Shouldn’t an avowed enemy of a Western nation and its allies be treated as an enemy of that nation? Not according to Lawrence Greenspon, the tax-funded counsel for the defense of terrorist suspect Mohammad Momin Khawaja. Wherever you sit as you read this, if you agree that we need to fight terrorism and clamp down on violent Islamist extremism, you’ll be floored by what’s going on here in Canada.
Greenspon argues that his client, an admitted Jihadist who made detonators for terrorists in the narrowly averted second London bomb plot, who was in possession of explosives, who financed terrorist activity, and who received terrorist training,is not really a terrorist. He’s merely a young Islamist who sought to be an insurgent in Afghanistan, and everyone should just leave the poor guy alone.
Khawaja’s former fiancée explains to a gullible media that “Jihad and terrorism are different things.” Feel better now? Here’s the rationale.
Although the doctrinal definition of Jihad is this:
Greenspon argues that his client, an admitted Jihadist who made detonators for terrorists in the narrowly averted second London bomb plot, who was in possession of explosives, who financed terrorist activity, and who received terrorist training,is not really a terrorist. He’s merely a young Islamist who sought to be an insurgent in Afghanistan, and everyone should just leave the poor guy alone.
Khawaja’s former fiancée explains to a gullible media that “Jihad and terrorism are different things.” Feel better now? Here’s the rationale.
Although the doctrinal definition of Jihad is this:
"Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion." (Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller, A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, o9.0, JIHAD, pg. 599)... there are, we’re assured, two types of Jihad. First is the personal, non-violent Jihad akin to what Christians refer to as their “walk of life,” i.e. leading a righteous and peaceful life. It’s being confused in this case, according to Canadian journalists, with the second type of Jihad involving insurgency, honor killing and terrorism. Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
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