Do you think it’s time we stopped discussing root causes? Because the last time I checked, Canada was an obnoxiously multiculti, socialist-oriented nation replete with national healthcare and hate speech laws.
That didn’t seem to stop them from having several cells of homegrown terrorists try to blow up Canadian civilians. Why? Gee. Every one of the arrestees was Muslim. Can you think of a reason?
Police have arrested 17 people and foiled a series of terrorist attacks on targets in southern Ontario, the RCMP said today.
The RCMP have charged 12 Ontario men who were to appear in court later today in Brampton. The men range in age from 19 to 43, and are residents of Toronto, Mississauga and Kingston.
Five youths who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act have also been arrested and charged.
The announcement came at a news conference following a series of arrests Friday night on a group that the Mounties say posed a “real and serious threat.â€
In addition to the arrests, police recovered three tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used fertilizer used in the making of explosives.
“It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack,†said RCMP Asst. Commissioner Mike McDonell. “If I can put this in context for you, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people was completed with only one tonne of ammonium nitrate.â€
“This group posed a real and serious threat,†he added. “It had the capacity and intent to carry out these acts.
So let’s check the tally. Jihadis in London arrested yesterday. Jihadis in Canada arrested today.
Does anyone doubt that we are truly in a global terrorist war? WWIV has been ongoing since before 9/11, but 9/11 was the day it was announced to the world.
We have a long way to go. And the Cindy Sheehans of the world are not helping.
Update: It’s a worldwide terrorist conspiracy. No joke. Click the link. There are ties to terrorism arrests in United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh.
Say hello to WWIV.
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The citizens of the world can no longer afford the luxury of catering to the ‘sensibilities’ of religious folk – including Muslims.
There is only one way to attenuate the threat posed by militant Islam and that is to introduce doubt into the hearts and minds of ordinary Muslim believers.
Instead of side-stepping in fear of giving ‘offense’, strike at the very heart and soul of the problem.
And what is that? It’s the real ‘root cause’ – the Qur’an!
This fountainhead of fervour and discord, supposedly an exact word-for-word copy of tablets existing eternally in heaven:
is based on identifiable ‘fables’
is not worthy of faith, let alone lives.
To argue endlessly about what is meant by this word, or that word, or this idea, or that idea, is worse than pointless when the whole book can be, indeed has been, swept away by an even mildly rigorous scholarly examination.
Question the provenance and content of the Qur’an, publish fearlessly, and confidence in the Qur’an as the word of Allah will be severely shaken, just where it should be – in the hearts and minds of ordinary Muslims.
So, no, I don’t think we should stop talking about ‘root causes’.
I approved Vynette’s comment, but I should like to point you to her blog if you’d like to discuss the theological aspects she raises in it.
Religious discussions seem to bring out the worst in everyone here.
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I hope that people figure it out, but I am not real optimistic.
The grimly amusing thing is that Canada is big on multiculturalism and likes to contrast itself with the American melting pot idea. It’s as if the diversity office of a university took over cultural affairs for an entire country. The last prime minsiter even appointed as governor-general a Haitian immigrant whose devotion to the very idea of Canada is not especially strong.
The Canadians didn’t participate in the Iraq War and congratulated themselves no end on not doing so.
And then this. It didn’t insulate them, and I’d be willing to beat a substantial proportion of these terrorists are entirely home-grown. I’d like to think this wll cause the Canadian chattering classes to think things over, but I have no hope that it will.
Members of the chattering classes think? Oh come now, Alex, you know they can’t do that.
Excellent post. Right on the money.