Ottawa Police Services Reach Out to Islamist Groups After Attack

Just after last week's terrorist attacks in Ottawa, the city's police chief Charles Bordeleau reached out to various Muslim leaders and organizations with questionable ties to radical organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, according to a report produced by the Canadian website Point De Bascule.

Sikhander Hashmi, the imam at the Kanata Muslim Association (KMA), acknowledged that Bordeleau contacted him to reassure the Muslim community in case of "backlash" from the terrorist attack. This perceived "backlash" remains to be seen. More significantly, the Ottawa Police Service overlooks connections between Hahsmi's organization and the Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure in Ottawa. That includes money it transferred to the Hamas-linked IRFAN-Canada in 2010, according to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

IRFAN-Canada lost its charity status in 2011 following a CRA audit that exposed the organization as an "integral part" in Hamas' international fundraising infrastructure. The donations in question were sent between 2005 and 2009. Canadian authorities designated IRFAN-Canada as a terrorist organization earlier this year after determining the charity served as a front for Hamas, transferring close to $15 million to the terrorist organization.

The KMA also transferred money to the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization linked to the Pakistani Jammat-e-Islami.

Moreover, Chief Bordeleau previously met with other controversial Muslim leaders in Ottawa. In January 2013, he met with Jalil Marhnouj, vice president of the Assunnah Muslims Association and other leaders affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood network in Canada. The Assunnah Muslims Association transferred $29,880 to IRFAN.

Despite the Canadian government's acknowledged link between the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and Hamas, the Ottawa Police Service maintains an extensive relationship with the controversial group. The NCCM, formerly known as CAIR-CAN, has trained Ottawa Police officers since February 2002, according to a Senate Committee testimony provided by a former Ottawa police chief. The NCCM is a recognized affiliate of CAIR, which has been identified by the FBI as part of a Hamas-support network in the United States.

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Orthodox Islam and "terror"

Submitted by Kingsley, Oct 29, 2014 17:08

Most Canadians are ignorant of the political/religious ideology. The assume it is like all other faith groups. The Koran is the eternally valid commands of their deity. There are many like Verse 5:51 which warns them that to be a true friend of a Jew or Christian makes you an "apostate", subject to the death penalty. Verse 8:31 commands them to fight the "unbelievers" until the entire world worships only Allah. Allah's ideal human being is Mohammad, whom all the believers should strive to imitate. His bio cites his boast that "I conquered by terror". They have been doing it for 1400 years and one must be ignorant, or cowardly, to avoid addressing that unpleasant reality that the believers will not, can not, end the practice. More barbaric atrocities are on the way and our leaders will continue to betray the future of our society and our children.

Let's try to be a bit more grown up and sophisticated, officers!

Submitted by Andrew H, Oct 29, 2014 00:00

Are Canadian police chiefs now working for Obama? Where and when did all this "outreach" business begin with Muslims? Is the Canadian police reaching out to Hindus? Catholics? Jews? The different Muslim sects which are always warring with each other? Isn't it time that the P.M.s office establish a school for law enforcement managers to teach them about Muslim Taqqyia (deception) and what their job should and should not entail. The Mounties got sucked in and fooled by Muslims just weeks ago in a publishing venture in which they made it look like the RCMP was supporting them in everything which the red-faced Mounties then quickly tried to save face by issuing a press release stating that they are not part of the whole pamphlet - a pathetically Canadian stance.

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