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BBC: Vandals strike at Toronto mosque ~ ( notice the careful choice of words.... )
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| Monday, 5 June 2006, 01:39 GMT 02:39 UK
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Posted on 06/04/2006 10:06:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Vandals strike at Toronto mosque
Muslims make up about 2% of Canada's population
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Vandals smashed windows at a Toronto mosque hours after Canada announced it had foiled an alleged Islamist bomb plot, arresting 17 men and youths. At least 28 windows were broken but nobody appears to have been hurt in the overnight attack and a mosque official said five cars were also damaged.
Police have not officially linked the attack on the mosque with the arrests. But a spokesman assured Muslim community leaders that hate crimes would not be tolerated. "It is certainly possible that that damage was motivated by hate," Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said. "Hatred in any form, and certainly in its expressions of violence and damaged property, will not be tolerated in our community." Ameer Ali, secretary of the International Muslims Organization of Toronto which houses the mosque, said it was one of the largest in North America and has about 500 worshippers daily. Senior Muslim community leaders also told The Associated Press they had been receiving threatening e-mails since the arrests were announced. 'Serious threat'
Twelve men were charged on Saturday with planning a bombing campaign in and around Toronto. Canada's intelligence agency said it had been inspired by al-Qaeda. Five youths were also charged, following an investigation involving more than 400 officers. Police seized bomb-making materials in a series of raids in Toronto, including three tons of ammonium nitrate. Officials said the group, most of whose members appear to be Canadian residents from Muslim backgrounds, "posed a real and serious threat".
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TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: mosque; toronto; torontocell
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
But a spokesman assured Muslim community leaders that hate crimes would not be tolerated.
Only crimes against Christians.
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:09:47 PM PDT
by
CAWats
(And I will make no distinction between terrorists and the democrats.)
To: All
Highly recommended reading.,....this columnists gets it!!!:
Take a good, hard look at what's going on here
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Jun. 4, 2006. 08:51 AM
CITY COLUMNIST
Be sickened. Be frightened. Be angry. But don't you dare be shocked.
Unless you've been had.
Either way, the time has long passed for domestic bliss born of ignorance, virtue and wilful denial.
For everyone who thought Canada could cower in a corner of the planet, unnoticed and unthreatened by evil men even when the most menacing of a very bad lot has twice referenced this country as a target for attack take a good, hard look at what's been presented and what's being alleged.
Three tonnes of ammonium nitrate, thrice the amount used by Timothy McVeigh to demolish a government building in Oklahoma City. Cellphone detonators. Switches. Computer hard drive. A 9-mm pistol. Soldering gun. Camouflage gear.
And 17 males born here or reared here, certainly settled here, some of them little more than children formally remanded yesterday on terrorism-related charges.
If the accusations prove true, this isn't just slumming with jihad. For the benighted who claim that the war on terrorism is terrorism: Here is your war.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Hatred in any form, and certainly in its expressions of violence and damaged property, will not be tolerated in our community."
Should read :
"Al quada in any form, and certainly in its expressions of violence ,murder and damaged property, will not be tolerated in our community."
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:13:29 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
("Please run your Biochip across the scanner " Warning ! Warning ! Happiness detected Detain at Once)
To: CAWats
And Jews, and Hindus, and Buddhists, and Bahais...
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:15:49 PM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
I like your "editing". It's certainly more truthful than the original.
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:16:17 PM PDT
by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
There was FAR less justification to round up the Japanese during WWII and hold them in "centers" ---- than already presented by the activity of Muslims in the West....
Semper Fi
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:17:54 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:23:19 PM PDT
by
kitkat
(The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
ofcourse the 1000's of attacks every year against churches in islamic countries never gets front page reporting by the BBC.
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:26:30 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Police have not officially linked the attack on the mosque with the arrests.
I have.
Officials said the group, most of whose members appear to be Canadian residents from Muslim backgrounds, "posed a real and serious threat".
In other words...They're Muslims.
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:30:42 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Proud_USA_Republican
Well, the BBC and the others of the Left Wing have an ?Agenda.....
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There is a book,:
Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)
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And a review:
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Communism is dead. Long live Islam!, September 30, 2004
It sounds absurd: why would Leftists make common cause with a religion that is diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for? David Horowitz explains that it is really quite logical given the Left's first principle: America is evil and anything or anyone opposed to America is good.
Part I of the book is a brief history of 9/11 through the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and the Left's behavior during this time. Horowitz includes the reaction of Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine: "The flag stands for vengeance, and jingoism, and war." Anthropology Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University said he hoped for "a million Mogadishus." His colleagues objected, not to the despicable sentiment, but because of the bad publicity it brought their "teach-in." Our tax dollars at work!
Part II is the heart of the book: a history of the American and international Left. Horowitz calls them Neo-Communists or Neocoms. The Neocoms of old believed in the Soviet Union the way religious people believe in God. Those who spied for the USSR didn't see themselves as traitors to their country, but rather loyalists to humanity and an ideal of America that's never existed. When the Soviet Union fell, a few of them stopped for some introspection but most pressed on as if nothing happened. Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm put it nicely: "Without the Revolution, my life and my work are meaningless."
Now that they no longer have to defend an indefensible regime, modern Neocoms are simply nihilists. They know what they oppose but they have no plans for the aftermath of the revolution which they still believe will happen. They don't know what they want, but they know what they hate: the United States, capitalism personified.
So why are they allying with radical Islam? Horowitz says that the Neocoms still believe in Marx's dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Once private property is abolished, the need for religion will vanish, and Islamic radicals will stop being Islamic and radical. The only thing standing in the way is the United States.
Sound insane? It is. They are. I highly recommend this book. Horowitz makes the insanity understandable.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
But a spokesman assured Muslim community leaders that hate crimes would not be tolerated. What about crimes of retaliation?
What about crimes of warnings to get your people under control?
What about crimes of, if you think a few broken windows is bad wait and see what will happen if your little plotters manage to pull it off.
But a hate crime? Nope, hate has nothing to do with it.
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:37:57 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
How do they know it was Vandals? Couldn't it just as easily be Goths?
To: Paleo Conservative
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
muslims burning down the mosque for sympathy.
note the comment is declarative not a question
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posted on
06/04/2006 10:59:58 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
" ( notice the careful choice of words.... )"
Yep.
The BBC's shilling for Islamic terrorists continues unabated
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posted on
06/04/2006 11:02:27 PM PDT
by
Jameison
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Brainwashing young males into hatred and murder will be tolerated???
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posted on
06/04/2006 11:03:44 PM PDT
by
tkathy
(The "can do" party can fix anything. The "do-nothing" party always makes things worse.)
To: river rat
"There was FAR less justification to round up the Japanese during WWII and hold them in "centers" ---- than already presented by the activity of Muslims in the West...."
Right about that. There was SOME justification for the Japanese origins people back then. But just SOME.
There is a LOT for the muslims. Almost ALL terrorism in the world is muslims. You all know the very LONG list of places, on almost all continents.
I'll be mighty disappointed with two year sentences, for the Canadian bunch. Much better camps for the duration. How about Gitmo North in the Yukon?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Officials said the group, most of whose members appear to be Canadian residents from Muslim backgrounds, "posed a real and serious threat".But, were they going to commit HATE crimes? / sarc
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posted on
06/04/2006 11:04:11 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Hatred in any form, and certainly in its expressions of violence and damaged property, will not be tolerated in our community." "Hatred in any, form--- will not be tolerated", sounds like a government policy of controlling peoples' emotions, thoughts and attitudes towards islam. Under these conditions the people will end up hating the government itself, and usher in a new one. And the sooner the better, because Canada is deep in trouble with these liberals in charge.
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