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Obey laws of Canada: Iraqi cleric
Muslims urged to support country Al-Sistani seen

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Jun. 15, 2006. 05:37 AM
SEAN GORDON
QUEBEC BUREAU CHIEF


MONTREAL—Keen to portray their faith as one of peace and tolerance, a group of Canadian Muslim leaders held up a religious edict from an influential Iraqi cleric that directs all followers of Islam living in Canada to protect the country and to respect its laws.

The North American representative for Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani — the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite Muslims — met with the media to read the fatwa, which is a legal opinion drafted by Islamic scholars.

The document calls on all Muslims to protect and "act in the best interests of the country in which they live.

"We condemn all forms of violence and ask the Canadian government to investigate any act or gesture that might have harmful repercussions on our common security," said Sayed Nabil Abbas, who read from al-Sistani's statement.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... &t=TS_Home

Canada is nice and easy going counrty...but evrybody has there limits these people push thier nonesense too far and even goood old Canada becomes nervous.

On Tuesday's national post: cover with muslim women wearing full niqab with only their eyes, and the headline reads: multiculturalism in Canada becoming extreme???

Where my girl lives in the Eastend its common to see burqa, the majority of them Pakistani. But the Post is a wannabe rightwing rag anyway.

^ so what if it is? our goverment is also right winged now..so there is alot of change going on, But Harper is very secretive...like he banned public services for fallen soldiers, but the news papers/media are very hush hush on this government....and that is very Dangerous.

I agree. But after Mulroney, Canadians are VERY skittish on Conservative politics. He only got in because the Liberals had no viable alternative, and we'd had enough of Martin. After they get a leader, (I think Gerard Kennedy) they'll be re elected.