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We’re doomed: The basis of my conclusion: the fact that Canadian kafirs—and not just the ones in the Jewstablishment—are so clueless about Islam and its teachings that they can’t see through the doublespeak of  “moderate” imam, Hamid Slimi. From the Toronto Star (my bolds):

There are international precedents for the job Hamid Slimi might soon be asked to do. There are precedents, yes, from Slimi's own life.

But Omar Khadr is Omar Khadr, and there is no precedent for him.

Khadr's military lawyer wants Slimi, a Toronto imam, to create a "religious rehabilitation" program for the 21-year-old Guantanamo detainee – to build a bridge between Canadian society and an alleged Al Qaeda operative raised in a family of radicals, shot three times in Afghanistan at age 15, imprisoned for six years, and possibly tortured.

For that job, there are no ready-to-use blueprints. Which may be why the lawyer has called on a man with a reputation as a bridge-builder.

In May, Slimi became the first Muslim to address Toronto's Neighbourhood Interfaith Group. He was invited by Bryan Beauchamp, its Anglican chair, who met him when both participated in a Habitat for Humanity project.

"That was a good starting point," Beauchamp says. "It was tangential, but important, because it indicated the type of guy he was."

"My involvement with him has been with – believe it or not – are you sitting? Organ donation," says Rabbi Reuven Bulka, co-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress and chair of the Trillium Gift of Life Network.

Morocco-born Slimi, 39, leads the International Muslims Organization, an Etobicoke mosque. He has two masters degrees, chairs the Canadian Council of Imams, hosts and produces television shows for his Faith of Life Network, and works with a dizzying array of interfaith and community groups.

"Islam is a religion of justice and peace and love," he says. "My job is to do the opposite of those who want to hijack the name of Islam."

Slimi's book, Terrorism: An Islamic Perspective, denounces terror in strong terms: "Islam does not condone or tolerate any terrorist acts including the killing of innocent people no matter what their faith is," he writes. But it also defends "Jihaad," which he defines as a defensive response to aggression.

"All nations do Jihaad when they are attacked," he writes, and Muslims should "defend themselves against their enemy, again, within well defined rules of engagement"; if "freedom and dignity fighters" are "trying to liberate their lands from usurpers, settlers and occupiers, why should they not get help from their fellow humans?"

Secular Muslim commentator Tarek Fatah argues a man with such beliefs is unfit to counsel Khadr.

Slimi says charges of extremism vastly misstate his views. His conception of jihad, he says, would simply permit Canadians to fight back if Canada were attacked.

"Blowing up people when they're sleeping, putting a bomb in a pizzeria – that is not jihad. I am furious when I see those things. That is terrorism. Jihad is defending your house. If someone invaded Canada, what would you do?"

Canadian officials, he says, understand his true nature. The RCMP website quotes him praising its education program, which his mosque has hosted. And after the 2006 bust of the "Toronto 18" alleged terror group, prosecutors asked him to counsel two of the young accused…

See, the imam’s a proponent of that “defensive jihad” (as well as the go-slow jihad)—which is okey-dokey with the CJC’s Bulka and the RCMP (but not, you’ll note, with Tarek Fatah, who is wise to the ways of a slippery Salafist).

Update: Here's the Wikipedia entry for "defensive jihad," which is easily accessible to any CJC or RCMP operative. Its explanation of the concept—quel surprise—is somewhat at odds with Slimi's.

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