Wednesday, June 07, 2006

What's the common denominator among the 17 terrorists from Canada?

Why can't we call a spade a spade? Robert Spencer clearly addresses the cancer that is spreading among us in the West:

Canadian officials are congratulating themselves for insisting, as did Police Chief Blair, that the jihadist suspects were “motivated by an ideology based on politics, hatred and terrorism, and not on faith.”

How does he know that? The suspects met in a mosque. They discussed their plot in the context of religion. Their fellow students and mosquegoers knew they were preaching and studying violent jihad, and did nothing to stop them. Instead of going out of his way to claim that Islam had nothing to do with this, and devoting all their attention to trying to prevent backlash attacks, Blair and other Canadian officials should be asking the Canadian Muslim community some tough questions, including:

- Why didn’t you come to us when you knew that violent jihad was being preached in Ontario?
- What other Muslims are preaching violent jihad in Canada, and where?
- What is the extent of support for jihad and the imposition of Sharia among Muslims in Canada?
- Would you yourselves like to see Canada become an Islamic state, even by peaceful means?

How much longer can officials in Canada and elsewhere in the West wait to ask these questions, and to follow through on the implications of the answers? If the jihadists just arrested in Canada had carried out their plans, they would have beheaded the Prime Minister of Canada and other members of Parliament, and destroyed the Toronto Stock Exchange and other Canadian landmarks.

Will it take a successful jihad attack of this kind for Western officials to wake up and do what they must do in order to guarantee the security of the societies they have been entrusted with protecting?

Read it all in FrontPageMagazine.com.

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