Friday, November 13, 2009

Windsor, Ontario Police Chief Apologizes To Muslim Community After Arresting Two Jihadis


Good grief. I heard about this and thought it couldn't be true but then, yep...I found the story here at CBC News. Here's the crux of it....Windsor police along with RCMP officers arrest two jihadis in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and during the arrest, follow procedures to ensure that all people present aren't armed and dangerous. And of course, one of the police officers apparently made the greatest sin of all in islam of actually touching a woman (family member of one of the jihadis who could have had a weapon under her burqa). So now, the police chief of Windsor has apologized to every bloody muslim in all of Canada, pretty much and promises that all of his officers will undergo "training" so it won't happen again.

So, let's fast forward six months when every Windsor policeman is now "trained" not to frisk down muslims and we witness Windsor police laying dead in the street from weapons that the islamists were concealing.

Let me ask this question. If Islam required that every follower carry a .45 caliber on them, would the police chief have to apologize for insulting the religion by taking away one of the raghead's weapons?

p.s. at the bottom of the CBC News article, you will see this:

" Commenting on this story has been closed early due to numerous violations of our submission guidelines. "


Police chief apologizes to Windsor's Islamic community

Windsor, Ont.'s chief of police has publicly apologized to the city's Islamic community after officers who arrested two Muslim men suspected of involvement in a radical Islamist group offended and embarrassed the men's families in the process.
"We're looking at what we can do differently, what we would do differently here, and that's going to take us a little while longer," Chief Gary Smith told a news conference on Thursday.
His comments relate to an incident on Oct. 30 during which Windsor police assisted the RCMP in arresting Yassir Ali Khan, 30, and Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33. The two were wanted by the the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
During that arrest, the wife of one of the suspects was patted down by a male officer.
"One of the things we'll be looking at is: how do we bring female officers that aren't tactically trained inside a centre of a perimeter, and should we have done it this time, could we have done it better?" Smith said.
Reading from a statement, Smith said it "was never the intention for Windsor police to offend or embarrass the families or our Islamic community.

"The actions taken did cause embarrassment and did offend their religious beliefs," Smith added. "I sincerely apologize to the families and the Islamic community."
Khan and Al-Sahli were co-operative during their arrests, as were their families, Smith said.
But according to their lawyer, Patrick Ducharme, officers showed up with guns drawn in the presence of "terrified children" outside at least one of the homes where the men were arrested.
"In the course of the arrest, officers on the scene had interaction with the families of both men," Smith said. "It is this interaction that raised concerns among the family members and the Islamic community about the cultural sensitivity of Windsor police officers."
Officers had received sensitivity training in 2007 in the form of about 12 panel discussions involving representatives of different cultural backgrounds, according to spokesman Sgt. Brett Corey. But the training "was too generic and a more thorough presentation" to officers is needed, Smith said.
New training is being scheduled, Smith said, and will be given by Murad Aktas of the Windsor Islamic Association, which represents about 25,000 Muslims in Windsor and Essex County.
Aktas could not be reached for comment.
Ed Parent, president of the Windsor Police Association, objected to Smith's apology, saying that proper procedures were followed during the arrests.

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