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The curious case of the recanting Islamist: What’s the deal with Mubin Shaikh? The Crown’s star witness in its case against the Mississauga jihadi laddies, he’s gone from being the snitch who ratted them out to the kafirs, to the guy who now seems determined to subvert the entire prosecution. On the witness stand yesterday, Mr. Shaikh recollected things differently than he had in previous statements to police, and appeared to be trying to protect one of the youths he had implicated in the alleged plot; in earlier testimony, he described the cadre's ring-leader as being a "few fries short of a Happy Meal"--meaning he was far too addlepated to conduct an effective attack.

So what’s going on? Is Shaikh:

·         someone who started out with the aim of thwarting the jihadis (because they were likely to make his “soft jihad” approach of inserting sharia into the Canadian body politic via other means, including sharia tribunals, that much harder to achieve), but who, at cruch-time, had second thoughts about being seen to side with the kafirs?;

·         a double-dealing rat who had always hoped to placate both sides?;

·         a single-dealing rat, who had every intention of torpedoing the Crown’s case right from the start?

Keep your eyes on the Brampton proceedings, where all may (or may not) be revealed.

Posted by: scaramouche at 12:03 | link | comments (2)

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