Is terrorism Canada's latest export to the world?
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Jul 24, 2024 • 3 minute read
Once upon a time, this country shipped oil, gas, lumber, cars and fish to the world.
That seems to have changed.
Now, the latest commodity we’re exporting seems to be terrorism.
In two days, two incidents involving Canadians scorching with righteous terrorist fervour in faraway lands hit the news. One is dead, one is caged.
From the government? Nothing. No public apologies, no appalled mea culpa, no announcements that yes, maybe it’s time to obliterate the cancer metastasizing in our country.
Nothing.
Canada’s double black eye kicked off Sunday in Israel. Alberta resident Zachareah Adam Quraishi, 21, had flown to Israel on a tourist visa. No red flags? One day after arriving he took his activism to its pinnacle.
Armed with a knife and charging Israeli security guards at the Netiv Ha’asara community he screamed “Free Palestine!” Bullets sent him to the pavement hard. Destination: Morgue.
Israeli Police and ZAKA emergency service work at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack at the entrance to Netiv Haasara, near the Gaza border in southern Israel, Monday, July 22, 2024.
Israeli Police and ZAKA emergency service work at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack at the entrance to Netiv Haasara, near the Gaza border in southern Israel, Monday, July 22, 2024.
His father wrote on Facebook: “I’m processing….Prayers pls. He was an empathetic boy. I’m confused.”
A friend wrote: “May Allah forgive him and accept him in paradise.”
Perhaps more troubling is the case of 29-year-old former Edmonton gas jockey Khaled Hussein. He was convicted of terrorism-related charges at the Old Bailey in London.
And it isn’t as if there weren’t any warnings on this clown.
Choudary pleaded not guilty Monday March 25, 2024 in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges.
Choudary pleaded not guilty Monday March 25, 2024 in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges.
For starters, he was a big fanboy of British hate preacher Anjem Choudary, a devout supporter of Islamic State. Choudary would like to see the whole planet as one giant caliphate all under the warm embrace of Sharia law.
According to the Edmonton Journal, Hussein came to the attention of the Middle East Media Research Institute in 2021. Researchers said Hussein was a “staunch” supporter of terror web, Al-Muhajiroun.
From his keyboard compound, he unleashed a torrent of terror content on social media. The Journal said that in one video posted to Facebook, Hussein cheered the 2021 lifting of a court order banning Choudary from speaking publicly after he was released from jail on ISIS-related charges.
Islamic State even recruited their children, the Cubs of the Caliphate, to do some of the killing.
B’nai B’rith Canada researcher Richard Robertson said: “(The organization is) deeply troubled by the association of Canadians with groups such as (Al-Muhajiroun).
“They’re trying to portray themselves as essentially an Islamic charity, when they’ve been proscribed as an organization linked to terrorism.”
Hussein the acolyte was arrested last summer at Heathrow Airport in London along with Choudary. He had just arrived.
On Tuesday he was convicted of membership in a proscribed organization. Choudary, 57, was found guilty of directing a terrorist group.
One prosecutor said: “There are individuals that have conducted terrorist attacks or travelled for terrorist purposes as a result of Anjem Choudary’s radicalizing impact upon them.”
Like say, former gas jockey Khaled Hussein.
These two knuckleheads aren’t the only Canadians or residents to get weak-kneed over death cult theology. This terrifying trend has been unfolding since 9/11/2001, ramped up during the salad days of ISIS and is now resurgent.
Like crime, terrorism and radicalization is something that the Trudeau government simply does not take seriously.
The reason is the same: Domestic politics. Coveted voting blocks must not be offended in any manner.
And that will continue to be the case for at least the next 14 months.
Or until scores are butchered in a midday bomb blast at Union Station.
And maybe not even then.
bhunter@postmedia.com
@HunterTOSun
In two days, two incidents involving Canadians scorching with righteous terrorist fervour in faraway lands hit the news.
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