Who is paying for the Hamas hate marches in Canada?
Street protests don't just happen. They take manpower and money. So
where is the money coming from for the Hamas hate marches across Canada?
I'm going to guess: Saudi Arabia.
It's not really much of a guess -- Saudi Arabia acknowledges that it pumps millions of dollars a year into Canadian mosques. They positively boast about it, though they've become more discreet about their North American operations since 9/11.
Here's an excerpt from an article I wrote about it in the Calgary Herald, on Aug. 17, 2002:
Here's a similar new report in 2004 by Bob Fife, via Tarek Fatah's blog:
And then there's Nagah Hage of the Muslim Council of Calgary. He was the instigator behind this month's hate marches in Calgary's Jewish neighbourhoods, where the Hezbollah flag was flown and swastikas brandished. I was also told today that there were chants of "death to the Jews" in Arabic (I'll post the relevant video clips when I can confirm it) and I'm also told that one of the marchers, in an argument with a counter-protester, declared that he was ready to be a suicide jihadi anywhere in the world -- including right here in Canada. He said this within earshot of a half dozen police officers, who did nothing.)
Back to Hage: he has experience calling for death to the Jews. Back in 2002, he led another hate march, that one with over 1,000 people, through downtown Calgary. There were terrorist flags flown then, too; Jews were called Nazis then too; Arabic chants of "death to the Jews" were made then, too. It being downtown, some of the hate marchers tried to storm the federal government offices at the Harry Hays Building, and got into a shoving match with police.
Here is the Calgary Herald's contemporaneous report of the event.
Was a human rights complaint filed? Don't be ridiculous. Any criminal charges at all -- including trespass or assaulting a police officer? Of course not.
So why should it be surprising that seven years later, Hage is back at it, this time in the Jewish neighbourhoods? The only surprising thing is that his latest pre-pogroms only number in the hundreds, not the thousands.
I'm going to guess: Saudi Arabia.
It's not really much of a guess -- Saudi Arabia acknowledges that it pumps millions of dollars a year into Canadian mosques. They positively boast about it, though they've become more discreet about their North American operations since 9/11.
Here's an excerpt from an article I wrote about it in the Calgary Herald, on Aug. 17, 2002:
According to Ain Al Yaqeen, a Saudi weekly, the Saudis spend millions each year on mosques in Canada. In Toronto alone, $7 million went to build the Islamic Centre, which receives another $2 million a year for operating expenses.
Mosques in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal also receive Saudi dollars. The magazine boasts that the kingdom spends "billions" globally -- even more astonishing given the country's burgeoning debt.
Here's a similar new report in 2004 by Bob Fife, via Tarek Fatah's blog:
...The [counter-terrorism] task force said Saudi Arabia has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to fund 210 Islamic centres and 1,359 mosques around the world, including in Canada.I note that one of the participants in the Calgary Hamas hate march was none other than Syed Soharwardy, the anti-Semitic bigot who took me before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. Soharwardy frequently does the anti-Semitic Saudi speaker's circuit, and one of his various websites publishes a column by a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group (in the comment section here, you can see Soharwardy's laughable "explanation" of that.) I wonder if he gets Saudi dough to prop up his agitations. He fits the profile: a radical, anti-Semitic imam who frequents Saudi Arabia and is part of the terrorist propaganda machine.
It cites an official Saudi report in 2002 that stated ''King Fahd donated $5-million US for the cost of an Islamic Center in Toronto, Canada, in addition to $1.5-million US annually to run the facility.''
The Saudi government's official Web site also said King Fahd provided funds to the Calgary mosque, the Ottawa mosque and the Islamic centre in Quebec.
Toronto has numerous Islamic centres and the Saudi embassy in Ottawa refused to say which received millions of dollars from King Fahd.
...The imam of the Ottawa Mosque, Dr. Gamal Solaiman, could not say how much money the Saudis provided his mosque, nor did he know which Islamic centre in Toronto was funded by the Saudis.
Dr. Solaiman referred all inquiries about Saudi funding to the mosque's board of directors, but they did not return phone calls. Hussein Paiman of the Calgary Mosque, whose imam was a professor at Saudi Arabia's King Saud University, also did not know how much the Saudis had contributed.
The Islamic Centre in Quebec -- run by Sheikh Syed Bukhari, a graduate of Madina University in Saudi Arabia, was also unable to discuss Saudi funding.
All three institutions are posted on the Saudi government Web site as receiving an unspecified amount of money from the kingdom, but their individual Web sites do not appear to preach radical Islamic doctrines.
...Saudi Arabia is training and sending radical clerics abroad to propagate extremism and said every Saudi embassy has a well-funded branch that provides ''inflammatory materials'' to mosques and Islamic centres.
And then there's Nagah Hage of the Muslim Council of Calgary. He was the instigator behind this month's hate marches in Calgary's Jewish neighbourhoods, where the Hezbollah flag was flown and swastikas brandished. I was also told today that there were chants of "death to the Jews" in Arabic (I'll post the relevant video clips when I can confirm it) and I'm also told that one of the marchers, in an argument with a counter-protester, declared that he was ready to be a suicide jihadi anywhere in the world -- including right here in Canada. He said this within earshot of a half dozen police officers, who did nothing.)
Back to Hage: he has experience calling for death to the Jews. Back in 2002, he led another hate march, that one with over 1,000 people, through downtown Calgary. There were terrorist flags flown then, too; Jews were called Nazis then too; Arabic chants of "death to the Jews" were made then, too. It being downtown, some of the hate marchers tried to storm the federal government offices at the Harry Hays Building, and got into a shoving match with police.
Here is the Calgary Herald's contemporaneous report of the event.
Was a human rights complaint filed? Don't be ridiculous. Any criminal charges at all -- including trespass or assaulting a police officer? Of course not.
So why should it be surprising that seven years later, Hage is back at it, this time in the Jewish neighbourhoods? The only surprising thing is that his latest pre-pogroms only number in the hundreds, not the thousands.
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