Hate literature in downtown Toronto...

There was a good op-ed in today's National Post by Tarek Fatah, host of the weekly TV show, The Muslim Chronicle, and Munir Pervaiz, secretary of the Pakistani Writers Forum. Their article was about various attempts by the Islamic community to ensure progressives are not heard. But, these paragraphs caught my attention:

There are other troubling indicators afoot. Late in September, at the Toronto Book Festival Word on the Street, another Islamic organization, The Islamic Council of North America, distributed free booklets written by Abu Ala Maudoodi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the book, Maudoodi exhorts ordinary Muslims to launch jihad, as in armed struggle, against non-Muslims. "Jihad is part of this overall defence of Islam," he writes. "This supreme sacrifice is the responsibility of all Muslims."

He then goes on to label Muslims who refuse the call for armed jihad as apostates: "Jihad is as much a primary duty as are daily prayers or fasting. One who avoides it is a sinner. His every claim to being a Muslim is doubtful. He is plainly a hypocrite who fails in the test of sincerity and all his acts of worship are a sham, a worthless, hollow, show of deception.

If such hateful and inflammatory literatures can be distributed in downtown Toronto, one can imagine what is being said in the confines of private gatherings. Islamic extremists are taking advantage of Canada's liberal democracy to spread fascist ideology.

Yes, indeed. And, will it take a terrorist attack before we do anything about it?