Imam Syed Soharwardy is regarded as a prominent “moderate” spokesman for the Muslim community; he is regularly featured in the media and is well known as the imam who delivered a fatwa against the Islamic State and its recruiting efforts in Canada. He is also the founder of Muslims Against Terrorism, as well as of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada.
Yet this same imam stated on his Facebook page that “there is no difference between Islamophobes and terrorists.” Some other notable proclamations from Soharwardy:
“Sharia cannot be customized for specific countries. These universal, divine laws are for all people of all countries for all times.”
“I am one of the founding members of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice. The mandate of the institute is to resolve disputes within existing Canadian laws by using the principles of conflict resolution from Islamic Law, or sharia.”
“Presently, what Israeli forces are doing to Palestinians is worse than the Holocaust of World War II.”
Now, Soharwardy is making news in Pakistan as the imam in Canada who is “under police radar for hate speech” against a local publisher who has not been identified, in what many witnesses describe as a “malicious campaign.” “Hate speech” laws are absurd, but calling this publisher a “devil” and “kaafir” is clear incitement to violence against him.
“Pakistani Imam in Canada Under Police Radar for Hate Speech Against Local Publisher,” by Dawood Rehman, Daily Pakistan, January 5, 2017:
CALGARY – Police in Canada are investigating allegations of hate speech by a local imam who called a publisher and its administration ‘devil’ and ‘kaafir’.
Professor Syed Badiuddin Soharwardy, an imam at a mosque, has been under investigation by the Calgary Police for spreading hate messages against a local publisher on a mass level through internet.
A number of people reported to the police that Soharwardy launched a malicious campaign against a local publisher (unnamed due to the sensitivity of the nature) with the support of his followers, provoking the public at large.
The National Press Council and the Canadian Journalists Association has also expressed serious concerns over the threats made to the publisher.
Soharwardy was born in a highly respected religious family in Karachi, Pakistan. His father, Allama Syed Muhammad Riazuddin Soharwardy was a famous Islamic scholar and the Imam of Jamia Bughdadi Masjid, Martin Road, Karachi where he established Dar-ul-Aloom Soharwardia.
He received his early Islamic education from his father, teacher and spiritual guide in the traditional Islamic Madrasah at Bughdadi Masjid……
He is also the founder of Muslims Against Terrorism (MAT). He founded MAT in Calgary in January 1998. He is also the founder of Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC). He has authored several papers on various topics such as, challenges for Muslims in the western world, conflicts within the Muslim community, Intra and Inter religion conflicts, terrorism, and political Islam….

IQ al Rassooli says
Dear KUFFAR, please always remember that as Infidels/ Kuffar/ None Muslims, it is VITAL that you realize that one does not need more than two brain cells of logic to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~
Since every Muslim is Sharia compliant, every Muslim cannot ever be a Law abiding LOYAL citizen in ANY none Muslim nation because these nations do not submit to Allah’s Sharia.
Hence every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth (80% of current of none Muslim humanity)
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough. (Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists but ALL Terrorists against Infidels are MUSLIMS)
Every Muslim is therefore a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off
Only in the WARPED imagination of leftists can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist
Therefore, because Sharia prohibits them, no Muslim can ever be LOYAL to the laws or the peoples who are Infidels/ Kuffar
All other explanations are superfluous and redundant
It is time for every decent human being to go out in the street and declares these TRUTHS in public and always counter attack the apologists for Muslims and Islam with the FACTS above to utterly discredit them in public
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
http://www.alrassooli.com
Michael Copeland says
“I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be.
We pledge to wage jihad for the rest of our lives until either we implant Islam all over the world or meet our Lord as bearers of Islam.”
Samir Khan, US citizen, Al Qaeda member, formerly of North Carolina and New York City.
http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/sedition
IQ al Rassooli says
Thank you Michael for you comment
The TRAGEDY at the moment is that there still are over 100,000,000 Americans who are still Brain Dead regarding these FACTS
A greater tragedy is that it will require MORE dead innocent Americans at the hands of MUSLIMS before many more will wake up but the dynamics of unrelenting Muslim Terrorism will eventually do so
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
t. says
IQ al Rassooli, you’re really very Kafir and you deserve to be proud!
I always enjoy reading your comments.
BLC says
The term “moderate Muslim” is an oxymoron.
mortimer says
Re “moderate Muslim”… a radical cuts your head off while the “moderate Muslim” holds your arms and legs.
Atheist Kaffur says
Certain words must now begin to be removed from the lexicon. Islam, is Islam end of story. Its people that become radicalized or influenced by it’s teachings in a bad way. The next step is to fight the ideology of jihad and it must be deconstructed step by step. A bit like what happened to Christianity in the last 100 years.
mortimer says
Agree with IQ. Too true!
linnte says
I do this countering Islam all day on YouTube. and you are so correct IQ! And every Non-Muslim needs to know that according to Sharia, they CANNOT be our friend. I hear SO MANY Non-Muslims say “my friend, blah blah blah”.
BC says
Ms Williams is incorrect in using the expression ‘under police radar’ Under the radar means not observed. On the radar is correct. She does use terms correctly in the article but not in Headline
BC says
Sorry that should be Dawood Rehman not Ms Williams
Guy Macher says
This clown wanted Ezra Levant arrested for reprinting the infamous “Mohamed Cartoons”! He actually demanded the Calgary police make the arrest because of blasphemy against the “prophet Mohamed”. He then laid a complaint against Ezra with the Human Rights Commission. See his response here: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ezra+levvant+video+hrc&&view=detail&mid=A2567458F14B2529BEB8A2567458F14B2529BEB8&rvsmid=E6AD4D837F7AF61219DCE6AD4D837F7AF61219DC&fsscr=0&FORM=VDFSRV
linnte says
Thanks for sharing this!
DFD says
Hi Folks, a few things to cheer you up
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Links are chopped, you have to add the https plus the :// separately. Otherwise that post gets deleted. Happened to me frequently over the last few weeks, don’t know why. I will however attach them singly as link 1, link 2 and link 3 as a reply to this post, right below the post.
ENJOY!
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1st one US:
Sharktank, two ISIS guys seek a $400 mio investment… It’s a must!
youtu.be/P4DOyAwN13U ( full link 1 below)
2nd one US: The real houswifes of ISIS
youtu.be/JHGgv6p7uVI again, a must!
(full link 2 below)
And finally from Germany, and this was not meant to be funny, but turned out to be, on expense of the greens, politically correct “good people” etc. Talk about embarrassment. A German condemned the invaders on his facebook page, first without a video, telling them they have no balls and can’t get a women in a decent way, they are lazy bums and give decent immigrants a bad name. He’s proud to be a German, is happy to be in Germany, etc. And finally tells them to go back to Africa or where ever they came from, if they don’t want to assimilate and to adjust to the German way of life and the German culture. He used strong words, “Scheisse (Sh..t) and more” He now thinks of running in the next county elections as an independent. If he gets elected, trouble makers and jihadis, move somewhere else!
Can you guess the storm that broke lose, what a Nazi, what a racist!
And what a storm!
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Then came the video – he’s black, his parents are from some African republic, which he condemns. Oh dear! Usually there’s supposed to be a calm before the storm, well, here it’s the other way round. The calm is an eerie silence. Here is the link.
youtu.be/HoOE8zBf2hY
(full link 3 below)
DFD says
Link 1
https://youtu.be/P4DOyAwN13U
DFD says
Link 2
https://youtu.be/JHGgv6p7uVI
DFD says
Link 3
https://youtu.be/HoOE8zBf2hY
Achmed says
I’ve seen the vignette for the “Housewives of Isis” ., it was simply hilarious. Thanks for the link … time to watch it again.
Kepha says
My father, God rest him, once respectfully observed of a Jewish immigrant couple from Poland who had survived the Nazis and fled the Communists, “There go the real 150% Americans”. Hats off to this Afro-German guy.
Achmed says
I wondered why my comment was awaiting approval, until I checked the email address … I had typed yahool.com as opposed to yahoo.com
Fascinating how this works .. clean your cache … best to check one’s typing.
DFD says
Thanks, but makes no diff
Stan Lee says
Based upon a “fatwah” against ISIS? I’m sure that while some people thought his “fatwah” proved him as a “good guy,” such a declaration from Soharwardy could also have been made in order to insulate this Imam’s reputation as being a moderate.
ISIS must have earned millions of “fatwahs” by now and they haven’t slowed ISIS down.
What has served to discourage ISIS fighters are bombing attacks from air power, and what will further blunt ISIS is strong, organized, military opposition.
ISIS fighters have been deserting, and returning to their original European homelands. Russian No.Caucuses Muslims are returning to the Russian No.Caucuses, a contingent of Kosovo fighters have returned to Kosovo and others to points of the EU. I doubt they have “retired” from their jihads.
Uncovering their activities will have a greater degree of difficulty.
anon says
“Sharia cannot be customized for specific countries. These universal, divine laws are for all people of all countries for all times.”
Of course, Allah (Satan) does not want competition, especially from those who respect God.
PRCS says
“a famous Islamic scholar”
Read: a skilled tap dancer.
Ginger says
“Islamic scholar” – a man who can recite the Koran forwards as well as backwards.
JIMJFOX says
Who said– “in the West, we consider a scholar as someone who has read more than ONE book”. Excellent!
duh swami says
Muslims against terrorism…Both of them are apostates…or lying…
Marty Trout says
Here’s what Kafir means. –https://www.politicalislam.com/kafir/
Marty Trout says
Here’s what Kafir means. –https://www.politicalislam.com/kafir/
Lesley says
When the Islamic State edges, and I learned about the caliphate concept, I read something by this Soharwardy guy denouncing the violence and terrorism.
I was so relieved to read an imam decrying barbarity that I reached out to him by email, and discovered through a short volley of emails that things are not as they seem.
As Islamists go, I think this guy is as bad as they come.
Lesley says
*emerged
mortimer says
And Syed Soharwardy is NOT (repeat: NOT) a COWARD running from debate with Robert Spencer because he suspects Robert Spencer will easily beat him.
(sarc/off)
mortimer says
Typical Muslim logic from Soharwardy: “what Israeli forces are doing to Palestinians is worse than the Holocaust”
Yes, many more than 6 million Pallies were put in industrial Death Camps by Israel !!! That means that Israel killed far more than the 4.17 million Pallies living today.
Question: if Israel’s imaginary death camps had been operating would there not be a deficit of over 2 million Pallies? HOW CAN YOU HAVE A MINUS POPULATION (i.e. lower than zero)???
LOL!!!! Islamic logic!!!
mortimer says
What’s this? “He founded Muslims Against Terrorism (MAT) in Calgary in January 1998.”
LOL!!!! That means he opposes AMERICAN, BRITISH, CANADIAN (etc) counterjihad and that he SUPPORTS jihad against AMERICAN, BRITISH, CANADIAN (etc) counterjihad.
MUSLIMS NEVER COMMIT TERRORISM when they are committing JIHAD!!!
LOL!!! More Muslim logic!!!
Kepha says
If advocating for an evolution towards one’s religious beliefs in the rest of society and saying Uncle Kepha is going to Hell because he won’t accept Muhammad as a prophet, Uncle Kepha can live with that. The problem is with people who want to hasten you on your way to Hell–and the well-meaning liberals who, feeling that dismissiveness towards any theological system more than 15 years old is the sine qua non of civilized discourse, enable such troublemakers.
As a well-wisher towards Canada, and one who hopes that North America will remain for the long term the continent of the world’s longest peaceful border, I really think our northern neighbors need to launch some kind of movement for free speech (except, of course, for falsely yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater). Further, for our side of the 49th parallel and the Great Lakes, I’m all for the impeachment, removal, and disbarment for life of any judge who upholds hate speech codes.
Angemon says
This is the clown who, last year, on Facebook, roared and challenged Robert Spencer to a public debate, only to have Mr. Spencer to take him on his offer, only to impose draconian conditions about the venue and moderators – surprise, surprise, both would be openly hostile to Mr. Spencer.
Oh, and his most recent post on his FB page at the time I write these words, is him ranting about the “Wahabi Islamophobes alliance” which, according to him, “has started spreading rumors about me”. It ends with “May Allah save us from the Fitnah of Daesh Taliban sympathizer Wahabis and Islamophobes”. Because, you know, apparently “islamophobes” are in good terms with islamic groups such as the ISIS, the Taliban and Saudi Arabia.
Angemon says
P.S.: His penultimate post is:
“A century ago those who destroyed Caliphate (Khilafat-e-Islamiyah- Ottoman Empire) are trying to establish Caliphate. Isn’t it funny? They are establishing a joint Muslim Alliance Army while they fought along with European forces against the Muslim Army? They destroyed the Muslim unity and they are trying to unite Muslims against who????????????
They just follow the orders of their Masters. How these modern day slaves be the leaders of the Muslim world?”
The “Muslim Army” that the ” European forces” and Turkey are fighting against? ISIS.
Ali Bey says
Islamic “Scholars”…. “Earth is flat, and whoever rejects this statement is an atheist who deserves be punished” (Abdel Aziz Ibn Baaz, supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia, edict-fatwa from 1993.
t. says
1993? that’s pretty recent and a long, long time after Galileo!