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Canada's Islamist Seat
Front Page Magazine ^ | January 31, 2006 | Charlotte West

Posted on 01/31/2006 5:05:45 PM PST by fanfan

Despite the Conservative victory in Canada, the Liberals can boast a new member of parliament, Omar Alghabra from the suburban Toronto riding of Erindale-Mississauga. Even before his election, Alghabra’s nomination victory made news because of the Islamic supremacist statements made then.

The event featured declarations such as "This is a victory for Islam! Islam won! Islam won! ... Islamic power is extending into Canadian politics!" as reported by Arab attendees, even those who had voted for Alghabra. Many said that Alghabra’s key supporter, councilor and Liberal party member Khalid Usman who came from Markham, took the podium with Alghabra, announcing, "We have the East, we have the West, and now we have Mississauga!" Outgoing Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish confirmed she heard several pro-Islamic remarks from Usman, that "made it sound like [Muslims] were taking over. It was extremely inappropriate." A Liberal party official, Elias Hazineh, heard Usman say, "this is a victory for Muslims". Usman onstage crowed to the crowd "although Mr. Hazineh (the riding president) keeps telling me he is a Christian I am telling him that he better be a Muslim," one witness reported. The Toronto Star reported that Alghabra supporters came from outside the riding and some were urging people to "vote for the Muslim, not the infidel."

When it remained unverified that Alghabra had personally made any of the statements, he vehemently denied any involvement, protesting that he did not agree with mixing politics and religion. He and the Liberal Party then threatened to sue anyone who said otherwise and the story was hushed up, suggesting that as long as Alghabra himself said nothing, no problem exists.

Maybe. But maybe not. Seems prudent to find out who Omar Alghabra is.

His official Liberal bio reveals he is an unmarried 36-year-old, Saudi-born Syrian who came to Canada at age 19 alone (his family remained in the Middle East), got an engineering degree from Ryerson University, and an MBA from York University. Some of his community work is mentioned - he sat on the Toronto Star’s unpaid community editorial board in 2003–04 and was president of the Canadian Arab Federation in 2004-05.

But some community work is left out: He was not only a member of, but a speaker for Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, a radical campus network urging corporate "divestment" from Israel. This organization also circulated anti-Jewish ‘bioweapon conspiracy" literature which helped incite the Concordia University riots in 2002. SPHR, which supports the "right of resistance" without denouncing suicide bombing, remains a group Alghabra defends in his writings and supports. Although many characterize the swastika-employing SPHR as more hate group than human rights group, and their members and activities are often barred from campuses, Alghabra invokes the right of "free speech" to pave their way.

He is also involved with the Islamic Society of North America. Upon his nomination victory, attendee Galal Abdelmessih noted that Alghabra thanked the Islamic Society of North America for supporting him. ISNA is being investigated in the United States for ties to terrorism. Its Toronto elementary school in 2004 received SR 1.03 million (about $350,000 Cdn.) from Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Development Bank, known for funding radical Wahabbiism.

Alghabra’s record also contains troubling elements: In 2002 the Canadian Arab Federation stated it did not consider Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations and strongly pressured the Canadian government against criminalizing them. It lost and Ottawa did outlaw Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. As CAF president in 2004, however, Alghabra still defended terrorist groups, to the point of condemning CanWest media as "biased" for calling them "terrorist."

Asked if he would specifically denounce suicide bombers, Alghabra would not comment, but complained that he was being "trapped." His name appears on an August 2004 listing of Canadians who openly support terrorism. Yet Alghabra maintains that racist discrimination is the sole reason why since 2003 he has been denied U.S. entry unless he passes a security check which includes finger printing.

Alghabra denounced as "offensive" Bill C-7, the Public Safety Act to impede terrorist activities, calling security concerns a "pretext" to suspend rights. He charges it would use "shoddy intelligence" to support "power abuse" providing as example the 21 Muslims questioned upon returning from a Toronto conference. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Assistant Commissioner, Kristi Clemens, explains: "We had ongoing, credible intelligence that conferences such as this one in Toronto had been used, are being used, and will be used by terrorists to transmit fraudulent documents, to fundraise, and also to mask the travel of terrorists. Based on that information, we decided to have individuals verify they were who they said they were."

Although Alghabra smoothly says, "universities should be responsible when dealing with potentially confrontational and provocative issues," he contradicts himself in practice. When programs featuring accused Holocaust deniers or groups seeking Israel’s elimination trigger administrative delays, room changes, or extra security costs, he likens Canada to "dictatorial regimes" and charges universities with "muzzling" free speech.

Alghabra strongly denounces Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police practices as discriminatory, demanding ever more "safeguards" against what he calls their "mistakes and biases". However, CSIS is already one of the most open and accountable security intelligence organizations in the world.

Alghabra supported the Niagara Palestinian Association in their Formal Policy Complaint against an Ontario Provincial Police Chiefs’ terror prevention and management skills exchange trip to Israel. The complainants denigrated Canada’s recognition of Israel’s world renown in terror management and demanded the OPP learn from the Palestinians too. NPA president, Burhan Azzeh, was arrested when co-workers reported his threatening at work: "Maybe it’s time to blow up some Jews". His wife, NPA co-president Susan Howard Azzeh, organized a 2003 march against the Jewish state and its leader, featuring the swastika and Hitler.

Alghabra says he finds "any mixing of religion and politics offensive" yet supported the application of sharia in Canada, lamenting in Arabic that "the problem was ... we [Muslims] who were divided among ourselves and disunited in our ranks."

Alghabra claims to be "puzzled" that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requires that broadcaster Al Jazeera be edited to conform to Canadian hate laws, while allowing Fox News into Canada unrestricted. He insists the CRTC must grant the same privileges to a broadcaster routinely breaking Canadian laws by airing material that CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen said exposed people to "hatred and contempt on the basis of religion", as one that does not.

Alghabra has denounced numerous Canadian organizations or their practices including those of the RCMP, CSIS, the OPP, the CRTC, CanWest media, Canadian university administrations, the Public Safety Act, and government officials that are in place to fight terrorism and keep Canadians safe. Still he won’t denounce suicide bombers. Instead, he relentlessly demands freedoms for terrorist organizations, extremist groups, campus intimidations, and anti-Semitic media. He positions himself as a moderate; indeed, he speaks like a moderate, yet he consistently subordinates Canadian security norms and values to individual freedoms in order to advance militant Islam’s standard positions and causes.

It’s little wonder his supporters babbled with glee that Islamic power is extending into Canadian politics.


TOPICS: Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; fifthcolumn; islam; jihad; terrorists
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Winning the election was a good start.

Hmmm.

Now the fight to get our country back begins.

1 posted on 01/31/2006 5:05:46 PM PST by fanfan
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To: fanfan

And so many think they're kidding...

2 posted on 01/31/2006 5:08:29 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: fanfan

Best wishes to the Canadian people, and may the left and the islamonazi's be defeated.


3 posted on 01/31/2006 5:10:33 PM PST by mosquewatch.com ("The enemy is anyone who will get you killed, no matter what side they are on.")
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To: fanfan
Instead, he relentlessly demands freedoms for terrorist organizations,
extremist groups, campus intimidations, and anti-Semitic media.


The real mystery is...
why isn't this jackball tenured at a major university here in the USA?
4 posted on 01/31/2006 5:15:15 PM PST by VOA
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To: GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...

Canada Ping!

Please FReepmail me to get on or off this Canada ping list.


5 posted on 01/31/2006 5:17:33 PM PST by fanfan
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To: fanfan

So it begins...


6 posted on 01/31/2006 5:18:48 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: fanfan

Two words: death squads


7 posted on 01/31/2006 5:19:08 PM PST by hang 'em (Russian intelligence: "Baghdad will become the Iraqi Stalingrad" Now THAT's an intelligence failure)
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To: CarrotAndStick

I agree.
They are not kidding.

They are using what in the 60's, was called "People Power",
to change demographics.



8 posted on 01/31/2006 5:22:38 PM PST by fanfan
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To: fanfan

One riding away from me. Small wonder our synagogue was rooting for the conservatives. We work on a lot of good, solid interfaith projects with Christians, Bahai, Muslims, not with this chap...not by a long shot.


9 posted on 01/31/2006 5:27:09 PM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: fanfan
As islamic communities in the U.S. grow in numbers, how long before we ourselves have a Senator Mohammed? And when it does inevitably happen because of our suicidal immigration policy, (which Bush likes, by the way), will he find himself sitting on some national security committee such as the Senate Armed Services Committee? And will he pass along our military secrets to his blood friends back in the 'old country'?

I see nothing standing in the way of something like this happening right here at home. In fact, with immigration and PC being what it is in America, I see nothing stopping it from happening.

10 posted on 01/31/2006 5:28:26 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: timsbella

It is a frightening situation.


11 posted on 01/31/2006 5:38:58 PM PST by fanfan
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To: TheCrusader

We have to find a way to stop it.


12 posted on 01/31/2006 5:40:00 PM PST by fanfan
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To: fanfan

I wish Canada much luck. Under Martin, Canada wouldn't have a chance against Islam. Muslims have gained a stronger political foothold there than in the States, but for those Americans reading this, this is where we are headed if we allow Islamists to govern. Already, American politicians are knuckling under to Muslim demands in regard to issues such as the Patriot Act and NSA wiretapping.


13 posted on 01/31/2006 5:45:08 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: fanfan

The Toronto Star reported that Alghabra supporters came from outside the riding and some were urging people to "vote for the Muslim, not the infidel."

When it remained unverified that Alghabra had personally made any of the statements, he vehemently denied any involvement, protesting that he did not agree with mixing politics and religion. He and the Liberal Party then threatened to sue anyone who said otherwise and the story was hushed up, suggesting that as long as Alghabra himself said nothing, no problem exists.

Isn't that ironic, a muslim lying. Who would have thought it? In fact a muslim lying is condoned if it obtained a good result.

http://answering-islam.org/Index/L/lying.html




14 posted on 01/31/2006 5:59:13 PM PST by ichabod_65
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To: timsbella
I would ally with almost any group against the Islaminization of Canada, maybe, gulp, even with the gay community.
15 posted on 01/31/2006 10:22:40 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: sageb1

There is some pretty scary shyte going on in the US. Meet and greets for Islamic whackos where they sell video tapes of how to fight Jihad. Of course the weakness of a Parliamentary system is that there are 308 individual elections going on. Too many for the media to keep the public alerted to scary scenarios like this one. Galloway won his UK riding on the backs of Moslems as well.


16 posted on 01/31/2006 10:25:30 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: TheCrusader

Hell, you have Senator Byrd, a once card carrying KKK. And John Kerry - who gave aid and comfort to the enemy and posed with hippies who had the indecency to pose as military men.


17 posted on 01/31/2006 10:28:01 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: TheCrusader

Hell, you have Senator Byrd, a once card carrying KKK. And John Kerry - who gave aid and comfort to the enemy and posed with hippies who had the indecency to pose as military men.


18 posted on 01/31/2006 10:28:02 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Sam Gamgee
"Hell, you have Senator Byrd, a once card carrying KKK. And John Kerry - who gave aid and comfort to the enemy and posed with hippies who had the indecency to pose as military men."

As bad as these treasonous, self-centered, arrogant politicians are, it's still not nearly as bad as if we had an islamofascist muslim sitting in the Senate chambers on some national security committee.

Sleezy politicians can fool a lot of people, (to wit BJ Clinton); but if an islamofascist muslim ever gets elected into our Senate it won't be because he's "slick", it will be because God will have blinded us to allow it to happen, as a punishment for legislating Him out of our government and pushing Him out of our hearts.

When God departs it leaves a very serious void, and one look around our country and the world reveals the Power who has walked in and taken over. The WOT will be won with prayer, as God will bless our troops and give them victory; or it will be lost in our arrogance and pride, where we place all our eggs in the basket of technology and science.

19 posted on 02/01/2006 12:19:32 AM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: TheCrusader

Will someone clue me as to the meaning of a riding?


20 posted on 02/01/2006 6:13:27 AM PST by edzuk
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