...you can bet it's time to wake up!
Assalaam Mosque Association president Abdulhakim Moalimishak said mainstream mosques are increasingly being challenged by extremists.
“I would not say this is an isolated incident. I would say there are groups out there that are trying to have a foothold in Islamic centres."
Moalimishak said extremists are taking advantage of the open-doors tradition of mosques and that mosques need help from the wider society to counter that threat.
"We came from war zones, we came from conflicts that we do not want to replicate in this great country of ours.… We do not want these places to be places of politics, of foreign agendas, and of groups who have no interest in co-existence."
Give this guy a pat on the back! He has put himself at considerable risk for saying this. He is actually telling our government to smarten up.
ReplyDeletet will all be okay when justin is in charge all will be peace and hapiness
DeleteFinally moderate muslims start to speak out. Too bad they hadn't started doing it on September the 12th 2001.
ReplyDeleteNow all we have to wait for is the rest of moderate Canada to start doing the same thing.
DeleteI think we should stop saying "moderate" Muslims and start saying "law-abiding" or "peaceful" or maybe "nice". "Moderate" brings to mind an IED that hasn't been detonated yet.
DeleteAt the same time, we should also change "extremist" to "dangerous" or "crazy" or something else that we would naturally apply to the rest of our society. Simply being Muslim shouldn't be a excuse to have particular classifications of "moderate" or "extreme".
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