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Canada: Muslima once featured in CBC hijab diversity ad now arrested for trying to join the Islamic State

Aug 29, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The arrest of Haleema Mustafa is welcome news, especially in light of the fact that there is in Canada a greater threat of jihad terror than the Liberal government wishes to admit. In 2017,  it emerged that dozens of jihadis were walking free in Canada, yet authorities wouldn’t charge them. Now, in the space of just over a month, two arrests have been made: Haleema Mustafa was one, and in late July, terrorism charges were laid against another Muslim, Hussein Sobhe Borhot.

In 2016, Haleema Mustafa donned the hijab with pride in a CBC “diversity” exclusive entitled “The hijab is the ‘centrepiece’ of these outfits rocked by young Toronto Muslim women.”

With the glistening Lake Ontario as her backdrop, Haleema Mustafa is strutting her carefully-curated outfit on the boardwalk-turned-catwalk.

The CBC used the same photo of Haleema Mustafa in its story of her arrest that it used in its feature about hijabi fashion, without telling its readers that Haleema had been in its pages before her arrest, for a quite different reason.

The Islamic veil, however, is anything but a fashion statement.  Just ask the many women who are punished for not being veiled in many Islamic states. In Iran, they are treated as criminals, and “punished for encouraging corruption and debauchery.” And for those who insist that full covering is cultural, not religious, consider these passages:

(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted:

(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.

“Woman arrested in Toronto area for allegedly trying to join ISIS,” by Stewart Bell, Global News, August 26, 2020:

Ten months after returning to Canada from Turkey, a Toronto-area woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to join the so-called Islamic State.

Haleema Mustafa was taken into custody at around noon on Wednesday in Markham, Ont., north of Toronto, and was to appear in court Thursday to face charges.

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said Mustafa faced two terrorism counts: leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group and participation in the activities of a terrorist group.

A woman who answered the door at the family home declined to comment. Mustafa’s husband, Ikar Mao, was charged with the same two offences last December and remains in custody.

The couple left Toronto together in June 2019 and were caught in a Turkish city an hour’s drive from the Syrian border. They were detained and returned to Canada separately in October.

Few women have faced terrorism charges in Canada.

While women have a long history of involvement in terrorist groups, Canadian authorities have charged just three women with terrorism since 2013 — and only one of them was convicted.

“In Canada, there’s only been a handful of women who have been charged with terrorism offences,’’ said Jessica Davis, the author of Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State.

Rehab Dughmosh tried to join ISIS in 2016 but was stopped by Turkish authorities. Sent back to Canada, she planned an attack at a Toronto Canadian Tire and was convicted in 2019…..

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Filed Under: Canada, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), journalistic bias Tagged With: Haleema Mustafa, Ikar Mao, Markham, The Public Prosecution Service of Canada, Toronto


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  1. Martin says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    CBC – Toronto-area woman faces terrorism charges

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 3:35 pm

      Thanks for the video link, Martin.

      Both well dressed, well groomed – looks sure can be deceiving…

      • mortimer says

        Aug 29, 2020 at 10:38 pm

        Haleema Mustafa is a traitor to Canada. She should be prosecuted to the full extent of anti-terrorism laws.

        The CBC is one of the most naïve bunch of Leftards on earth. They wouldn’t recognize jihad if they had been the targets of it.

      • unbeliever1 says

        Aug 31, 2020 at 6:18 pm

        That video was made to deceive the naive into thinking that Islam is compatible with Western liberal dress modes. There is no way she could have worn that outfit had she successfully crossed into Syria and joined ISIS.

    • Del says

      Aug 30, 2020 at 12:17 pm

      Does that mean A M A V ? All Muslims Are Violent?

      • Fergus O'Byrne says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 5:23 am

        Yes. They all religiously follow the Quran, which calls for them to commit murderous acts of violence..

      • MykeJohn says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 3:04 am

        In my opinion-well, it is yes. See, all Muslims believe in Al Qur’an to murder so-called non-Muslims is cast in stone. Therefore they are all potential killers irrespective of being radical or not. The only difference between the radical Muslim and the moderate one is; the radical aka “jihadi one” will cut your head off while the moderate Muslim will hold you down for the grim act to be complete. Pareto’s Principle is applicable here. The 20% holds sway over the 80% else they will cast you out of their religion

  2. revereridesagain says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    “…their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire…”

    Yeah, it’s OK for your slave women and eunuchs to see that which Allahoochikoochiekoo has ordered you to cover up so your big brave slaves-of-Allah husbands will know which are the kafir women they can rape.

    Eeet ees a sacred theeng! Eeet ees a holy theeeng!

    • FYI says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 2:49 pm

      “allahoochikoochiekoo”

      Love it.That sounds like allah’s full Holey name.. or else some place near Kalamazoo.

  3. Princess says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 1:26 pm

    #diversityisourstrength

  4. E T says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 2:49 pm

    Justine Trudeau: “Islam is not incompatible with Western secular democracy”.

    Muslim Brotherhood hoods living in Canada: “ Islam is not compatible with democracy“.

    • Terry Gain says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 3:28 pm

      Trudeau is not compatible with minimal intelligence or common sense.

    • unbeliever1 says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 6:23 pm

      People such as Trudeau, Obama and other non- Muslims assume they know more about Islam than Muslims.

  5. DavidR says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    This whole drama displays not just the hypocrisy of the CBC but the absence of even a shallow understanding of Islam. The “modesty” called for by the Quran is obviously ignored. It isn’t achieved by merely putting on a “rocking” hijab. It isn’t achieved by pretending Muhammad was an open minded hero, or by ignoring Iran where modesty is mandatory. The CBC is a racist organization who hates anyone who understands Islam and is willing to share that knowledge with naive, trusting Canadians. Maybe someday this odd behaviour will have a diagnosis.

    • Jay says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 4:40 pm

      The CBC/Star have been spreading misleading info on police violence in Canada they claim every black person is assaulted by police yet stats don’t back that up.

  6. Keith O says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    Gotta love the irony.
    A symbol of diversity and multiculturalism arrested for terrorism, Just can’t make this shit up!

  7. nicholas william tesdorf says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    “Muslima once featured in CBC hijab diversity ad now arrested for trying to join the Islamic State.” … Now that’s real diversity for you!

  8. Ren says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Deportation would be best for her.

    • abad says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 11:26 pm

      Agreed, Canada should just send her back to Damascus.

  9. gravenimage says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Canada: Muslima once featured in CBC hijab diversity ad now arrested for trying to join the Islamic State
    …………..

    I’m shocked, shocked! Oh…wait–no, I’m not…

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Aug 30, 2020 at 10:30 am

      Please note the passive tense in the description of the alleged misdoing. The couple were radicalized. Something, somewhere radicalized these poor creatures. They certainly did not radicalize themselves. I’m not sure if the CBC is afraid of these terrorists and their groups or being afraid of being called racist by others on the far-left.

  10. OLD GUY says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    The sad part is that Americas border with Canada is wide open for these islamic terrorist to flow back and forth.

  11. lucretia macevil says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 7:45 am

    Can anyone tell me why these bitches, who say they wear these headbags for modesty, seem to apply their make-up with a trowel?

  12. Richard Courtemanche says

    Sep 6, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    What is she still doing in Canada? Don’t tell me she’s a citizen! Any citizen given under Trudeau should be redone.

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