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July 6, 2006
Canada: British Muslim Cleric Denied Entry
News from Canadian Jewish News states that a hardline British Imam, Sheikh Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul-Haq, has been denied entry into Canada. The Indian-born Sheikh had been scheduled to peak at the Youth Tarbiyah conference on Friday, June 30. The conference was organised by the Islamic Foundation of Toronto.
Canada's immigration minister Monte Solberg had informed immigration officials that ul-Haq should be barred entry because his views could incite terror and hatred.
Ul-Haq belongs to the extremist Sunni school of Deoband. He graduated in a Deobandi madrassa, the Darul Uloom Al-Arabiya Al-Islamiya, based in Bury, and had been the Imam and Khatib at Birmingham Central Mosque. He often performs international lecture tours. For readers of a truly masochistic disposition, a selection of his audio lectures can be found here.
The Toronto Star had reported that Air Canada's gate security had been informed by the Canadian High Commission in London that ul-Haq could not board an Air Canada flight until he had contacted the Commission.
When it was revealed that ul-Haq was due to tour Hamilton and Montreal, as well as Toronto, and Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and gay rights groups wrote an open letter to Monte Solberg.
Ed Morgan, national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress said: "We wrote an open letter to the immigration minister with all the groups who were offended by ul-Haq. I think the force of the four groups - Muslims, Jews, Hindus and gay and lesbian groups - coming together....was quite powerful."
Deobandi teaching is virulently hostile to Western life, and believes women should be barely seen and not heard. The Taliban's leaders and scholars were all graduates of Deoband madrassas.
Born in Gujarat in 1971, ul-Haq (pictured) entered the Darul Uloom (House of Knowledge) at Bury, near Bolton in Lancashire, northern England, the age of 13. He has written two books, 'The Salah of a Believer in the Quran and Sunnah' and 'The Causes of Disunity'.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 6, 2006 5:03 AM
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I posted on this when the Jews/Christians/Gays/Hindus/Muslims spoke out against
Sheikh Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul-Haq. I have some New York Muslims who comment at my site, and one said they couldn't believe this, becase they had actually heart ul-Haq teach and there was nothing wrong with his teachings, they were all about peace.
Go figure. I don't buy it for a minute. I think a lot of our American Muslims, especially the young teens, are the ones that are confused. They will be easy to sway if the terrorists want to bring them into the jihad fold.
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at July 6, 2006 8:53 AM
I used to regularly attend Riyadh Ul-Haq's talks at Birmingham Central Mosque some years ago, long before I decided to join the ranks of unbelievers. After Taraweeh prayers were over, a few of us would remain in the prayer hall, where we would hear him talk at length about the content and significance of what had just been recited from the Qur'an.
Some of his lectures were more boring than others, except when it came to some of his favourite topics. One of them concerned the Bani Isra'eel, i.e. Jews. In fact, he loved talking and getting worked up about them. Unlike most other topics he gave sermons on, this one really got him going. His eyes fired up, his voice began dripping with passion, and he would gesticulate more energetically. As I remember it, he viewed Jews almost entirely through a conspiratorial lens; he was, and is, a man with unbridled hate for them. Evolution, freemasonry, gays, and the coming of the Dajjal were also a few of his favourite topics - I once asked him about Darwin's theory of natural selection and Ul-Haq casually dismissed the great scientist as having "mad dreams".
Projection, anyone?
Posted by: Adil at July 6, 2006 10:27 PM
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