Re: Sad but true…
No dear, those of us in Toronto know him. Some personally, others as a media personality. The fact that he is cozy with noted Islamaphobes (i.e. those who even find evil intent behind our desire to eat halal), really does put him in bad company. He’s not a scholar. He’s what you would call a polemicist. He argues for the sake of arguing, and that’s how he makes his money.
The fallacy with his argument is that it presumes that extremism comes within the community. Often, in cases such as this, it exists in parallel. Nobody from the Islamic community knew what these boys were up to. In the case of the Toronto 18, it may well have been entrapment (we just won’t know…). What’s for certain, there was a (MUSLIM) mole working on behalf of the RCMP that thwarted/egged on the youths. Again, no fiery sermon at a frequented mosque to be found.
You will have some slef styled Imams who will beat the war drums once and a while, but again, they’re hardly mainstream…and denunciations of their POV go (annoyingly) unnoticed by Fatah and his likes. He would claim it’s either a ruse (Takkiyya, as most Islampahobes woud cry), or simply pretend it was not uttered.