Toronto terror cell broken

Update: CTV reports on the sparce news conference at 10 am this morning - 12 adults and 5 youths have been taken into custody along with 300 tonnes (not kilos) of 'farmer's explosives' - otherwise known as amonium nitrate. I'm sure the youths were recruited because they are taking advantage of the youth justice system in Ontario and the restrictions in the Criminal Code on charging youths the same as adults. But it is most likely these kids were 'brainwashed' starting with their parents, their local Islamic community and other propagandists - which would make them ripe for the picking. The majority lived in Mississauga...don't even start me on that part of Ontario...

From this morning...

The RCMP, Durhan, Peel, York and Toronto police have rounded up over what is reported as more than a dozen terror adherants and interfered with their plot to attack Ontario targets.

According to The National Post story - 4 of them are Algerian and involved with the Salafist Group for Call and Combat - a radical Sunni Muslim group seeking to establish an Islamist government in Algeria. The National Post also has this report from the CSIS on 'homegrown terrorism' - which includes converts for their ability to pass detection.


RCMP has commented to the press that those arrested have been raised in Ontario or have been living here for some time. One of the Algerians came to Canada on a fake Saudi passport in August 1998.

More two cents:

It's not really surprising that there are Algerians part of this capture - I've met a number of them that had left Algeria because the government was "going to kill them" for practicing Islam. But the Islam they practiced was far to extreme to be accepted psychologically by the broader Islamic community in Ontario.

Having been around a few of these guys I had pressure put on me for listening to Algerian or any other kind of music that wasn't 'Islamic' (I should only listen to the duff - an ancient form of Islamic drumming listened to by the Prophet in circa 600 A.D.); going to visit and celebrate Christmas with my 'Christian'* family (that day my car was broken into, the window smashed and my car stereo stolen, traumatizing my 'Christian'* son. *The Salafist's emphasis); I couldn't write poetry, draw or paint ( I drew a stylized bird for an Islamic poster and I was told by a Canadian convert that I couldn't do that - it was haram - which basically means 'illegal' in Islamic law); or not following Islam to the letter of Islamic law (sharia) - which usually was interpreted by these guys on the extreme side - to the point where it became a joke.

One of these Algerians had a peace bond put on him because he was threatening another Muslim in a mosque with a knife because the man was using prayer beads. This same guy would also point out all the Sufi's walking down the street since to Salafist Muslims - as to Salafists, Sufi's are evil.

As I have mentioned in numerous posts on this blog - the propaganda was overwhelming against the Jewish community - mostly against Israel - so Palestinian propaganda was strong amongst some in the community - but I didn't noticed it as much within the Algerian Muslim community. The Algerians that usually had a strong North African, Somali and Sudanese following, dictated a really oppressive form of Islam - even more than the Sudanese Salafist interpretation.

As has been pointed out on this blog and supported by other less extreme Muslims, there are those in the community that teach their kids to support fundamentalist Islam - usually through home schooling or Islamic schools (such as the one the Algerians in London Ontario ran) - which leaves those children, especially boys, an outlet as they get older. Instead of playing video games - they can experience the real thing - a Jihad.

That is the ritual of manhood in extreme Salafist Islam. This leaves them wide open to the recruiters that come and go into the mosques or propagandize at meetings encouraging the perfectness of Islam at many meetings and gatherings held at various institutions - usually universities.

Why universities? Because those who are familiar with the CIA infiltrating campuses in the 1960's to spy on those in the anti-war movement - know that the CSIS's mandate is not to infiltrate Canadian campuses. This leaves Islamic groups and their propaganda to game momentum in this venue.

These things are a reality - it's not that there is the commonly believed conspiracy to destroy Islam by even the less devout Muslims - this conspiracy theory is a reality of Islamist propaganda.

But what Christian would support the mass murder of innocent victims because of the perception that, for sake of making a point - if we can't force people to practice Christianity or Islam in this case, the way we want (the way it was practiced in 600 A.D.) - and which isn't supported by our country's leadership (as in the case of Algeria) - then the whole world is against us so we have to fight them in a global jihad?