“Left-leaning politicians… [assume that] if the person has not personally advocated or engaged in violence, then no problem. To put it mildly, that misses the point.”

by Mark Tapson

 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped celebrate Eid at a gender-segregated mosque Monday morning whose imam is a member of a group designated as a terrorist organization.

According to the Toronto Sun, Samy Metwally, the lead imam at the Ottawa Muslim Association, is a “a member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS),” according to the mosque’s website. In 2014 the United Arab Emirates placed the group on its list of designated terrorist organizations. Metwally, who graduated from the Sunni Al-Azhar University in Egypt and is a member of the Council of Imams of Ottawa-Gatineau, is also described as a “senior Sharia researcher.”

Islamic studies scholar Daniel Pipes told the Sun that “IUMS was founded by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading ideologue and a notorious figure who, among other accomplishments, was for many years banned from entering France and endorsed the murder of Israelis.”

The Muslim Brotherhood is also designated a terrorist organization by at least half a dozen countries globally, though not in Canada, of course, because Western countries are very slow to pick up on these obvious security matters.

The IUMS website posts various theological and political messages from al-Qaradawi in English. In a call for Syrian rebel groups to halt their infighting, for example, he writes: “Allah Almighty has specified you to carry the banner of jihad, and to defend Islam, and to protect the sanctity of Muslims.”

Trudeau was at the Ottawa mosque to give remarks celebrating the Islamic holiday Eid. The baby-faced, Kumbiyah-preaching, head-in-the-sand Trudeau is, as the Sun puts it, “immensely popular with Muslims, the majority of whom voted Liberal.” Quelle surprise.

Pipes explained to the Sun the problem with Trudeau’s visit:

“That PM Trudeau went to an IUMS-associated mosque is typical of left-leaning politicians, who apply a crude violence filter: if the person has not personally advocated or engaged in violence, then no problem. To put it mildly, that misses the point.”

To put it mildly.

 

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