Harper says 'Islamicism' biggest threat

[grumpydigger]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... rview.html an exclusive interview with CBC News, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the biggest security threat to Canada a decade after 9/11 is Islamic terrorism.

In a wide-ranging interview with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge that will air in its entirety on The National Thursday night, Harper says Canada is safer than it was on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaeda attacked the U.S., but that "the major threat is still Islamicism."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge about how Canada changed after 9/11. Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge about how Canada changed after 9/11. CBC

"There are other threats out there, but that is the one that I can tell you occupies the security apparatus most regularly in terms of actual terrorist threats," Harper said.

Harper cautioned that terrorist threats can "come out of the blue" from a different source, such as the recent Norway attacks, where a lone gunman who hated Muslims killed 77 people.

But Harper said terrorism by Islamic radicals is still the top threat, though a "diffuse" one.
Full interview Thursday

CBC's exclusive interview with Stephen Harper about how 9/11 changed Canada, and how it changed him, runs this Thursday night on The National.

"When people think of Islamic terrorism, they think of Afghanistan, or maybe they think of some place in the Middle East, but the truth is that threat exists all over the world," he said, citing domestic terrorism in Nigeria.

The prime minister said home-grown Islamic radicals in Canada are "also something that we keep an eye on."
Tories to resurrect controversial anti-terrorism laws

Harper said his government will bring back anti-terrorism clauses that were brought in in 2001 but were sunset in 2007 amid heated political debate.

There were two clauses at the heart of the debate:

One allowed police to arrest suspects without a warrant and detain them for three days without charges if police believed a terrorist act may have been committed.
The other allowed a judge to compel a witness to testify in secret about past associations or perhaps pending acts under penalty of going to jail if the witness didn't comply.

SPECIAL REPORT A decade later, revisiting Sept. 11

Neither clause was used by police or prosecutors in the five years before they expired.

In October 2006, a parliamentary committee recommended extending the two provisions.

The Conservatives put forward a proposal to keep the measures in place for three more years, but the three opposition parties united to defeat the proposal in February 2007 by a 159-124 vote.

The rest of the legislation remained in force.

When asked by Mansbridge if he would try to bring those laws back, Harper replied: "That is our plan."

"We think those measures are necessary. We think they've been useful," he said. "And as you know … they're applied rarely, but there are times where they're needed."

[grumpydigger]

With Harper finally getting his majority,And the anniversary of 9/11 . Harper has his opportunity to spread the George Bush like terror To the Canadian citizens..

It's a good opportunity, to continually erode the Canadian rights and freedoms and push his version of a police state on the Canadian people

[steven lloyd]

Another benefit of these multi-functional jets is that they could be used on identified domestic targets (mosques and such):

[logicalview]

With Harper finally getting his majority,And the anniversary of 9/11 . Harper has his opportunity to spread the George Bush like terror To the Canadian citizens..

It's a good opportunity, to continually erode the Canadian rights and freedoms and push his version of a police state on the Canadian people

Isn't it wonderful.

Pure bliss.

It's past time to take back what was once our country from those that abuse and *bleep* away what men and women sacrificed their lives for.

Enjoy your "police state"!!!

[steelrules]

This Harper guy want's to be George Bush III.
What a Fool , look what that's done to the US.

[rookie314]

What a load of fertilizer. Hard to top the load you guys are putting out.

[CJT84]

He's technically right only because there's no one else who wants to bomb Canada at all. The threat is minuscule however and not worth infringing liberties over.

[Lady tehMa]

This is worth listening to, if you can sit through the 10 second ad at the beginning.

http://www.livestream.com/ideacity/video?clipId=flv_fd017d81-dc18-42cc-821a-18b86fdea840

It is a talk from IdeaCity 2011 by Tarek Fatah, a Marxist Muslim. He has his own opinion of things.

[Sn0man]

Harper is a little nuts IMO.

Hear about his policy to refer to the Cons as the "Harper Government""?

Sounds a bit like the Americans calling their govt the "Obama Administration".

Apparently he wants a portrait of the queen, and himself of course, on every embassy wall.

And he seems to think that civil liberties can take a back seat to tyranny and oppression.

[steelrules]

Harper The Chancellor?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhsvmY3Q ... re=related

[steelrules]

Canada working with the US to pressure nations to reject Palestinian statehood at the UN, WHY?
Is this what we Canadians want to be known for?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... state.html

[unclemarty]

This is worth listening to, if you can sit through the 10 second ad at the beginning.

http://www.livestream.com/ideacity/video?clipId=flv_fd017d81-dc18-42cc-821a-18b86fdea840

It is a talk from IdeaCity 2011 by Tarek Fatah, a Marxist Muslim. He has his own opinion of things.

Good find Lady tehMa.

Just waiting for someone to accuse him of being "islamophobic" ... [ crickets ]

[WhatThe]

Harper is our very own domestic terrorist; a threat to this country larger than any other.

[Glacier]

Harper is our very own domestic terrorist; a threat to this country larger than any other.

In light of Lady tehMa's video above, I respectfully disagree.

[Homeownertoo]

Encouraging to hear Harper say what is so politically incorrect, but so necessary to hear from politicians.