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This quote from a Canadian imam raises questions he'd likely rather not answer:
Imam: Canada Suspects Didn't Seek Violence
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
Several members of a suspected terrorist ring prayed daily at a storefront mosque in a middle-class city west of Toronto but never spoke of hurting others, one of their prayer leaders said.
"I will say that they were steadfast, religious people. There's no doubt about it. But here we always preach peace and moderation," Qamrul Khanson, an imam at the one-room Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education, said Sunday.
The imam says they're "steadfast, religious people" BUT he told them not to blow stuff up. Why does he have to say "but"? Paraphrase: They're religious people, but he told them not to kill people anyway. Even though they're religious, at HIS mosque they preach non-violence.
Even though they're "steadfast, religious people," he made a special effort to preach "peace and moderation." "Peace and moderation?" What's that? The imam didn't even say "non-violence." He didn't even say, "not to kill non-Muslims." Peace, in Islam, means submission to the will of Muslims. "Moderation?" That's not non-violence. That might just be moderated violence.
The suspects had acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate - the same ingredient used in the Oklahoma City bombing. So this imam's description of the ones he knew as "steadfast, religious people" appears to say a lot about their "religion."
If it's such a peaceful religion, why don't imams stand up and loudly declare that terrorists who kill in the name of Islam, are lost to Islam and lost to their religion? You never hear that. But you hear tons and tons of imams preaching that Muslims should kill.
Do they ever preach anything else?
