Quebec: I Have a Muslim Right to Further Violent Jihad…….

Reoccurring theme: Muslims who believe they have exclusive right to promote violence. Special thanks to Pamela at Atlas Shrugs.

Just Expressing My Religious Freedom You know”

Quebec man accused of terror activities was expressing religious freedom: defence

MONTREAL — The videos found on Said Namouh’s computer when police raided his Quebec apartment in 2007 are brutal: point-blank executions of Westerners, suicide bombings, a charred soldier’s body dragged through the street in celebration. Others offered tips on bomb-making or threatened Western governments over the presence of troops in Afghanistan.

Over the past three weeks, a Quebec court has heard that Mr. Namouh worked tirelessly to ensure these images were widely available on the Internet to the global jihadi community, in some cases doing the editing and adding subtitles himself. Mr. Namouh’s work showed that he had “devoted his life to spreading the ideology of al-Qaeda and encouraging others to join the jihadist movement,” said Rita Katz, a Crown expert at the terrorism trial. What Quebec Court Judge Claude Leblond will have to establish is whether those actions contravened Canada’s Criminal Code.

His defence lawyer, René Duval, is not contesting that Mr. Namouh was the user named Ashraf, who was so active on online jihadi forums that he earned praise for his “good work in the service of the [Global Islamic Media] Front, jihad and the mujahedeen.” But Mr. Duval argues that what his client did, while perhaps repugnant to some, was simply an exercise of his freedoms of expression and religion. “Where do you draw the line?” he asked outside the court.

Evidence before the court shows that Mr. Namouh was driven by a fervent faith, one that saw as enemies Christians, Jews and even Muslims who did not share a desire for the creation of pan-Islamic rule. “I write to you my loved ones with tears falling from the intensity of my love to our mujahedeen protectors, and in hatred of the Crusaders and Shi’a and apostates,” Mr. Namouh wrote in 2006 on a password-protected, invitation-only online message board known as Khidemat.

But wait there’s more!

The same defence was used in Sweden a few years ago in a similar case, in which an Islamic mosque in Sweden was caught selling anti-Semitic tapes that called Jews: “apes and pigs, cursing them and calling for Jihad against them, emphasising particularly that suicide bombing is a very effective weapon against them.” Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, stated in his defence in dismissing the case that:

“These statements should be differently judged and considered to be allowed/legitimate, because they are used by one party in an ongoing deep conflict where battle cries and defamation are contained as everyday elements in the rhetoric around the conflict“.

According to Ilya Meyer who closely followed the case, the Chancellor never had all of the facts before he made the decision to dismiss the case:

“The flagrantly anti-Semitic texts from the Stockholm mosque were never fully translated in writing for his examination; instead he received a verbal translation through the services of an interpreter, and this verbal translation was more in the nature of a summary of the contents. Yet the Chancellor writes: “There is furthermore no reason for me to review my decision as long as such re-examination would concern the same material.” The question is: what material would this be? The Chancellor, after all, admits he has none.”

The Swedish “Chancellor of Justice” knew all along that there were more flagrant, anti-Semitic tapes available at the mosque, but chose not to review them. Such is the justice system in Sweden, hopefully in Quebec Canada, Göran Lambert’s retarded dhimmi verdict will not be duplicated. KGS

Via: the Sheik