Foreign Affairs committee  The answer is yes. You can see the evidence on YouTube of how they organize the youth in mosques, in groups, teaching them the tenet of Islam according to the ideology of the Islamic State. You can see training with guns, with AK-47s and everything. They are prepared and they p

Foreign Affairs committee  Are you quoting from the sermon?

Foreign Affairs committee  No, what your saying is quoting from the sermon of the imam.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, I know that. What he said is not what you said. That's not his argument. His argument is totally different. I recommend that you listen to him and to read exactly what he said. It's not the same logic at all. He blamed Canada for the situation in Syria and Iraq. He blamed t

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, the major Islamic organizations in Canada repeatedly denounced, condemned, the Islamic State, but in analyzing the position of the Muslim community in Canada, I noticed that possibly all the major organizations also oppose any military action against the Islamic Sta

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the root causes of the conflict is the Sunni-Shiite rift in the Middle East. You could say that the main interest of Iran is to curb ISIS. The interest of Iran goes in Lebanon to the Hezbollah, in Syria to the Alawites. Iraq is mainly Shiite, and their explicit aspirations

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, millions of dollars have been funnelled to Syria since 2011 to support the fighters/militants/jihadists/mujahedeen that fought against the al-Assad regime. Some of the money went to other groups like Jabhat al-Nusra and groups that really are affiliated or joined th

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that's what I want to add. We have to look into that from an Iraqi perspective, not from a Canadian perspective, which means that the cost of living in Syria and Iraq is totally different from what we expect here in Canada, and with more money, you can do much more. I think

Foreign Affairs committee  I think there are two silent partners to the coalition. One is Israel and the second is Iran. They are not involved in the coalition officially, but both countries have interests in the area. We see it from time to time in different actions that are taken by both countries.

Foreign Affairs committee  I mean tolerance.

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you mean state-building in Syria and Iraq?

Foreign Affairs committee  They've built different levels of government, which means police, courts, an educational system, and law enforcement agencies. You can see that they are doing very well in Syria and Iraq. This is ISIS; this is the Islamic State.

Foreign Affairs committee  Israel is definitely worried, because Israel is also targeted by the Islamic State. The Islamic State sets priorities. The first priority is to build a state in Syria and Iraq. This is the base for launching the second stage of jihad. They target specifically Saudi Arabia and J

Foreign Affairs committee  The problems with extremism go back to the roots of radicalism. We are talking about the ideas of the caliphate. When someone says that the ideas of the caliphate do not represent Muslims or the Muslim community in Canada, I think that should be corroborated, because the essence,

Foreign Affairs committee  Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with the committee about Canada's response to the violence, religious persecution, and dislocation caused by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The group’s official name is the Islamic State, and it is also known by th