

  5. Dave Schwep says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:10 am

    quote to the Jihadi ; ” But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”
    Deuteronomy 18:20

  6. Dee says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:45 am

    How can anyone with any common sense believe it is okay to murder anyone.

  7. Angemon says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Quoting the Qur’an, he said he wasn’t looking for Muslims who just pray or give charity, but those willing to wage obligatory jihad to liberate “the land from the infidel” so Sharia law could rule over all.

    Keyword: obligatory.

  8. TheCountess says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 11:32 am

    To share:
    TV News an Prophecy site
    http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2011/september-october/nine-eleven-plus-ten

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