A series of unfortunate events

More of Syed Soharwardy's critics have been violently attacked.

The Iftikhar family, congregants at Soharwardy's mosque who have alleged financial corruption on Soharwardy's part, just had their house torched. Here's a news report from the Calgary Sun. An excerpt:

Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed, watched in horror as a car pulled up outside his Panatella Blvd. N.W. home and a man armed with a jerrycan and booze bottle got out, scaled the fence and set his home ablaze as seven children and three other adults slept.

Hours earlier, Ahmed had called 911 after two threatening men came to the door.

"I was so upset," said Ahmed, adding that's why he was still awake at about 4 a.m. when he saw the stranger set his home on fire.

"Within two minutes, we had a big fire," he said.

"We have a fear of death."

Arson Det. Scott Sampson said the family was definitely targeted and the fire could easily have been deadly.

The suspects hurled two Molotov cocktails at the home, one which ignited grass and another which bounced off a window, setting the exterior of the house on fire, said Sampson.

"If he wasn't up, the house would have gone up," Sampson said.

Cops are investigating several other attacks against members of the Muslim community with the help of RCMP, Services Alberta and the National Security investigation section.

A similar home invasion assault happened to another one of Soharwardy's critics, named Robina Butt. Here are the gruesome photos of her beating, and the news report.

One at a time, Soharwardy's critics are being picked off. Take a look at this complaint filed against Soharwardy back in December by Robina Butt, Shugufta Iftikhar (Dr. Ahmed's wife) and Qasira Shaheen. Prophetically, that complaint listed threats of violence.

Two down, one to go. If I was Qasira Shaheen, I'd hire a security guard.

P.S. There is something strange about the Sun report, don't you think? It doesn't mention Soharwardy, or the name of his mosque. Why that key omission? I think it has to do with a newspaper rivalry between the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun. The Herald has been extremely critical of Soharwardy; for some reason, the Sun has taken an opposite approach. I wonder how many more home invasions and beatings will have to happen before the Sun realizes that it bet on the wrong horse.

P.P.S. It is even more strange that such a rough and bigoted man as Soharwardy still manages to be polite company in some circles -- such as this planned reality TV show about him. Perhaps the producers simply haven't done their due diligence. Or maybe they have, and want to get some exciting action from the show -- maybe some footage of a beating or two down at the mosque.

P.P.P.S. But far more strange than either of these things is that our legal system is so twisted and politically correct that it will deploy untold resources towards pursuing Soharwardy's own human rights complaints, and other victimless thought crimes, at the behest of a man who clearly deserves closer investigation himself. I've got a crazy idea: why don't we pull a few more police off the thought crimes detail and maybe take a few million tax dollars out of the budgets of anonymous website cruisers, and redeploy that money to inculcating our Western values into incorrigible newcomers, and just plain enforcing the laws against assault and arson?

h/t Dust My Broom