No, it's not the Islam they were taught, it's the milk
School Ties Link Alleged Plotters Arrested Canadians Had Bonded at Clubs and on Soccer Fields
By Doug Struck Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, June 11, 2006; Page A16TORONTO -- They were school pals. One is 15. Most are just out of high school, some still in. The 17 boys and men whom Canadian police are calling "homegrown terrorists" forged their bonds in student clubs and on school soccer fields, chatted on the Internet, and urged each other to be heroes for their faith.
The arrests last weekend left many Canadians pondering how a country proud of its diverse culture and political moderation could spawn such an apparent interest in violence. Especially by people so young.
Sorry, I was wrong, it wasn't the milk, it was soccer, no - it was high school spirit
What started as boasts and youthful rhetoric crystallized into action, the government says. The youths ordered $4,000 worth of ingredients for a bomb, built a detonator and cased out targets for a two-pronged attack that would take hostages on Parliament Hill in Ottawa while setting off bombs in Toronto, prosecutors contend.
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1 Comments:
This has nothing to do with Islam. Nothing whatsoever.
The alienation these young men experience is due to a failure of the oppressive majority of Canadians to be sufficiently appreciative of different cultures which are in many ways superior to their own. A greater sensitivity and stronger emphasis on multiculturalism is required.
Unless institutionalised Canadacentric racism is abandoned, other immigrant communities such as Poles, Indians, Ukrainians, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese and Greeks are likely to express their resentment in campaigns of bombings, riots, gang-rapes, arson attacks and serial beheadings.
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