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August 28, 2008

The West's mortal enemy

Described by a Canadian federal prosecutor as a "quartermaster of terror", Momin Khawaja has by his (alleged) actions done his level best to bring Muslims into hatred and contempt as a bearer of a demonic message of war and horror. His (alleged) actions speak louder but we should also take him at his word.

Momin Khawaja was ready to provide and "pull the trigger" of a deadly weapon for an Islamic extremist terror cell when he built a remote-control detonator device in 2004, said the Crown attorney in the terrorism trial of the Orleans man. Describing the software designer as "a zealot with deadly intentions," federal prosecutor David McKercher said yesterday the 29-year-old man acted as a "quartermaster of terror," eagerly supplying money and militia-like gear for a London-based jihad group that planned a fertilizer bomb plot targeting a U.K. nightclub, shopping complex and gas and electric facilities.

In a blistering rebuttal to a defence motion asking the trial judge to quash all seven terrorism charges against Khawaja, McKercher said Justice Douglas Rutherford should take Khawaja's self-description as "the West's mortal enemy" in literal terms.

From the sanctuary provided for him in Ottawa, my hometown, Khawaja tried to murder young men and women on the streets of London, my Jerusalem. Yet he is entitled to the full benefit of the law; legal counsel should he be unable to afford it, protection from double-jeopardy and -- even should he be convicted -- to believe as he will and to practice his religion as he will (excepting his duty to make war on the rest of us). More than the law provides for the rights of Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant and all the rest.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 28, 2008 06:43 AM

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