06 June 2006
Is the Religion of Islam Really a Peaceful Religion?
Before I begin to write about the terrorist activity within the Islamic Religion, I want to state for the record that I don't believe that all people who practice the Muslim faith are criminals and terrorists. Nor do I believe that ever Muslim Man, Woman, Boy, and Girl hates christians and Jews. However, I do believe that Islam itself is a hateful and sinister and even a diabolical evil that is bent on spreading its ethnic purity around the world. the Qur'an tells the follower of Aluah to destroy the Infideles, and according to the Qur'an the Infideles are those who do not adhear to the Practice of Islam.
I hask this question If Islam is such a friendly and loving religion, why is there so much hatred, violence, and Murderous activity being carried out by people who clame to be Muslim.
Below is an article from Canada's National Post
National Post
(2006-06-06)
News
"2 attacks planned: source: Truck bomb in Toronto, shots on crowd"
The young men charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets were allegedly planning two separate strikes -- one to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and the other to open fire on a crowd in a public place, the National Post has learned.
The conspirators were allegedly concentrating their efforts on their assigned missions and were in an advanced state of planning when authorities moved to arrest the men last weekend, sources said.
The national security component of the huge investigation was code-named Operation Claymore by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency, which was on specific alert as its office at the base of the CN Tower was allegedly among the list of prime targets.
The Toronto Stock Exchange was another of the plotters' possible targets for a massive bomb attack, according to law-enforcement sources.
Both attacks would have been devastating to the city of Toronto and, if carried out during business hours, significantly deadly.
Of the 17 people charged, five of them are considered juveniles by the court. Little information on the youths is publicly available regarding their charges.
Of the adults, documents filed in a Brampton, Ont., court suggest that a sub group of six was allegedly involved in the bomb plot.
Nine of them are also charged with training to carry out a terrorist activity.
A smaller group of four are charged with training or recruiting others into a terrorist plot, and three are charged with obtaining firearms.
All of them are charged with participating or contributing to a terrorist group.
The two men identified yesterday by the Post as the alleged terrorist leaders -- Fahim Ahmad, 21, and Zakaria Amara, 20 -- face the most charges. Mr. Ahmad, in fact, is the only one to be charged with all six of the terrorism charges.
Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Amara are joined in being charged with the bomb plot by Asad Ansari, 21, Shareef Abdelhaleem, 30, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, and Saad Khalid, 19.
Mr. Ahmad is also charged along with Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, with importing a firearm and ammunition for the benefit of a terrorist group and providing weapons to facilitate a terrorist activity.
Mr. Dirie and Mr. Mohamed were arrested for gun smuggling at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ont., last Aug. 13. They are incarcerated in separate Kingston prisons after earlier pleading guilty to gun offences.
Charged alongside Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Amara with recruiting or providing training to someone to participate in carrying out a terrorist activity are Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, and Steven Vikash Chand, 25, also known as Abdul Shakur, who converted to Islam from Hinduism.
All of the accused are expected to appear in court this morning. Security is expected to be intense. For their first appearance on Saturday, more than 30 tactical officers ringed the courthouse, a helicopter hovered overheard, and rooftop snipers and bomb-sniffing dogs watched those being frisked by court officers and Peel Regional Police officers.
Lawyers for a number of the accused men complained yesterday of the poor treatment their clients have been receiving since their arrest.
"My clients are being denied visits from their family. The family members are being denied access to them. I expected I will be able to get access to my clients after tomorrow's appearance," said Anser Farooq, a lawyer for at least three of the accused men.
Police seized firearms, computer hard drives, camouflage clothing, an electronic detonator and three tonnes of ammonium nitrate during raids that started on Friday.
The RCMP, which had been monitoring the group, switched a load of fertilizer -- which the conspirators allegedly believed to be 34-0-0 grade fertilizer, the best for making explosives -- with a benign substance before it was delivered to the suspects.
After the controlled delivery, heavily armed police fanned out throughout the Greater Toronto Area to arrest their targets.
The two men who were the alleged leaders, Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Amara, had been followers of Mr. Jamal, a senior member of the Ar-Rahman Islamic Centre in Mississauga. Six other of the accused also attended the Ar-Rahman centre. The facility, in a strip mall in Mississauga, was the focus of intense international media attention yesterday.
Stewart Bell and Adrian Humphreys; with files from Peter Brieger
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I hask this question If Islam is such a friendly and loving religion, why is there so much hatred, violence, and Murderous activity being carried out by people who clame to be Muslim.
Below is an article from Canada's National Post
National Post
(2006-06-06)
News
"2 attacks planned: source: Truck bomb in Toronto, shots on crowd"
The young men charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets were allegedly planning two separate strikes -- one to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and the other to open fire on a crowd in a public place, the National Post has learned.
The conspirators were allegedly concentrating their efforts on their assigned missions and were in an advanced state of planning when authorities moved to arrest the men last weekend, sources said.
The national security component of the huge investigation was code-named Operation Claymore by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency, which was on specific alert as its office at the base of the CN Tower was allegedly among the list of prime targets.
The Toronto Stock Exchange was another of the plotters' possible targets for a massive bomb attack, according to law-enforcement sources.
Both attacks would have been devastating to the city of Toronto and, if carried out during business hours, significantly deadly.
Of the 17 people charged, five of them are considered juveniles by the court. Little information on the youths is publicly available regarding their charges.
Of the adults, documents filed in a Brampton, Ont., court suggest that a sub group of six was allegedly involved in the bomb plot.
Nine of them are also charged with training to carry out a terrorist activity.
A smaller group of four are charged with training or recruiting others into a terrorist plot, and three are charged with obtaining firearms.
All of them are charged with participating or contributing to a terrorist group.
The two men identified yesterday by the Post as the alleged terrorist leaders -- Fahim Ahmad, 21, and Zakaria Amara, 20 -- face the most charges. Mr. Ahmad, in fact, is the only one to be charged with all six of the terrorism charges.
Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Amara are joined in being charged with the bomb plot by Asad Ansari, 21, Shareef Abdelhaleem, 30, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, and Saad Khalid, 19.
Mr. Ahmad is also charged along with Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, with importing a firearm and ammunition for the benefit of a terrorist group and providing weapons to facilitate a terrorist activity.
Mr. Dirie and Mr. Mohamed were arrested for gun smuggling at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ont., last Aug. 13. They are incarcerated in separate Kingston prisons after earlier pleading guilty to gun offences.
Charged alongside Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Amara with recruiting or providing training to someone to participate in carrying out a terrorist activity are Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, and Steven Vikash Chand, 25, also known as Abdul Shakur, who converted to Islam from Hinduism.
All of the accused are expected to appear in court this morning. Security is expected to be intense. For their first appearance on Saturday, more than 30 tactical officers ringed the courthouse, a helicopter hovered overheard, and rooftop snipers and bomb-sniffing dogs watched those being frisked by court officers and Peel Regional Police officers.
Lawyers for a number of the accused men complained yesterday of the poor treatment their clients have been receiving since their arrest.
"My clients are being denied visits from their family. The family members are being denied access to them. I expected I will be able to get access to my clients after tomorrow's appearance," said Anser Farooq, a lawyer for at least three of the accused men.
Police seized firearms, computer hard drives, camouflage clothing, an electronic detonator and three tonnes of ammonium nitrate during raids that started on Friday.
The RCMP, which had been monitoring the group, switched a load of fertilizer -- which the conspirators allegedly believed to be 34-0-0 grade fertilizer, the best for making explosives -- with a benign substance before it was delivered to the suspects.
After the controlled delivery, heavily armed police fanned out throughout the Greater Toronto Area to arrest their targets.
The two men who were the alleged leaders, Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Amara, had been followers of Mr. Jamal, a senior member of the Ar-Rahman Islamic Centre in Mississauga. Six other of the accused also attended the Ar-Rahman centre. The facility, in a strip mall in Mississauga, was the focus of intense international media attention yesterday.
Stewart Bell and Adrian Humphreys; with files from Peter Brieger
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