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Young Muslims trying to reach Syria got instructions from Montreal mosque

May 30, 2015 5:02 pm By Robert Spencer

Adil CharkaouiBut…but…didn’t the mosque leaders try to dissuade them, and persuade them that the jihadis were misunderstanding Islam? “Youth trying to reach Syria got instructions from Montreal mosque, family members say,” by Allan Woods, Toronto Star, May 30, 2015:

MONTREAL—Ten young Quebec Muslims who were detained for allegedly trying to join jihadist groups in Syria received precise travel instructions, financing advice and moral support from individuals they met at a Montreal mosque, family members have alleged to national security investigators.

A source with knowledge of the allegations told La Presse that family members said they received advice so that their travel plans did not appear suspicious. Those instructions allegedly included advice to book tickets on an Italy-bound flight with a stopover in Istanbul. During the layover they were to make their way to the Turkish-Syrian border.

The source said the youths were also advised to get credit cards so that they could book their plane tickets and take out cash advances. The students also allegedly discussed details of their travel plan on a password-protected Internet forum.

No charges have been laid in the case and all 10 youths were released from police custody.

But the latest allegations raise more questions about the Assahaba mosque, which is run by Adil Charkaoui, a Canadian citizen whom security services long suspected of being an Al Qaeda sleeper agent.

Of 21 individuals who have either gone missing, been charged with terrorist offences, or had their passports confiscated in the last six months, at least nine have been linked in some way to Charkaoui or his mosque.

Charkaoui did not respond to questions Friday about the latest allegations, which were not directed at him. But in comments made to the Star earlier this week, he denied any wrongdoing.

“There is a lot of ignorance and malice. When we have both of them together it becomes toxic,” he said. “It’s as if everything that happens related to radicalization in this country is because of a single person.”

Charkaoui was detained and then subjected to restrictive conditions under a federal security certificate that was sought in 2003. He was never charged, the case against him was dropped, and he is suing the federal government over his ordeal.

Of the 10 who were arrested May 15, eight were picked up at the Montreal airport and two were arrested at their homes. Six of them regularly attended the Assahaba mosque.

There were at least two couples. Not all of the 10 individuals knew each other, but some of them knew members of another group of seven teens who went missing and are believed to have fled to the Mideast in mid-January.

Those links are part of an intricate and tough-to-follow portrait of a sprawling Quebecois network made up of young people allegedly drawn to jihad — the opportunity to fight and die for their religious beliefs.

“When you say that everyone knows each other, you’re right, because the Muslim community is one in which the youth meet often at the mosque or at conferences,” said Mahad Jama, who knows several of Montreal’s alleged jihadist figures….

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  1. Isabella says

    May 30, 2015 at 5:22 pm

    That mosque has to be closed. I do not understand that this place that is a jihadist incubator can operate without impunity. This is insane and how long are we in the West pull up with such dangerous institutions?

    • mortimer says

      May 30, 2015 at 8:25 pm

      A mosque is also a great place for intel types to go fishing for suspects.

      The problem isn’t the mosque. The problem is the jihad doctrine unique to Islam.

  2. Angemon says

    May 30, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    No charges have been laid in the case and all 10 youths were released from police custody.

  3. Wellington says

    May 30, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    Every mosque in a Western nation is a visual insult to Western concepts of freedom and equality under the law. Every damn last one of them. There is simply no way to square what a mosque in architectural form represents with Western conceptions of liberty and legal equality. Moreover, every mosque in a Western nation is announcing to those who know that Islam is spiritual fascism that Islam is fully prepared to feast parasitically upon the West, using the West’s freedoms which are denied non-Muslims in Muslim countries in order to eventually terminate those very freedoms.

    Islam is disgusting for many reasons. One of the chief reasons is its parasitical nature. And every mosque in a Western country stands as testimony to this particularly invidious form of parasitism. Muslims aplenty should be ashamed of all this, but then if one is a Muslim one is already a very confused human being and counting on confused human beings for anything positive is never a winning strategy.

    • mortimer says

      May 30, 2015 at 8:31 pm

      “Parasitism”…yes!

      Islam is based on universal slavery. In Islam, everyone is both a parasite and a victim.

      The goal of Islam is to have eternal sex with slaves in paradise.

      Islam (submission) is a euphemism for slavery.

      • Lia Wissing says

        Jun 1, 2015 at 1:18 am

        In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
        a spacious pleasure dome decree …

    • Brian says

      May 31, 2015 at 6:20 am

      Islam is a murderous, fascist, supremacist, misogynistic. totalitarian ideology with a veneer of religion, founded by a mass murderer and mass rapist that every Muslim is exhorted to emulate.

  4. Gary says

    May 30, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    So much is made of “THE PROPHET” in these Mosques across the West, as if he’s some, “Protected Species”, when in actuality he was a plagiarist, a con artist, a highwayman, a liar, an assassin, a paedophile, a shameless womanizer, a promiscuous, cheating husband, a rapist, an enslaver, a genocidal mass murderer, a desert pirate, a psychopathic warmonger, an anti-Semite, an intolerant bigot, a spineless coward, and a calculating and ruthless tyrant.

    Fortunately, over 2,000 years ago Jesus stated the reality of these “Religious Leaders”

    “You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

    Matthew 12:34-37

  5. Lynne Marton says

    May 30, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    Closing a mosque does nothing – it’s the imams that preach jihad, the teachers that teach jihad to these young radical moslems that must be dealt with!

    They have been allowed to get away with this for far too long – all in the name of what? Political Correctness? Not wanting to “offend” them??

    If they, these young, so-called “moslem jihadis”, are so anxious to go – let them! The mere fact that they would desert Canada for a bunch of islamic terrorists to fight against everything that Canada has given them – all the benefits they have – and yes, even the one to leave to go and fight WITH the enemy AGAINST all that we in Western Civilization hold sacred, shows that they do not deserve to be here.

    They should NOT be able to turn their backs on this Civilized Country, go and fight for the sworn enemy of Western Civilization, and then be welcomed back here!! That is the price THEY must pay for their treasonous acts.

    Just an FYI, in case you didn’t know, when any have returned, they are even more hellbent on our destruction, no matter what they say outwardly – it is burning even stronger inside them – and will be constantly fueled by these imams here. They have lived it, breathed it, eaten it, drank it, slept it and had it drilled into their subconscious.

    Scary thought, yes – but that is the reality, and we can’t afford to be PC any more and just ignore it, hoping that they aren’t serious – because they are – deadly serious!

  6. Champ says

    May 30, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    Truth or Lies? Or has the world gone mad?

    I dunno! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • mortimer says

      May 30, 2015 at 8:34 pm

      Taqiyya is disinformation, a mixture of truth and lies meant to mislead.

      The world is mentally ill due to postmodernism and political correctness foisted on us by cultural Marxists.

      • Champ says

        May 31, 2015 at 1:58 am

        So true, Mort!

        • particolor says

          May 31, 2015 at 5:19 am

          Got instructions from Montreal mosque …
          Turn Left at Turkey <<< 🙂

  7. Keith says

    May 31, 2015 at 3:32 am

    Why are muslims and there mosques treated with kid gloves all the time. If there were Christian groups doing what IS are doing and churches in the west were preaching hatred of others and giving advice on how to join said groups the church and church leaders woud be thoroughly investigated. Possibly the church would be closed at least during the investigation

  8. jewdog says

    May 31, 2015 at 7:38 am

    That mosque is performing a great public service, as long as anyone off to Syria has a one-way ticket with no possibility of return.

  9. Patrick says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:14 am

    I have been enlightened by working in certain prison environments, and if I may correlate that inmates in jail learn more from criminal teachings on the inside compared to the outside. You see where I’m going with this, the young Muslims would learn more from there mosque about jihadi ways inside the mosque environment. They deal in a tact where it is never really out front but all know it is going on , remember its ok to look an infidel in the eyes and outright lie.

  10. sahani says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Saudi war game. No more Arab army to invade your land. They send Mullahs with Kuran in their hand in millions cost $1 each. They invade and take over you local blocks by establishing Palaces with secured gates called Masjid Where a locals non convert are not allowed. But now your local converts are their new subjects whom they rule and control to destroy your nation ,you culture and your future.

  11. abad says

    May 31, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Every mosque (terrorist-training center) in the west should be closed down.

  12. Andrew H. says

    May 31, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    Pack up that mullah and give him a special flight right to Syria or Iraq so that HE can join ISIS. Drop him near an ISIS camp with or without parachute.

  13. celtic warriarcanada says

    May 31, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    NEVER FEAR ! Justin Trudeau will visit this mosque also(if he hasn’t already ) and WILL ENGAGE THEM AND DELIVER THEM FROM THEIR FEELINGS OF ALIENATION AND ISOLATION; BY PERSUADING CANADIANS TO ACCEPT THEM AS A MISUNDERSTOOD MINORITY, OBVIOUSLY BULLIED BY THE ISLAMIPHOBIC CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT . INDEED FEAR !

  14. pongidae rex says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    The problem is not Islam. The problem is the social and political rot that is eating the West from within. The human and civil rights revolution have metastisized into movements to destroy an ‘imperfect and unjust’ society, as if such a thing ever existed. Islam is simply being opportunistic in the face of weakness, as it always has.

    • Isabella says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 6:51 pm

      Hey!
      Western societies ate not perfect we all know it, but so imperfect that they why so many Muslims immigrate in our societies? Your argumentation is weak to convince me.

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