Yeh well when someone says that they follow "Sufism, which rejects the ideology of Jihad"....or that the Muslim community should be blamed for the 17 Muslim kids who are accused of attempting to bomb the CN tower - this is what he is referring to by the way if you didn't know...then I think it's pretty clear as to if he's blaming Muslims for allowing "extremism" to operate within their mosques. What you guys are saying is basically that he did a good thing because he's fighting terrorism. That's what it may appear like, but if you knew his reputation in Toronto, you would know that he is a "Faykh" rather than a "Shaykh."
I just did a simple search on google which gives this:
"They would enter into the mosque to pray, and they would pray in a very aggressive manner, and they would come in military fatigues and military touques and stuff. It looked to me that they were watching a lot of those Chechnyan jihad videos online and stuff."
Amiruddin is a teacher of Sufism, a traditional brand of Islam that rejects the ideology of jihad. Amiruddin says the group was seduced by hardline propaganda financed by the Saudi government and promoting a strict, ******* brand of Islam.
He says the Saudis have flooded Canada with free Qur'ans, laced with jihadist commentary.
"In the back of these Qur'ans that are being published in Saudi Arabia, you have basically essays on the need for offensive jihad and the legitimacy of offensive jihad and things like that. Very alarming stuff," he said.
Amiruddin said many mainstream Muslim organizations in Canada are really part of the problem, standing by as extremist propaganda spreads in the mosques.
Recruiting young teens
Amiruddin says Khalid underwent a rapid transition from a clean-cut Canadian teenager to a long-haired, radicalized introvert.
He says the young men would pray by themselves, and try to recruit younger teens to the fundamentalist ******* view.
Amiruddin says Khalid stopped coming to the mosque after he befriended 43-year-old Qayyum Abdul Jamal, another key suspect, who once preached that Canadian forces were in Afghanistan to rape Muslim women.
Amiruddin also has a theory as to why Khalid may have been open to such influences.
"His mother passed away and let's say within the first month of his mom passing away, his girlfriend, who was not Muslim, dumped him. And then from that within a year you have this radical turnaround right? Even Fahim Ahmad, he was in love with a girl who constantly rejected him, right? Maybe he was just looking for love? I can't say for certain, but this was something I found common with these young guys."
