Posted on 04/27/2008 9:45:29 AM PDT by nuconvert
Home-grown 'champion of Islam'
Stewart Bell, National Post
April 25, 2008
TORONTO -Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to "Support Our Troops," but he's not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.
From his apartment in Toronto, Mr. Khan has been posting messages on the Internet calling Osama bin Laden a "hero" and "champion of Islam."
The 23-year-old fundamentalist's online logo combines the black Taliban flag and the outline of an AK-47 above the "Support Our Troops" slogan.
Between sips of iced coffee at Tim Hortons, Mr. Khan explained that he is a supporter of the Taliban, as well as other armed Islamic groups.
" 'Support our Troops' means supporting the mujahideen [Muslim soldiers of God] who are fighting for their freedom and rights against illegal occupation in many, many places over the world like Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine and Somalia," he said later in an e-mail.
Views like these are becoming increasingly common in Western countries, Canada included, and they are worrying to governments concerned about radicalism and violence.
Mr. Khan is an Islamist, not a terrorist, but what most disturbs moderate Muslims are his harsh comments about those who do not subscribe to fundamentalist beliefs.
In his online postings, Mr. Khan calls Tarek Fatah, Irshad Manji and other moderates "apostates," and says that under Islamic law, the punishment for apostasy is death. The same goes for those who insult Islam.
"Behead her!!! And make a nice video and post it on YouTube," he writes about one "Islam basher." As for "Jews who support Zionism and Israel … since they are killing Palestinians … killing them is not bad … they deserve to die."
Elsewhere he writes, "Those who hate Islam and want to destroy is [sic] will have their fates decided by the swords of Muslims Inshallah [God willing]."
Mr. Khan said he was angry when he wrote these and did not mean anyone harm. He said he meant that those killing Palestinians deserve to die and that under Shariah law, the sentence for apostasy and insulting Islam is death.
But Mr. Fatah and other moderates say such expressions go too far, and are becoming all too common in Canada.
"In recent times, hundreds of Islamic radicals have settled in Canada," said Tahir Gora, a Pakistan-born writer who has been tackling the issue in his Hamilton Spectator columns.
"They are spreading hatred and extremism in the guise of freedom of expression. On the other hand, they put death penalties to those dissidents who challenge the traditional medieval way of Islam."
Mr. Gora heads the Canada Safety Think Tank, which monitors what he calls the growing Islamist radicalization in the country.
He wants Ottawa to take the issue more seriously and believes police should lay hate-crimes charges against extremists who pronounce death sentences on moderates like himself.
The government says it is trying to tackle the problem. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service's latest annual report listed radicalization as a top priority.
Terrorism cases before the courts in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa all concern allegations of violent plots motivated by Islamist extremism. And the RCMP said in January it was investigating a Bangladeshi-Canadian for what Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called "extremist rantings" that were "encouraging jihad and extolling the virtues of killing our Canadian soldiers."
Raised in a secular family in Karachi, Mr. Khan said he became a follower of the controversial Pakistani cleric Israr Ahmad and adopted his conservative Deobandi stream of Sunni Islam.
After graduating from Greenwich University in Karachi with a degree in business administration, Mr. Khan immigrated to Canada with his parents in 2006.
He is unemployed but said he hopes to complete an MBA.
He said in Canada he can openly preach views for which he would be jailed or tortured in Muslim countries. "And believe it or not, me and many Muslims like me are willing to migrate ASAP to an Islamic state as soon as it emerges," he said.
Intelligence expert Professor Wesley Wark said Mr. Khan's "odious" views raised the question of whether Canada needed to specifically outlaw the incitement of terrorism.
"There is sometimes a value in exposing views such as those of Mr. Khan in public, where ridicule can scrub them away," said Prof. Wark, a visiting research professor at the University of Ottawa.
> TORONTO -Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to “Support Our Troops,” but he’s not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.
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> From his apartment in Toronto, Mr. Khan has been posting messages on the Internet calling Osama bin Laden a “hero” and “champion of Islam.”
OK, I’m one Canadian born-and-raised who would have no objection to Mr Khan being renditioned to Gitmo or elsewhere. He has nothing to do with any Canada that I know of. If some fool made him into a Canadian Citizen then that was a criminal mistake. It ought to be corrected forthwith.
islam: The religion of choice if you are just too stupid for scientology
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“There are many Naeem Mohammed Khans hiding in Canada and other Western societies. Islamists who advocate jihad, Sharia and the defeat of the West. The very least we can do is see to it they do not harm our societies with with their brand of radicalism, which can extend to passive and active support of terrorism, proselytizing others to support their views and subverting the open society from within.”
Or, we can just simply shoot them. It’s easier, quicker, and cheaper. Shooting them is a lot milder and more humane than what they have in mind for us.
In Canada a Christian preacher cannot say that the homosexual
life style is sinful but this terrorist can get away with this? What gives?
Fundamentalist Islam is another attack on western civilization and capitalism, so it is an ally of political correctness for the moment, and must be condoned.
There. Now do you understand?
Naeem Muhammad Khan must be prpparing to run for the US Congress. Olympia Snowe, Suan Collins, Teddie Kennedy and Johnnie Kerry will welcome him to the senate as a fresh new thinker.
If the taliban and radical Islam is so fantastic, why isn't this shithead in Pakistan among his beloved brethren with the same arrested development. He's just another phony death cult worshiper who's pissed he can't compete in western society and especially among independent, outspoken, women to boot.
Yep. Thanks.
I'll personally buy this guy a one-way ticket to Iran, right now.
I seriously doubt he would accept.....
That would work also........
Good. That'll put 'em all in one place for easy disposal.
“willing to migrate ASAP to an Islamic state as soon as it emerges”
Apparently Saudi Arabia isn’t enough of an islamic state for him. If he’d switch to shiism, he could move to Iran.
Kinda obvious that the kid isn’t getting any.
Apparently the Saudi Yemeni and Sudanese hellholes are not Islamic enough...Why on earth do these perverts live here amongst the infidel Christians? How/Why do they stand us?
I suggest frontal lobotomies for all these shriekers.
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