Canada's Jihadist Fifth Column

Stephen Brown at FrontPageMagazine reports on the results of a poll taken in Canada which shows that a significant minority are terrorist sympathizers. You may remember the incident in June of last year in which 18 Muslims who "represented a broad cross-section of Canadian society", were caught by Canadian authorities trying to buy three tons of explosives. Their plan was to set of those explosives in Toronto, invade the Parliament and to behead the leaders there, including the Prime Minister. We were told, of course, that the people involved in this plot did not represent any particular group or ethnic demographic. In reality the terrorists were all Muslims who were anxious to commit Jihad against the West that had so generously, and mistakenly, given them a haven. Biting the hand that feeds you is obviously a trait which is common amongst the Jihadist Muslims. In this story we find that as many as 12 per cent of the Muslim population in Canada thought that the actions of those terrorists would have been justified. In case you're doing the math, that is about 50,000 people who are terrorist sympathizers in Canada. One is, of course, tempted to wonder what the corresponding number is here in America.

Most shocking about this whole matter was the question that was not asked. While the number of Muslims in Canada who support jihad against their fellow countrymen and the CBC’s less than overwhelming reaction to this startling news contain no surprises, many Canadians would probably be stupefied if they discovered how many of their Muslim fellow citizens would like to see Canada’s liberal-democratic political and social order replaced by Islamic Sharia law. Polls in England and Germany containing this highly enlightening question have already disclosed that almost a third of the Muslims living in these countries would like to see Sharia become the law of their lands.

In the end it is these Muslims who represent a greater threat to Western civilization than the jihadists themselves. One of their tactics is to bring about the disappearance of our liberal-democratic order through legal, peaceful means, destroying its foundations bit by bit. And as the left has likewise so gradually, and successfully, transformed society since the 1960s, the march towards a sharia-dominated state will also not be an overnight revolution. But in forty years many may be forced to admit that a revolution it has been.