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Imam to Canadian gov’t: “If you try to cross the line I can’t guarantee what is going to happen.”

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Imam warns Ottawa to back off

A controversial Toronto imam warned Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan at a closed-door meeting to stop “terrorizing” Canadian Muslims.

“If you try to cross the line I can’t guarantee what is going to happen. Our young people, we can’t control,” Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough’s Salaheddin Islamic Centre, recalls telling the minister at the May meeting she held in Toronto with dozens of Muslim leaders.

[…] Several people who attended shrugged off the imam’s remarks, but some Muslims and government agents later approached Mr. Hindy asking him to explain himself.

“The police came to me and said, ‘This is a kind of threat,’ and I said yes,” he said. “But it’s for the good of this country.

“And they said, ‘Do you know some of the names of those people you expect to cause some problems?’ And I said, ‘You just open the telephone directory.’ “

While government investigators probing the woman’s complaint told Mr. Hindy they have not found evidence of wrongdoing, he isn’t giving the spy service the benefit of the doubt.

“We believe CSIS should stop,” he says in a flyer he is circulating to mosques. ” CSIS is powerless. CSIS has no authority over you. If CSIS agents come to your door, do not open [it] for them.

[…]In the wake of the London bombings, Ms. McLellan has said that Canadians must become “psychologically prepared” for such an attack.

She has also suggested such strikes are not related to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, in which Britain is a strong partner. Mr. Hindy believes the war in Iraq has caused young Muslims to want to fight against the United States and Britain. “I always say the No. 1 recruiter of al-Qaeda is George W. Bush,” he said.

The imam said six or seven young men have approached him to discuss “fighting overseas” in place such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

He said he told them “people fighting in Iraq, they don’t need more people.”

Instead, Canadian Muslims can wage non-violent jihads (holy struggles) at home. “You have a very good chance to serve Islam here,” he said he told them.

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