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| Why is Canada creating its own Islamic extremists |
| 2006-06-05 |
| They are young, militant and Canadian. And according to senior counterterrorism authorities, they have been plotting large-scale terrorist attacks on Canadian soil. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service acknowledged this week it has been investigating groups of "homegrown" extremists. In candid testimony to the Senate national security committee, the agency went on to say that these young followers of the "al-Qaeda ideology" have been plotting against targets within Canada. "They are not looking to Afghanistan, the U.K. or anywhere else," Jack Hooper, the CSIS Deputy Director of Operations, testified on Monday. The exact targets of these young terrorists were not revealed, but it is their profile that is most shocking: young Canadian Muslims who have somehow become radicalized while growing up in Canada. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 And I bet canucks are racist, too, and they discriminate when hiring or something. That's their argument, yes. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2006-06-05 20:50 |
| #5 It seems there may be several forces coming to play here. When some people are out of their religious "homeland", they get exra religious to make up for it. Then there are people who lack confidence. They get extra adversarial to make up for it. There are some people whose basic genetic makeup and personalities attract them to certain ideologies because what they get out of it makes them feel good about their life and/or death. Some are leaders, some are followers. There are people out there who know how to take advantage of this, either intentionally or unintentionally, and they take advantage of people who can't think for themselves. Some people seem to need to feel like they are getting revenge for being oppressed or whatever, consequences be damned. In one form or another, these people are going to be there no matter what. If not extremists working together so they can share each others victories and feel oppressed together, then perhaps petty or organized criminals. A large radical religious group would offer them plenty of social opportunities associated with their criminal behavior along with constant reinforcement and media exposure to bask in, whereas a criminal has a much smaller world. Radical Islam offers these people a wonderful opportunity that you can't get anywhere else these days, and it's portable! You can take it almost anywhere in the world and feel just as oppressed but hopeful! And they can always fall back on the moderate Islamists so they feel they have an even larger group who are behind them. Now if we could just get the moderate Islamists to turn them in more often . . . . :-( |
| Posted by: grb 2006-06-05 17:50 |
| #4 Countries don't create 'Islamic extremists'. Islam does. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-06-05 11:31 |
| #3 Yes, Mr. Gromgoru, theses canadian imperialists are paying for all thoses muslim countries they looted and deprived of their Dignity while they were colonizing them. And I bet canucks are racist, too, and they discriminate when hiring or something. "Although Muslims worldwide are faced with globalization and modernization, young Muslims growing up in secular Western societies, in which Islam is just one more religious and cultural movement, are much more acutely confronted with problems of existential and religious orientation." These youths may turn to the Koran for guidance, but lacking strong Muslim cultural roots and sometimes ignorant of true Islamic teachings, they can fall into the trap of believing that to be "good Muslims," they must adhere to extremist interpretations of the faith, it says. I'm too dumb to know if the current "revolutionary islam" (muslim brotherhood, salafists, khomeinists) is more political than religious, but even with the little I've read, I have no doubt at all than far from straying from islam's tenets, theses Pious Moderate Muslim boyz were in fact following it quite closely. The first part has some truth, though; of course, if the western model/set of values was not as denigred and weakened from the inside by multiculturalists and neoleftists, then perhaps they might be tempted to join modernity and truly assimilate into their host society... but how coul you wish to join a society which loathes itself (despite its evident success by any historical standards), while your own tradition sez it is inferior by essence to yours? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-05 11:20 |
| #2 Bad, bad, Canadians. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-06-05 10:12 |
| #1 "The reasons for this radicalization are varied and include a general sense of anger at what is seen as oppression of Muslims throughout the world [and] parental influence." Intelligence agencies have been struggling to explain the "jihadization" of Western Muslim youths. What is driving some of them to embrace extremist violence against their own countries? I think it's time to write a serious letter to CSIS. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2006-06-05 02:00 |