DAR AL HARB - CANADA: MOSLEMS UNDER SEIGE IN THE WEST

Canadian scholar: Muslims under siege in the West

A well-known Canadian journalist and scholar has dismissied the so-called threats to the West from Muslims as a "canopy devoid of all truth." "Muslims are under siege, not the other way round," Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of Canada's largest-selling paper Toronto Star told a conference in Brussels on Friday.

He said Muslims have become the biggest victims of 9/11.

"Between 50,000 to 600,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US illegally invaded the country.

"And nobody knows how many civilians have died in Afghanistan.

The result is that the population is turning against NATO forces in the Muslim country."
Speaking at a conference dubbed "Canada: Multi-culturalism and the Law" organized by the Brussels-based think-tank European Policy Centre, Siddiqui noted that over 25,000 Muslims have been arrested in the US alone after 9/11.

"Muslims have to prove everyday that they are not enemies of freedom and democracy, that they like the Danish cartoons (which insulted the prophet), that they like the Pope," said Siddiqui, who has recently published a book titled "Being a Muslim." "We cannot fight terrorism by being mean to Muslims," stressed Siddiqui, who migrated to Canada in the '60s from the Indian city of Hyderabad.

Siddiqui was awarded the Order of Ontario in 2000.

Speaking at the same conference, Diane Fulford, Canada's assistant deputy minister for citizenship and heritage, said the Muslim population in Canada had increased at the rapid speed of 126 percent but remains at only 2 percent of the population.

Estimates put the number of Canadian Muslims at 579,640 from the total population of 33 million.

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There is a solution that no one seems to want to voice: moslems can move back to the lands of DAR AL ISLAM, take any wealth they have accumulated in the West, they can then cut all ties with the West and enjoy their hell on earth, as ordained by allah, all by themselves...

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