Rights complaint against imam rejected

The Canadian human rights commission has rejected a case against a Quebec based imam. The imam, Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al Hayit, published a book L'Islam ou l'Integrisme? A la lumière du Qor’an et de la Sounnah (Islam or Fundamentalism? In light of the Qur’an and the Sunna).

A few excerpts from the book include:

Elsewhere, the imam wrote that democracy is contrary to Islam and that Muslims should overthrow “infidel” rulers whenever they are strong enough to do so.

In an Islamic state, Jews and Christians would keep their religion but pay a fee called the jizyah. “The purpose of the jizyah is to humiliate and punish infidels to encourage them to accept Islam,” Lebuis quotes from the book.

Those of other faiths or atheists must accept Islam or “be killed.”

The author also calls for the extermination of homosexuals.

The case was rejected becausemost references within the book refer to women, westerns or infidels and these are not "identifiable group" under section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

So muslims are free to incite hatred to anyone who happens to be a woman, or infidel and nothing will happen to them. But publish a cartoon and watch out, the Canadian human rights commission will be on you like Oprah on baked ham.
Canadian Jewish News

MONTREAL — The Canadian Human Rights Commission won’t investigate a complaint against a Montreal imam who allegedly wrote disparagingly, and sometimes with violent intent, about Jews, Christians and other “infidels,” as well as homosexuals, women and democracy in general.

The complaint was lodged in April by Marc Lebuis, publisher of a Quebec-based website Point de Bascule (Tipping Point), which aims to raise awareness of what its creators perceive as the threat to western values posed by radical Islam.

Lebuis claimed Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al-Hayit disseminated hate propaganda in his book L’Islam ou l’Intégrisme? A la lumière du Qor’an et de la Sounnah (Islam or Fundamentalism? In light of the Qur’an and the Sunna) in the book’s third edition, which was published in 2006-07 on the Internet.

The commission found that the writings are not likely to expose members of any identifiable group to hatred or contempt, according to the law.