My life against the Koran
From Djemilla BenHarbie
Algerian in 2009
Terrorist cells in the service of jihad in Canada
Allah is compassionate
Part 1
Montreal, December 15, 1999 in Saint-Denis. My parents and my brother were party to welcome me. Since moving to Montreal, our reunion ever took on the appearance of grandiose celebrations that met my uncles, all exiled in France, their families and our many friends. 
These intense moments filled me with love. The ringing phone came to tear myself at this moment of pure happiness. I had not yet had time to unpack my suitcase. I was coming away from the airport. He was the editor of El Watan. He announced the arrest of Ahmed Ressam in the state of Washington, on the Canadian border, which was about to commit an attack against the Los Angeles International Airport.
Djemila Benhabib
I was stunned. "They have infested even Canada? Is that it? "I-told, shocked by the news. "It is too early to jump to conclusions, but it has all the air. I know nothing more. It's up to you what you can do, "he replied. I had gone to Montreal to leave behind me the murderers of the FIS and now they were again upset the tranquility of my Canadian life. To keep me as far away from these murderers, I made a new exile for which I sacrificed what I hold most dear: my family. Was I returned to the drawing board? Certainly not, but I was not far away. I never imagined that my collaboration with El-Watan,which began four months ago, was about to take a turn and accelerate reporting on Islamist terrorism. Yet this is what happened. These years of work with this newspaper gave me a lot about human terms. I consider myself immensely privileged to have had such a rewarding experience with colleagues so committed and I want to thank them sincerely. This adventure is possible thanks to Omar Belhouchet, editor at the time, which allowed me to fully develop myself within the team. They find here the expression of my gratitude!
The school of barbarism
A Muslim has to fight, kill and die for Allah, we are repeating all daylong.The award, it was paradise with virgins. Satisfaction that the boys were well exciting as young as 10 or 12 years. I could see their excitement was growing warmer over the years. During these sessions of self-flagellation in which the teacher described to us in detail the punishments of the last day, it happened that some of my classmates start crying while others, mostly boys excelled in their description of the Hell learned to Koranicschool.These students, although they were not the best, had the greatest admiration for certain teachers that gratified the praise and gifts, which was not the case for others. Those who knew the Koran were in the particular category was entitled to all considerations. School was initiation into barbarism. Children we were already barbarians and I did not.
The arrest of Ahmed Resssam, a veteran of Afghanistan of Algerian origin, in possession of a hundred pounds of explosives and detonators, December 14, 1999, in Port Angeles, has unveiled the existence a terrorist network in the Montreal region led by Fateh Kamel, trading of Algerian origin, settled in Canada since 1987 and married to a Canadian. The network brought together a hundred people who are mostly from the Maghreb, and had branches in Algeria, Italy, France, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The information recorded in confidential classified French documents revealed phone numbers and training of caps fax in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
The trial Canadian of Algerian Ahmed Ressam opens in the United States. In April, he was found guilty of having transported to the United States 59 kilograms of explosives and conspiracy to commit a terrorist act on US soil. The man, 33, who has lived in Montreal, was arrested Dec. 14, 1999 while trying to enter Washington state from Canada with explosives and four detonators, to blow up the Los Angeles airport during celebrations of the Year 2000. On 27 July 2005, he received a sentence of 22 years in prison. Another five years of supervision in addition to his release.
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Links have been substantiated between the cell and the Montreal Doubaix gang, led by Lionel Dumont and Christophe Caze, both converts to Islam who have stayed in the camps Training in Bosnia in the company of FatehKamel.From the early 1990s, the Montreal network specialized in forged documents trafficking. Not only. The French judge Jean-LouisBruguiere,an expert on Islamist networks, saw Canada as a rear base of the militants of the FIS and the GIA. Indeed, many activists of the Algerian Islamist movement had fled Europe to Canada. They claimed their political affiliation, claiming they were being persecuted by the Algerian government, which frankly was fashionable at that time, and some of them were granted refugee status. This allowed them to quietly move to Canada and live on welfare before being harassed by the intelligence services in the wake of the arrest of AhmedRessam.
Judge Bruguiere always kept an eye on those who had passed through France. Ahmed Ressam was one of them. His investigations Roubaix gang led him to Montreal. In April 1999, nine months before Ressam's arrest, he had alerted the Canadian authorities · in writing to the presence of several Algerian terrorists, including Ressam. The security services have waited six months until October 1999, prior to the search of the home of the latter requested by Bruguiere. The search was successful and allowed to get their hands on a small diary through which we went up the chain of AI-Qaida network until Mghanistan. However, Ressam was gone.
Tumbleweeds despite a pedigree that was not reassuring, many Islamists continued to circulate at will. In the opinion of Judge Bruguiere, Canadians have been slow to react. In an interview he granted me in Paris in December 2002, he expressed to me his frustration with the warmth of the security services to get their hands on Islamist activists, when many of them had already been sentenced for trafficking false documents, fraud and credit card theft. Arrested in Canada several times for theft, Ahmed Ressam was never sentenced to the prison. An arrest warrant had even been issued against him for failing to appear at his hearing at the IRB. Arrived in Montreal in February 1994, after two years in France, he had crossed the border with a false French passport. March 16, 1998, he visited Mghanistan. It was there, in the Khalden camp, he met Abu Zoubeida, one of the lieutenants of bin Laden responsible for the recruitment of "original Maghreb brothers." Many Canadians were enrolled in Afghanistan and Mohammed Momin Khawaja was among Kadr.
Zoubeida, one of the lieutenants of bin Laden responsible for the recruitment of "original Maghreb brothers." 
Camp entrennement Mohamed Khadr
Many other Canadians were enrolled in Mghanistan. Khadr and Mohammed Momin Khawaja was the number. Those belonged to cells of Toronto, which operated independently of those of Montreal. Ressam returned a year later under a false identity, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) who watched his home in Malicorne street is seen that fire. Why this great tolerance for Islamist militants who moreover had converted to banditry? Fatima Houda-Pepin, Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and of Moroccan origin, has given the explanation to journalists from Radio-Canada during a TV report on terrorism in
Canada aired September 8, 2006: "We never really cared about the danger it represented, as long as they killed in Tunisia, they killed in Algeria, they killed in Egypt or elsewhere. 
It was happening elsewhere and no including the addition, it is here. During the 1990s, the civil war has torn Algeria and many victims of violence have taken refuge in Montreal. The victims, but also their executioners. Taking advantage of the tolerance police, members of the GIA, terrorizing Algeria, also came to Quebec. "During the black decade in Algeria, friends showed me that Montreal mosques called to bleed intellectuals and forces security. Friday prayers clôturaient incendiary sermons. Fabrice journalist Pierrebourg investigated the subject and has published a book entitled Montréalistan which contains information on the Islamist movement in Montreal. In April 1999, Judge Bruguiere again that, with the cooperation of Jordanian and Saudi security services, has arrested Fateh Kamel in Jordan and moved himself to stop it. Kamel was extradited to France and sentenced to eight years in prison for his participation in a false papers traffic to the Roubaix gang. Released four years later for good behavior, he returned to Montreal in January 2005 where he still lives.
It is through some mosques Montreal was primarily the work of "approach" and recruiting new activists, includingfamous Assonamosque
Annabawiyah Hutchison Street, which played a role in organizing de Montréal's network. Accused of recruiting two of the hijackers in the September II while he was in Germany, the imam of the mosque is still held at
Guantanamo.
As the mosques completely outside the supervision of the authorities, hateful sermons continue to do it. Following the murder in Ontario in December 2007 Aqsa Parvez finger was pointed at many mosques in Montreal and Toronto who openly called for violence against women. Rima Elkouri in La Presse, reported the remarks posted on the website of an Islamic association that has a storefront. "Put a veil, otherwise you could be raped
This is what we received as a message up 'on recently on the website of the Muslim Community Center of Montreal, under a heading to inform the user unveiled the supposed dangers related to his condition. Do not wear the hijab fear led to"the case of divorce, adultery , rape and illegitimate children, "said the warning at the least mind-boggling. It was also said that the one who removes her veil sees his "destroyed faith", adopts an "indecent behavior" and will be punished in "hell". It also dealt Western woman "unpaid prostitute. '"
Richard Martineau also unveiled on about Imam Abu Hammaad Sulaiman Al-Dameus Hayiti, Salafi imam of Haitian origin of the Dar Al mosque -Arqam located rue Jean Talon near 17th Avenue. Having trained in Saudi Arabia, it lavishes sermons in Montreal. In two columns denouncing the warmth of left groups and defenders of human rights facing the Islamist hate, Richard Martineau resumed extracts from the "lessons" of Al-Hayiti: 
"Those who want to deny the difference between the woman Muslim and infidel women in the name of humanism, feminism and equality, have not understood the reality of Islam. Muslim women is higher than the miscreant by his faith and his religion because she understood the Word of Allah. "Examples like the last two, I can cite dozens. Moreover, for denouncing the actions and statements of Islamist criminals, Richard Martineau constantly receiving insults andthreats.
The mobilization of mosques has also played a crucial role in the case of Islamic Courts in Ontario, through the pathetic Imam Tunisian Al Jaziri and virulent Egyptian imam Salam Elmenyawi, president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, both strong supporters. In Toronto, the situation is much the same. In the aftermath of the attacks of September II, December 2, 2001, the Toronto Star published, written by SamGrewal,a folder named "ln Some mosques Toronto the hard line." In its investigation, the journalist reported some disturbing facts about preachers who did not hesitate, in the Post-It-September euphoria, talking about jihad against the West. One question remains on everyone's lips: who speaks for that in the Muslim communityentitled:
A CBC report released in March 2007 "? Who Speaks for Islam" showed the intimidation of Canadian Muslims who try to speak of a moderate Islam, pluralistic and secular. People who have left the country where freedom of expression was a chimera subject to shameless pressures in Canada in their community. What is even more disturbing is the impunity of radicals who demand freedom of speech to justify their campaigns of intimidation.
In the summer of 2005, a terrorist cell composed of four Algerians suspected of belonging to GSPC was dismantled in Toronto, revealed the National Post. Kept secret information was confirmed by a senior CSIS, Larry Brooks, during a seminar of security experts in Toronto, stated the newspaper. The group, based in Canada for six years, had a former instructor of the Al-Qaeda network, an explosives expert who had received his training in the camps of Al-Farooq and Khaldun in eastern Mghanistan.
Arrived at Canada in 1998, three of the four Algerians Toronto had asked for political asylum had been denied. They were arrested and deported to the United States, where they entered Canada. As the head of the cell, the explosives expert, arrived in Canada August 8, 1998 carrying a false Saudipassport,he had also filed an application for asylum was denied. He left the country voluntarily March 7, 2004 after a confrontation with investigators. It is only since November 2002 that the GSPC is considered to Canada as a terrorist organization. According to the NationalPost,there was no relationship between the cell and the Toronto Montreal led by FatehKamel.However, it can do many parallel. Once in Canada, members of the two cells have claimed political refugee status. In addition, they specialized in the preparation of explosives.
June 2, 2006, a terrorist plot that targeted the CN Tower inToronto,the Parliament and even the Prime Minister Stephen Harper was foiled and 17 men, mostly Canadian Muslims in his early twenties and 5 minors were arrested in the Toronto area. None of the suspects had a criminal record. None of them had experienced problems with the authorities. The hunt has allowed police to seize three tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer often used as an explosive in terrorist attacks. The deputy director of operations at CSIS, Luc Portelance, argued that the suspects arrested adhered to an "ideology of violence inspired by AlQaeda."Another CSIS official explained that the young terrorists do not need to train in illegal camps Mghanistan to learn techniques used to carry out attacks.
Surfing the Web is enough for them. Young people born or raised in Canada fomented half of suspected terrorists, the other half being illegally installed or individuals who applied for refugee status. Following the coup Toronto net, a communication plan was immediately set up in Montreal by a score of Muslim associations have called a press conference that was of course to clear political Islamism and shuffle the cards .
In a joint press release published on the website of the Muslim Council of Montreal, these organizations have blamed the excesses in the host society: "Extremism is a generated social phenomenon, among others, by political social exclusion and ethnic stereotypes of what some communities face.
It is therefore not unusual for citizens belonging to specific ethnic or cultural groups are discriminated against and relegated to what might be called second-class citizens, "we could read. As usual, these Islamist organizations preferred to look elsewhere for failing to endorse the obvious. In an editorial entitled "intolerable", Josée Boileau castigated their moralizing tone towards the people and wrote: "What have we heard calls for calm and tolerance since the arrests of weekend: an alien could believe that the terrible cravings lynching and revenge must always be curbed in this country! Yet apart from a few broken windows of the Ontario mosque frequented by suspicious and beating on the windows when a prayer, no significant incidents were reported.
"Sherecalls that Quebec in particular, no incidents significant had been reported and that "the spokesman Muslims struggled to find concrete cases." Yet these were the first to suggest a climate of insecurity and stigmatization of Muslims. A reproach Josée Boileau calls "good blur." She prefers also highlight the friendly nature of Canadians toward Muslims and citizenship they have shown to events. Who welcome it? questioned even the editor of Le Devoir. Certainly not the "voice" Muslims. This is not to denounce found no proselytizing hate imams. Yet the evidence that implicated certain mosques in the recruitment of youths charged little lacking.
In May 2008, when it began to Toronto trial of one of the five accused minors, aged 20, the -C in open court tried to leave the court arguing that he recognized that the laws of Allah and that Canadian law had no jurisdiction over him. The Globe and Mail reported that after his lawyer denied he asked to return to his cell, arguing that in prison at least he could pray at will. In its edition of day, the newspaper took the disturbing revelations of one of the senior officials of the Canadian against terrorism, Mike McDonnell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which revealed that the greatest threat to which facing Canada, it was youth membership in their twenties to jihadist ideology.
The claims of green fascism contaminate Canada
Political Islamism is rooted wherever it can, including Canada, to impose its dictates Muslim communities and flex the State. It is through the claims as absurd as farfetched that fools of Allah Islamize societies. What have I heard in recent years in this country?
The Islamic courts to the headscarf, separation of the sexes, prayer rooms in universities and schools to the exemption of certain courses, the veil during sports competitions refusal of some women to be examined by a male doctor when we fail horribly doctors, through prenatal classes for women and school canteens that become the target of excessive and crazy parents.
Let's say if the debate continues on many of these claims and especially the veil, that concerning the establishment of arbitration courts, which called for the implementation of Sharia law to settle family disputes between Muslims of Ontario, ended abruptly after Premier Dalton McGuinty said he had refused to recognize religiousarbitration.He not only prohibits the creation of a Muslim court, but the government amended in 2006, the
Law on Religious Arbitration, whether that arbitration was a Jew, Catholic orMuslim.Stating that "the same law should apply to all Ontarians," McGuinty has inflicted a real blow to supporters of cultural relativism.
This is also invoking the Law on Religious Arbitration and in the name of " equality of religions "in December 2003 Syed Mumtaz Ali, president of the Council of Canadian Muslims, announced his desire to create a Muslim religious court to deal with divorce, inheritance, alimony and custody of child. This amounted in fact to recognize arbitration widely practiced imams in mosques. Demand for Islamic Courts strongly shook the resident Canada where some 600,000 Muslims. Several women's groups cried foul and claimed that if Ontario acquiesced to this request, gender equality would be downright violated, which would amount to trample the Charter of Rights andFreedoms.
To study the question of religiously based arbitration in family and inheritance law, the Prime Minister had entrusted the cause, in June 2004, Marion Boyd, feminist, left wife, former Attorney General and Minister for the Status of Women. A lively debate was then opened between those who, attached to the principles of secularism and equality, strongly rejected the proposal and those who brandished multiculturalism and religious freedom to defend the project. There was clearly the one hand, those who wanted the religious interfere in the family and on the other hand, those who opposed it.
December 20, 2004, Marion Boyd has produced its report, Solving disputes in family law, Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion, which recommended the continuation of the legislation by introducing some tags such as the training of referees and the obligation to record decisions. The report was greeted with amazement by feminists and secular, while the project initiators are happy and seemed to have already won the battle. But the discontent, mainly from women's groups, rode in several European countries.
If the Muslim arbitration tribunals were born, it would set a precedent in the West. A broad movement of indignation is organized through prunes. Homa Arjomand, of Iranian origin, who fled the Islamic regime of the mullahs in 1989 to settle in Canada, coordinated international campaign with a warlike fury. One who fled to Turkey crossing the mountains on horseback, at night, in the snow, with her husband and two young children, has created a website that received immediate adhesion. Columnists, intellectuals, politicians, human rights activists, feminists, have joined the denunciation campaign. The famous author Margaret Atwood, the wife of former Prime Minister Joe Clark, Maureen Mc Teer, former Conservative cabinet minister Flora MacDonald, activist Maude Barlow, among others, have sent an open letter to Premier McGuinty, asking to abandon the project.
A hundred international organizations mobilized, calling for demonstrations outside Canadian representation in different European cities including London, Dusseldorf, Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam. On 8 September 2005, tension rose a notch. Demonstrations were held in several major Canadian cities. Faced with the discontent, the idea of introducing Islamic Courts was abandoned after months of dismal tergivercations. Homa Arjomand exulted, "This is the best news I've heard for five years.
"Inevitably,the debate that shook the Queen City" Toronto "has had an impact in Quebec. Although the Quebec Civil Code clearly states that family matters exclusively secular justice system May 26, 2005 the National Assemblyunanimously adopted a motion proposed by Fatima Houda Pepin. The motion, which had a symbolic character, allowed the National Assembly to decide unequivocally against the establishment of Islamic courts in Quebec and Canada. It stressed that "the establishment of Islamic courts in Canada does not stem from religious freedom nor equality between cultural communities, but a political strategy to isolate the Muslim community, to make it more malleable to hands of ideologues and undermine our justice system. (. ..) We should not underestimate the threat Peset are fundamentalists on women and the justice system.
"Inresponse to this position, thirty Muslim groups signed a joint statement published in several Newspapers, asking the Quebec National Assembly to reconsider his statements, saying it "stigmatize Muslim citizens and expresses discrimination against their religion." Again, it was believed to discrimination and racism. Some have criticized him for deliberately targeted the Muslim arbitration and have you ecclesiastical and rabbinical arbitration, demanded a motion condemning any religious arbitration in family law.
This campaign was mainly aimed at discrediting and attacking personally Fatima Houda-Pepin.I have always appreciated the frankness of the Member for La Pinière, a woman of courage and principles. I am especially proud to see a woman of this caliber in the National Assembly of Quebec. 
In Quebec, it's ten years ago, in 1994, through the chapter on headscarves in schools, the Islamists have marked significant points. The episode ended with acceptance in public schools.
By invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,a legal recommendation of the Human-Rights Commission had agreed that the ban was a discriminatory act, undermining the right to public education and freedom of religion. This decision was contrary to the position of the Central Teachers of Quebec (CSQ), which posted its disapproval of the veil in school. The Federation of Quebec school boards proposed, meanwhile, the decision is left to the principal of each school, while the Council on the Status of Women defended wearing the Islamic veil. He explained his position by arguing that the ban would have the effect of excluding girls from public schools and deprive them of their right to education or to direct them to more conservative private schools.
According Rachida Adouez toprovided that the debate would resurface, polemics 1994 had finished fishtail. Today, some observers roundly criticized this decision and associate it with a women's rights perspective. But how to get rid of this thorn in the side? "While concluding that, absent undue hardship banning religious symbols is discriminatory, the opinion recalled the evolving nature of the Charter and the importance of social context in the consideration of diversity. In a context where we have reason to believe that students are victims of proselytism or fear that social peace is threatened, we could avoid the duty to accommodate. It is therefore expected that the context could change and that what was considered reasonable here and now, in 1995, could remain reasonable or excessive become a few years later.
"This is because many women and men are aware of these issues that they remain alert to accommodations that are made in the name of religion. "In a country where gender equality was conquered after a fierce struggle for over a century (...) I do not believe that a fundamental right to be reasonable if it is not compatible with the notion of equality! "thought Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, retired judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. In the same interview with Le Devoir, she criticized in particular the 2004 judgment on the Jewish sukkah (building wooden huts on balconies) and 2006 relating to the wearing of the kirpan to school!
Continued on the document Part 2
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