An overview of radical positions taken by Muslim scholars endorsed by the National Council of Canadian Muslims in its so-called anti-terrorism booklet
Summary
SIRAJ WAHAJ: Converting to Islam youth who felt excluded, and eventually arming them with Uzi submachine guns so that they can wage jihad in U.S. streets (Point de Bascule – Muslim Mafia / pp. 136-137)
JAMAL BADAWI: Muslims should become judges in North America and take advantage of their influential positions in order to stop applying current legal provisions that are incompatible with sharia
ABDALLAH IDRIS ALI: Leader of an organization involved in the funding of a terrorist organization in India
MUHAMMAD IQBAL MASOOD NADVI: An advisor to the NCCM close to the Jamaat-e-Islami
INGRID MATTSON: Praising Muslim scholar Syed Maududi who advocated the destruction of all non-Muslim states and governments from the face of the earth
ZAID SHAKIR: “If better organized, Muslims could take over the U.S. in a very short period of time.”
HAMZA YUSUF: His “teacher” Abdullah Bin Bayyah recommends using charitable donations to fund terrorism
YUSUF BADAT: Blaming the internet for the radicalization of young Muslims while disseminating around him books by Maududi that praise jihad and Islamic takeover
HAMID SLIMI: Recommending a Saudi Koran that defines jihad as an “Islamic Holy War… with full force of numbers and weaponry… by [which] Islam is established [and] Allah’s Word is made superior”
IHSAN BAGBY: “Ultimately we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country [the U.S.] because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.” (The Muslims of America, p.115)
Introduction
On September 29, 2014, Ihsaan Gardee and Shahina Siddiqui released a booklet entitled United against terrorism on behalf of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and the Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA). Ihsaan Gardee is NCCM Executive Director. One page 1 of the booklet, ISSA President (and NCCM Director) Shahina Siddiqui, NCCM Vice Chair Khalid Elgazzaar (sic), and NCCM Human Rights Coordinator Amy Awad, are listed among the contributors to the document.
The booklet United against terrorism was released at the Winnipeg Grand Mosque after a “14-month joint effort by the NCCM, the ISSA and the RCMP.” On June 14, 2013, these three organizations had launched the process that led to the booklet by holding a conference entitled Stand united against terrorism at the same mosque in Winnipeg. In the announcement of the 2013 conference, the NCCM was identified by its former name CAIR-CAN.
Although the RCMP was involved in the 2013 conference and in the drafting of the booklet (one of its employees is identified as a contributor on page 1), Ottawa RCMP headquarters put an end to the involvement of their Manitoba officers in this “bridge building” activity shortly before the launch of the booklet. On September 30, 2014, the RCMP issued a press release to explain its position: “After a final review of the handbook, the RCMP could not support the adversarial tone set by elements of the booklet and therefore directed RCMP Manitoba not to proceed with this initiative.”
Point de Bascule (October 1, 2014): The RCMP throws the so-called anti-terrorism booklet back at the National Council of Canadian Muslims and its Islamist allies
National Council of Canadian Muslims: “Whom do we consult to gain an accurate understanding of our faith?”
One highlight of the booklet released by the NCCM and the ISSA is a list of 13 North America-based Muslim scholars whom they endorse and promote for their “good understanding of life and Islam in North America.” On page 13, the NCCM and the ISSA declare that they consult these scholars “to gain an accurate understanding” of Islam.
In what follows, Point de Bascule presents some of the radical positions taken by ten of these scholars in the past.
Far from being “voices of reason, compassion, mutual respect and pluralism” (page 2), many scholars endorsed in the document have taken positions that are indistinguishable from those defended by the “extremist Muslims” (page 14) whom the booklet pretends to oppose. 
Excerpt reproduced from the booklet released by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and the Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA) on September 29, 2014 in Winnipeg. On page 13, the booklet contains a list of Muslim scholars whom these organizations consult “to gain an accurate understanding” of Islam.
Dr. Ingrid Mattison / sic – Mattson
Sheikh Zaid Shakir
Sheikh Humza Yusuf
Dr. Jamal Badawi
Dr. Iqbal Nadawi / sic – Nadvi
Sheikh Siraj Wahaj
Dr. Ihsan Bagby
Sheikh Abdallah Idris Ali
Imam Ahmed Kutty
Imam [Hamid] Slimi
Imam Yusuf Badat
Ustad Nouman Ali Khan
Imam Sikander Hashmi
SIRAJ WAHAJ: Converting to Islam youth who feel excluded, and eventually arming them with Uzi submachine guns so that they can wage jihad in U.S. streets
In a 1992 sermon given shortly after the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Siraj Wahhaj advocated harnessing street violence in the United States for the benefit of Islam. He invited his supporters to convert youth who felt excluded, and eventually to arm them with Uzi submachine guns so that they could wage jihad in U.S. streets. (Point de Bascule – Muslim Mafia / pp. 136-137)
The NCCM has been promoting Siraj Wahhaj as a model since its early days. Wahhaj was the main speaker at a CAIR-CAN fundraiser organized in Calgary in 2003. Until July 2013, the NCCM was known as CAIR-CAN.
In 1997, Shahina Siddiqui, the main author of the so-called ‘anti-terrorism’ NCCM booklet, and Siraj Wahhaj organized a 1-month long retreat in Winnipeg. Many radical Muslim speakers were invited to train a group of Muslim student leaders affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the first organization created by the Muslim Brotherhood after it settled in North America in the early sixties. A 2007 NYPD report describes the MSA as an “incubator for radicalism” (p. 68 – Archives PdeB).
Siraj Wahhaj was the first Muslim to give an invocation (opening prayer) to the U.S. Congress in 1991. This fact was brought up by Saudi Arabia in the past and by the RIS convention this year in order to demonstrate the prestige and the authority of Wahhaj in the Muslim community. What Wahhaj’s promoters refrain from mentioning, however, is what he said about the United States before and after giving his invocation to Congress. A video excerpt from the movie The Grand Deception, released in 2013 by Steven Emerson, features Siraj Wahhaj describing the American pledge of allegiance as “bullshit” in 1982, and calling the United States “a garbage can… filthy, filthy and sick” in 1995.
JAMAL BADAWI: Muslims should become judges in North America and take advantage of their influential positions in order to stop applying current legal provisions that are incompatible with sharia
In the early 2000s, Jamal Badawi advocated that Muslims should accept to become judges and civil servants in non-Muslim societies and take advantage of their influential positions in order to stop applying current legal provisions that are incompatible with sharia. In an internal Muslim Brotherhood memorandum (point 20), Badawi was identified as a leader of the network in North America. This document was produced for evidentiary purposes in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial that led to the conviction of all those who were accused of terrorism financing. The memorandum summarizes the Muslim Brotherhood’s mission in North America:
Point 4.4 The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
In 2004, while Jamal Badawi was on the Board of directors of the Muslim Association of Canada, this Muslim Brotherhood front group publicly endorsed Hamas in spite of the fact that Hamas had been added to a list of outlawed terrorist organizations by the government of Canada more than a year before. The Hamas’s charter (article 2) presents the organization as a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza.
After the RCMP refused to endorse the NCCM booklet, Tarek Fatah highlighted on Twitter that Jamal Badawi wants sharia to become the law of the land in Canada and he linked to a video in which Badawi expands on his ambitions for the country.
Jamal Badawi was on the NCCM Board of Directors at least from 2001 to 2013. In 2004, the NCCM Executive Director presented Jamal Badawi to a Canadian Senate Committee as “perhaps one of the best North American Islamic scholars, if not the premier.”
Tarek Fatah: No wonder @RCMPgrcPolice dumped Islamist book. Jamal Badawi, promoted in the book wants Sharia as the law in Canada.
https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/517209107179536384
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GKPdUKTwZZQ
ABDALLAH IDRIS ALI: Leader of an organization involved in the funding of a terrorist organization in India
Abdallah Idris Ali has been Indiana-based ISNA President for 5 years (1992-1997), the ISNA Canada Islamic School principal for 10 years, a member of the North American Islamic Trust / NAIT Board, etc. According to its own website, NAIT manages 325 properties in 42 American states. In 2004, the Boston Globe reported that, according to U.S. law enforcement officials, mosques managed by NAIT pursue “especially radical agendas.”
In the most recent reports available on the Canada Revenue Agency’s website, Abdallah Idris Ali is listed as Secretary General of three ISNA-Canada’s components.
Islamic Society of North America / 2013 Board also 2012
Canadian Islamic Trust Foundation / 2013 Board also 2012
ISNA Development Foundation / 2012 Board
In 2013, the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the ISNA Development Foundation’s charitable status after coming to the conclusion that it provided tax receipts to a non-charitable entity collecting money for a Jamaat-e-Islami-linked terrorist organization in India.
In a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood internal memorandum, ISNA and NAIT are listed as key members of the Muslim Brotherhood North American network. Here is how the memorandum describes the mission of ISNA, NAIT and other Brotherhood organizations in the U.S.:
Point 4.4 The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
This memorandum was produced for evidentiary purposes in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial that led to the conviction of all those who were accused of terrorism financing.
In the 2009 case United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (Section IV), U.S. Judge Jorge Solis stated that: “The [U.S.] government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT […] with Hamas.”
Canada Revenue Agency’s website
https://archive.today/Wol0x
MUHAMMAD IQBAL MASOOD NADVI: An advisor to the NCCM close to the Jamaat-e-Islami
His name is spelled Nadawi in the NCCM booklet. Iqbal Nadvi was born in India in the late forties (the Calgary Herald stated that Nadvi was 54 on October 31, 2003) and went to study in Saudi Arabia in the seventies. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Islamic Law at the Ummal Qura University (Makkah) in 1991, he took a teaching position in Riyadh. He moved to Canada later in the nineties and became the Imam of the Islamic Centre managed by the Muslim Association of Calgary in 1998. He moved to Ontario in 2004 and became Director of the Al-Falah Islamic School in Oakville. This school is located at ICNA-Canada’s head office. In June 2013, Nadvi was elected Chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams for a 3-year mandate.
On March 14, 2014, Iqbal Nadvi was back in India to give the Friday sermon at a mosque controlled by the Jamaat-e-Islami in New Delhi. The video of the event is available on JEI India’s YouTube channel (also Archive.Today).
The JEI was founded by Syed Maududi (1903-1979) in 1941 in India. After the partition of India, Maududi moved to Pakistan. The JEI is a close ally of the Muslim Brotherhood and it pursues the same totalitarian objectives, mostly in Southeast Asia (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh). It is also active in countries where its supporters have migrated.
In his book Jihad in Islam, Syed Maududi clearly summarized the mission of Islam, as understood by his supporters whether they are in Pakistan, India, or in Canada:
Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation that rules it. […] Islam requires the earth – not just a portion – but the whole planet.
A 2000 Canadian immigration case highlighted that Maududi (spelled Mawdudi in this case) justified slavery and discrimination against non-Muslims.
The same year, in a different case, Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board refused to grant refugee status to a JEI activist because he had been involved in crimes (involving firearms) in the course of his activities with the JEI in Pakistan. The Board’s decision presented the JEI as “The best organized of the Islamic fundamentalist movements, well endowed with funds,” before adding that “A major activity of the Jamaat-i-Islami is training Kashmiri youths for guerilla war.”
In 2011, Iqbal Nadvi was President of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization pursuing the Jamaat-e-Islami’s objectives in Canada and in the United States. According to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), that year ICNA received money from the ISNA Development Foundation (IDF). Two years later, the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the IDF’s charitable status after concluding that it provided tax receipts to a non-charitable entity collecting money for a Jamaat-e-Islami-linked terrorist organization in India.
Records available on the Canada Revenue Agency’s website present Iqbal Masood Nadvi as ICNA’s President in 2011 and 2010, and as a Director of the organization in 2009, 2005, 2004, and possibly in 2000 (as Masood Iqbal Nadull / Religious scholar).
The close relationship between ICNA and the JEI is not contested. It has been highlighted by opponents of the organization, such as The Investigative Project on Terrorism and by ICNA’s fellow travellers, such as John Esposito (2009 – 2012) in his Dictionary of Islam.
As part of its mission of proselytism (dawah), ICNA distributes Syed Maududi’s books in Canada. In 2012, Sun TV reported that the book Jihad in Islam, promoting a worldwide Islamic revolution, was being distributed by ICNA in Canada.
In the 2012 audit that led to the revocation of the Saudi World Assembly of Muslim Youth / WAMY’s charitable status for its funding of terrorism, the Canada Revenue Agency noted that one of Maududi’s books that had been published by WAMY in the past, Towards Understanding Islam (also Archive.Today), “contains several paragraphs that appear to present an extremist, militant interpretation of the concept of jihad.” The book explains, among other things, the distinction between offensive jihad and defensive jihad and its implications for Muslims. This book is recommended on various ICNA’s websites (ICNA Book Service, ICNA Southern California Book Selection, etc.)
ICNA’s mission statement could have been directly copied from a JEI document. It calls for the “establishment of the Islamic system of life” in the world, “whether it pertains to beliefs, rituals and morals or to economic, social or political spheres.”
Another ICNA document stresses that “These words [Establishment of the Religion] include not only practicing the religion in individual and collective life and propagating its true teaching to others, but also striving to make this Deen [religion] a way of life for all.”
IPT NEWS (December 6, 2010): Hand Book Shows ICNA’s True Goals
In 2007, after Aqsa Parvez was killed by her father in Mississauga (Ontario) for refusing to wear the hijab (Islamic veil), Iqbal Nadvi said that “parents fail and bring shame upon themselves if a child chooses to abandon holy writings and not wear the hijab. It is their duty to convince their kids that this is part of their culture.”
In 2012, the Jamaat-e-Islami campaigned for a modification of the Constitution in Pakistan to make the hijab compulsory (The Express Tribune – JihadWatch).
Given Iqbal Nadvi’s close relationship with the Jamaat-e-Islami, the NCCM’s endorsement of Nadvi constitutes, in fact, an endorsement of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Like many other positions taken by the NCCM before, this stance invalidates NCCM’s claim to be a “non-partisan” organization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDk-Kf5yKe8
Archive.Today
While in India in March 2014, Muhammad Iqbal Nadvi gave the Friday sermon at a mosque controlled by the Jamaat-e-Islami in New Dehli.
INGRID MATTSON: Praising a Muslim scholar who advocated the destruction of all non-Muslim states and governments from the face of the earth
Her name is incorrectly spelled Mattison in the NCCM booklet. In 2000, at an ISNA conference, Ingrid Mattson was asked by a participant to suggest the best tafseer (Koranic commentary) available. Young Muslims Canada reported that she answered: “So far, probably the best work of Tafseer in English is by Maulana Abul A’la Maududi [aka Syed Maududi].” In another book, quoted above in this text, Maududi described the mission of Islam as being the “destr[uction of] all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam.”
In 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Ingrid Mattson defended Wahhabism in a CNN chat room, and presented it as a movement “analogous to the European protestant reformation.”
The 2007 NYPD report Radicalization in the West (page 17) stresses that Wahhabism is based on an “extreme intolerance and hostility towards unbelievers, including Jews, Christians, Hindus and Shiites,” and that “It provides the primary theological foundation for jihadi-Salafi causes and reduces the barriers to violence.” The NYPD report adds that “Contemporary Saudi (Wahhabi) scholars have provided the religious legitimacy for many of the arguments promoted by the jihadists”.
In the audit that led to the revocation of the Saudi World Assembly of Muslim Youth’s charitable status for its funding of Al Qaeda, the Canada Revenue Agency addressed the issue of terrorism funding by Saudi Wahhabi organizations.
ZAID SHAKIR: “If better organized, Muslims could take over the U.S. in a very short period of time.”
In the past, Zaid Shakir made clear that the Koran “gives no indication” that compromise is possible between Allah and “the false beliefs and systems innovated by man” and declared that if better organized, Muslims could “take over this country [the U.S.] …in a very short period of time. So, we’ve got a lot of foundational work to do and we must do if we’re serious about the task that is before us.”
Investigative Project on Terrorism: Profile of Zaid Shakir
HAMZA YUSUF: His “teacher” Abdullah Bin Bayyah recommends using charitable donations to fund terrorism
Two days before the 9/11 attacks, at a fundraiser for Jamil al-Amin, then on trial for murdering a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia, Hamza Yusuf claimed that al-Amin knew so much that he had been framed and jailed by the U.S. government that wanted to “silence” him. Al-Amin is considered a dangerous man, said Hamza Yusuf at the time, because he “will speak the truth.” Al-Amin was convicted for the murder of the officer a few months later.
At the same fundraiser, Yusuf also claimed that Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, already convicted in a conspiracy to bomb New York landmarks in the 1990s, had been unjustly tried.
According to a profile of Hamza Yusuf, published by The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Yusuf adapted to the new circumstances following the 9/11 attacks and started toning down his rhetoric. Hamza Yusuf can often be heard condemning terrorism, for example. His new approach has been adopted by many Muslim Brotherhood operatives in North America who have succeeded in convincing police organizations and other security agencies that they hold the key to stop radicalization in the Muslim community.
While making statements against terrorism, Hamza Yusuf has endorsed Abdullah Bin Bayyah as his “teacher.” In 2013, Yusuf introduced Bin Bayyah to Bill Gates in Abu Dhabi as a man whose mission is to cure ignorance.
For many years. Abdullah Bin Bayyah has been vice-president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an organization led by the Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide, Youssef Qaradawi. Although Qaradawi is forbidden from entering the United States because of his numerous statements in favour in terrorism in the past, his deputy was not only allowed in the U.S. but invited at the White House in 2013. In September 2014, President Obama quoted Bin Bayyah at the United Nations. After Bin Bayyah visited the White House, The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported many past statements made by Yusuf Hamza’s “teacher” favorable to armed jihad, including a fatwa dated January 19, 2012, in which Bin Bayyah stated that Muslims can satisfy their charitable obligations by giving money (zakat) to those who are engaged in armed jihad, so that they can “buy weapons” and fulfill other needs.
Bin Bayyah and the IUMS have express their support for Hamas on numerous occasions in the past. Aside from being engaged in the destruction of Israel (article 13), Hamas’s leaders have frequently advocated an Islamic conquest of the West (2006 – 2008 – 2011 – 2012). In 2011, for example, Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said on TV that Western civilization “will not be able to withstand the great and glorious Islam.” On July 16, 2013, Hamas threatened to launch terrorist attacks in countries where Israel’s embassies are located. Canada is among the potential targets, of course.
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https://archive.today/Wc0CB
Hamza Yusuf (right) introducing Abdullah Bin Bayyah (centre) to Bill Gates (left) at Etihad Towers (Abu Dhabi) in 2013: “You [Bill Gates] are trying to eliminate diseases of the body with vaccines and my teacher [Abdullah Bin Bayyah] is trying to eliminate diseases of ignorance with the vaccines of ideas!”
YUSUF BADAT: Blaming the internet for the radicalization of young Muslims while disseminating around him books by Maududi that praise jihad and Islamic takeover
Yusuf Badat is the main Imam and Director of Religious Affairs at the Islamic Foundation of Toronto. In August 2014, in an interview given to CBC Toronto, Badat attributed the radicalization of young Muslims to the internet (audio 1:00) and to radicals “quoting verses out of context” (audio 2:55).
Yet, while blaming foreign sources for the radicalization of young Muslims in Canada, Badat’s own Foundation uses all opportunities to promote Islamist supremacists, such as Maulana Abul A’la Maududi (aka Syed Maududi).
For many years, the City of Toronto has been organizing Doors Open Toronto, a city-wide festival giving “free, rare access to more than 155 architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings across Toronto.”
In 2014, the event took place at the end of May and Yusuf Badat’s Islamic Foundation mosque in Scarborough was recommended as a site worth visiting, mostly for its minaret. Tarek Fatah reported that, on arrival at the mosque, a visitor “found the organizers using the event not so much to showcase the architecture of the institution, as to offer free literature proselytizing about Islam, prohibited by the policies of Doors Open.”
One of the books on display was Towards Understanding Islam, written by Maulana Abul A’la Maududi, the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Indian subcontinent. Tarek Fatah highlights that, in the book, “Mawdudi exhorts Muslims to launch jihad against Islam’s oppressors, meaning armed struggle against non-Muslims,” and that he “labels Muslims who refuse the call to engage in armed jihad apostates … Jihad is as much a primary duty of the Muslims concerned as are daily prayers or fasting,” writes Maududi, before adding that “One who shirks it is a sinner. His very claim to being a Muslim is doubtful.”
In another book, Maududi also stated that “Islam requires the earth – not just a portion – but the whole planet.”
According to the Canada Revenue Agency, Yusuf Badat’s Islamic Foundation transferred $6,000 in 2012, and $12,000 in 2013 to the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization actively engaged in disseminating the ideas of the JEI founder in Canada.
HAMID SLIMI: Recommending a Saudi Koran that defines jihad as an “Islamic Holy War… with full force of numbers and weaponry… by [which] Islam is established [and] Allah’s Word is made superior”
During Omar Khadr’s trial in Guantanamo in 2008, Khadr’s defense team suggested that Toronto Imam Hamid Slimi was the ideal candidate to create a “religious rehabilitation” program to “build a bridge” between the pluralist Canadian society and Khadr’s terrorist past. The choice of Slimi was likely based on the fact that he wrote a book entitled Terrorism: An Islamic Perspective, in which he states that (page 41) “Islam does not condone or tolerate any terrorist acts including the killing of innocent people no matter what their faith is.”
The de-radicalization industry was pleased. However, as with all other scholars even remotely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, what Hamid Slimi writes and says must be “contextualized.” Very often, writings and speeches by Muslim scholars targeting a non-Muslim public have a different (if not opposite) content than what they write or say to a Muslim public.
Hamid Slimi states that (page 40) “Jihaad is a defensive measure in all cases not an offensive one.” However, in a version of the Koran recommended by Slimi in the bibliography of his book Terrorism, there is a definition of jihad that says exactly the opposite. The definition was added to clarify the meaning of the verse 2:190. Not surprisingly, jihad is presented as an armed offensive to impose Islam.
Hilali-Khan Koran (published by Maktaba Dar-us-salam in Saudi Arabia and recommended by Hamid Slimi)
(V. 2:190) Al-Jihad (Islamic Holy War) in Allah’s Cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars (on which it stands). By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior, […] and His Religion (Islam) is propagated. By abandoning Jihad (may Allah protect us from that) Islam is destroyed and the Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honour is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim, and he who tries to escape from this duty, or does not in his inner-most heart wish to fulfill this duty, dies with one of the qualities of a hypocrite.
The full page is archived on Point de Bascule.
This Koran was very possibly at the heart of the “de-radicalization” program that Hamid Slimi was planning for Omar Khadr. Hamid Slimi’s other definition of jihad coming from his book Terrorism, the one that presented jihad as a “defensive measure,” is simply a tool of deception to fool police and others in “outreach activities.”
In a 2008 interview, Hamid Slimi told the Toronto Star that “Blowing up people when they’re sleeping, putting a bomb in a pizzeria – that is not jihad.” Yet, in 2008, the International Muslims Organization (IMO), where Hamid Slimi is Imam, transferred $2,000 to Hamas’s fund collector IRFAN-Canada. Hamas is well known for its jihad operations against civilians. The suicide attack against the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001 was one of many such cases. IRFAN still had a charitable status in 2008, but warnings had already been issued by then-Opposition MP Stockwell Day in 2004, and in a U.S. trial in 2007 (subsection VIII) to the effect that IRFAN was a front for Hamas in Canada.
According to the Canada Revenue Agency, the main beneficiary of IMO’s money transfers has been Human Concern International (HCI): $85,000 (2005), $500 (2006), $26,000 (2007), $17,000 (2008), $19,300 (2009), $22,000 (2010), $13,600 (2011) and $13,000 (2012).
While he was fighting for al-Qaeda, Omar Khadr’s own father, Ahmed Said Khadr, led HCI’s branch in Pakistan. Over the years, HCI also transferred funds to the now-declared terrorist organization IRFAN-Canada ($29,700 in 2004) and sponsored numerous radical activities in Canada, including the visit of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad in 2008. That year, Canadian Immigration authorities refused to grant Ahmad a visa. In his book Jihad in Islam, JEI’s founder Syed Maududi clearly stated that “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation that rules it … Islam requires the earth – not just a portion – but the whole planet.”
Maududi’s books and the Hilali-Khan Koran recommended by Hamid Slimi are essential readings to understand what the NCCM and the ISSA mean when they highlight the “noble” aspect of jihad in their booklet (pp. 17 and 34).
IHSAN BAGBY: “Ultimately we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country [the U.S.] because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”
Ihsan Bagby considers that Muslims cannot be fully committed to the United States as long as sharia will not be the law of the land.
In the book The Muslims of America (p.115) edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Ihsan Bagby is quoted as saying: “Ultimately we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country [the U.S.] because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”
The statement, made by this scholar towards whom the NCCM turns for guidance, invalidates, of course, the claim made by the NCCM, in its handbook (page 7), that there is nothing wrong with Muslims having “dual loyalties.” Jamal Badawi, another scholar endorsed by the NCCM, also disproved the NCCM’s “dual loyalties” thesis in the early 2000s when he incited Muslims to become judges (and civil servants) in non-Muslim societies in order to take advantage of their influential positions to stop applying current legal provisions that are incompatible with sharia.
Ihsan Bagby has been a leader of many Muslim organizations in the United States, including two key Muslim Brotherhood fronts:
Member of the Council on American Islamic Relations / CAIR Board of Directors from 1995 to 2013
Director of ISNA’s Islamic Teaching Center from 1985 to 1991 and a board member of ISNA’s Leadership Development Center
In the 2009 case United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (Section IV), U.S. Judge Jorge Solis stated that “The [U.S.] government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA […] with Hamas.”
During Ihsan Bagby’s mandate on CAIR Board, the organization was designated as a co-conspirator in a 2008 terror trial that led to the conviction of all the accused. Shortly after, in 2009, the FBI took the decision to cut all links with CAIR. Here is an excerpt of a letter sent by the FBI Director responsible for agency Legislative Affairs and related Government Relations to inform about the decision taken by the FBI:
“As you know, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and the Palestine Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestine Committee and Hamas, which was designated as a terrorist organization in 1995. In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI.”
Hamas leaders have frequently advocated the Islamic conquest of the West in the past (2006 – 2008 – 2011 – 2012). In 2011, for example, Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said on TV that Western civilization “will not be able to withstand the great and glorious Islam.” Hamas is also engaged in the destruction of the state of Israel, of course, as stated in its charter. On July 16, 2013, Hamas threatened to launch terrorist attacks in countries where Israel embassies are located.
In a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood internal memorandum, ISNA (the other major MB front in which Bagby was involved) was listed as a key member of the Muslim Brotherhood North American network (#1 on the list). CAIR was not listed since it was founded three years later. The memorandum, referred to earlier in this text, describes the mission of ISNA and other Brotherhood organizations in the U.S. as “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within … so that … God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
In January 2014, during a controversy with the NCCM, Prime Minister Harper’s Director of Communications mentioned that the NCCM was linked with Hamas. Shortly after, the NCCM initiated legal procedures for a defamation suit.
The recent endorsement of Ihsan Bagby by the NCCM is just another example of the closeness that exists between Washington-based / Hamas-linked CAIR and the NCCM.
After the NCCM threatened to sue the Prime Minister and his Director of Communications, Point de Bascule highlighted three main links between the NCCM and Hamas.
The FIRST LINK derives from the endorsement given to Hamas in 2004 by Jamal Badawi and Wael Haddara while they were both on CAIR-CAN Board of Directors and on the Muslim Association of Canada Board. On March 22, 2004, the MAC issued a press release in which it openly supported Hamas. This endorsement of Hamas came more than one year after the Canadian government, Liberal back then, had added Hamas to a list of terrorist organizations.
The SECOND LINK between CAIR-CAN / NCCM and Hamas was revealed by analyst Jonathan Halevi. In a March 2014 article, he reproduced CAIR-CAN’s October 7, 2000 Action Alert urging its supporters to fund the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services (JFHS), a Hamas front in Canada at the time. Like CAIR-CAN, JFHS changed its name and became the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy Canada (IRFAN-Canada). In 2007, a U.S. tribunal (subsection VIII) stated that IRFAN and the Jerusalem Fund were one single entity collecting money for Hamas in Canada.
The THIRD LINK between the NCCM and Hamas involves the relationship of the NCCM with the Washington-based / Hamas-linked CAIR. The recent endorsement of long time CAIR Board member Ihasan Bagby by the NCCM is an illustration of this relationship. In 2000, the NCCM was created as the Canadian branch of the Washington-based CAIR under the name CAIR-CAN. CAIR-CAN became the NCCM only in July 2013.
The links between Washington-based CAIR and NCCM / CAIR-CAN can be established by relying on many of CAIR-CAN’s own documents. For example, a 2003 Journalist’s Guide to Islam, conceived by CAIR-CAN (p. 15), describes Washington-based / Hamas-linked CAIR as “CAIR-CAN’s parent organization” (p. 14). In December 2003, then CAIR-CAN Chair Sheema Khan swore an affidavit supporting Washington-based CAIR in a legal trade-mark battle stating that it “has direct control” over CAIR-CAN’s activities in Canada.
There are also numerous documents published by Washington-based / Hamas-linked CAIR identifying CAIR-CAN as one of its branches.
CAIR-CAN’s decision to rewrite history and portray itself as a distinct entity from Washington-based CAIR coincided with the designation of CAIR as an unindicted conspirator in the 2007 and 2008 U.S. terror trials and with the FBI’s decision to cut all contacts with CAIR later .
YUSUF ALI ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE KORAN: Jews are “apes and swine”
Aside from endorsing a dozen Muslim scholars in its booklet, the NCCM also recommends the Yusuf Ali English translation of the Koran. This very version of the Koran was pulled by the Los Angeles school board from the shelves of all its libraries in February 2002 because it contains many commentaries hostile to Jews that were added to complement the original content. For example: “The Jews blaspheme and mock, and because of their jealousy, the more they are taught, the more obstinate they become in their rebellion”. In other commentaries of the Yusuf Ali Koran, Jews are presented as “apes and swine.”
Joe Kaufman (Front Page Magazine – February 28, 2008): Return of the CAIR Quran
On September 27, 2003, the Calgary Herald announced that the NCCM (then called CAIR-CAN) had launched a pan-Canadian Library project in Calgary. Their goal was to supply several books and videos about Islam to a large number of Canadian public libraries. The Yusuf Ali version of the Koran was already promoted by the NCCM back then and included in the packages sent to these libraries.
In 2003, CAIR-CAN Executive Director told the Calgary Herald that Washington-based CAIR, CAIR-CAN’s parent organization (p. 14), had started the same program in the U.S. the year before. In 2002, an Arab website reported that Washington-based CAIR Library project was funded by Saudi billionaire prince Walid Bin Talal. Over the years, prince Bin Talal also funded many centres of Islamic studies in Western universities that have invariably become mouthpieces for the Islamist agenda.
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Further reading
Point de Bascule: File National Council of Canadian Muslims
