Muslim malcontents . . .

THE NEWSPAPER YOU LOVE TO HATE, THE NATIONAL POST, has an article, "Rory Leishman: Calling out those who ignore Islamist extremists in our midst". It seems that some of our Canadian Islamics haven't been as anti-jihadist as maybe they should be.

Part of the answer can be found in some mainstream Muslim publications in Canada. For example, in July, Al Bilad, a monthly newspaper published in Arabic and English in London, Ont., featured a poem that glorifies an Islamist homicide bomber who pleads to her mother:

“Yumma, tell my son that I did not abandon him, never!
I did it for his freedom and our peoples [sic] right to be able to live free, forever!
Yumma, tell my husband that he will always be my all,
I know he understands and he knows why I took that call.”

Following the publication of this ode to terrorism in Al Bilad, all Canadians who are alert to the peril of home-grown radicalization should surely boycott the newspaper. Yet the current issue includes advertisements for Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party; Irene Mathyssen, NDP MP for London–Fanshawe; Khalil Ramal, Liberal MPP for London-Fanshawe; Jim Chahbar, Conservative candidate for London–Fanshawe; and Ed Holder, Conservative MP for London-West.

Home-grown Islamist extremists are also liable to draw inspiration from groups like the Muslim Association of Canada, a fundamentalist organization with chapters in 11 Canadian cities. MAC leaders state on their national website: “MAC adopts and strives to implement Islam … as understood in its contemporary context by the late Imam, Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Banna was one of the prime advocates of violent jihad in the 20th century. In Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Muslim Dissident, Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, notes: “Banna preached a dangerous mix of religion and violence…. He is not just the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, but he is also the source of modern fundamentalist politics in the Arab-Muslim world. His teachings evolved and mutated into the politics and terrorism of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.”

Marvelous. Simply frickin' marvelous. I sure hope CSIS has spiked every Islamic mosque and community center in Canada. When an ostensibly consensus-adhering outfit like the Muslim Association of Canada is actually preaching the twisted hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood and using our politicians like the politically-correct "useful idiots" they are, it is time to oversee just what is being preached, because Canadian Islamics can't be trusted to excise this nest of vipers from their midst. They either can't or won't — and that's not good enough. It should become a Canadian foreign policy goal to get an Islamic Reformation started.