The Canadian authorities assume that the imam will “deradicalize” Kevin Omar Mohamed. What is their basis for this assumption? They are sure that Islam is a religion of peace that young Kevin Omar has simply misunderstood, and that the imam will put him back on the straight path. They do not dare to consider the possibility that Kevin Omar Mohamed may have been “radicalized” by reading the violent exhortations of the Qur’an (“kill them wherever you find them,” 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5) and the Sunnah, in which Muhammad is depicted as saying, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.’ And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally.” (Bukhari 8:387) Their blood and property will be sacred to us – that is, left undisturbed, instead of their being killed and their property seized.

It is an iron dogma all over the West that Islam is not what its texts teach and how it has behaved for 14 centuries. How and when it changed, no one bothers to explain.

“Ontario man dubbed ‘high risk to public safety’ after trying to join terror group set for release,” by Shanifa Nasser, CBC News, February 22, 2019: