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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 05:55 PM Apr 2013

BBC: Canada train plot: Canada Muslims reflect after arrests

After the chaos and drama surrounding the Boston bombings, an altogether more low-key story is unfolding here in Toronto.

... if Canada has been spared a national tragedy, its large Muslim communities are left wondering if they missed something.

Mr Heft, who runs the Paradise Forever Islamic Centre in Toronto, said he never met the younger Jaser. The next time he heard his name was when the authorities approached him 10 days ago with word of their ongoing investigation. ... "We have idiots in our community, like everyone does."

But even for someone with a trained eye, like Mr Heft, the signs are not always easy to spot. Mr Esseghaier and Mr Jaser both seem to have behaved in ways that rang alarm bells with family members and co-workers, but Mr Heft said extreme radicalisation tends to be a private thing. ... "Anywhere the internet is, there's a problem with radicalisation," he said. "Generally speaking, it's happening with Mufti Yahoo and Sheikh Google."

"When there's a threat to Canada, it's a threat to the Muslim community as well," he told the BBC. Mr Badat said there was always concern about the impact of a story like this on public perceptions of the Muslim community, but said Canadians would not be jumping to conclusions. "We share the same concerns that Canadians share," he said. "We want the prosperity of our country and the safety of our country."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22286620

I wonder if American Muslims would say that "Americans would not be jumping to conclusions"? I suspect that most of them would unless they lived in very Red parts of the country.
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