Notorious Calgary Imam receives death threat, says ISIS actively recruiting in Canada.

Notorius Calgary Imam receives death threat, says ISIS actively recruiting in Canada.(AA).

A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned Friday that Islamist militant group ISIS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat.

Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), called on Canadian and Western authorities to intensify the fight against Islamist militant movements.

"Absolutely I am convinced that this recruitment is going on right here in this country, under our noses, in our universities, in our colleges, in the places of worship, in our community," he told CBC public television.

Soharwardy added that a Muslim man from Ottawa who was fighting with ISIS in Mosul in northern Iraq had sent him a death threat on Facebook.

"He was condemning me for condemning ISIS, and he was saying that 'You are a deviant imam and your version of Islam is not the right version,'" Soharwardy said, using another acronym by which ISIS is known.

The Calgary-based imam said such threats were nothing new.

"I get death threats from everybody," he said, adding that "just last month I had a death threat posted on a website."

In February, intelligence services said at least 130 Canadians were fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

"Three Calgarian young fellows died in Iraq and Syria fighting for ISIS. One of them was very known to me," he said.

"These people are brainwashing people here in this country," he added.

Soharwardy also began a 48-hour hunger strike "to create awareness about the dangerous nature of ISIS" and pay homage to American journalist James Foley, who was executed by his jihadist captors in a video released Tuesday by ISIS.


“This whole epidemic of Muslim youth getting involved is quite alarming...I will reach out to as many of them as I can, especially those on the borderline,” he said, adding he’s been in touch with Canadian authorities about his latest contacts with extremists.

But they haven’t been the only ones critical of him, he said.

Members of his community have called him a hypocrite for condemning ISIS while Israel kills Palestinians in Gaza, said Soharwardy.

And non-Muslims wrath has increased over ISIS’s crimes, he said.

“I’m getting it from Muslims and non-Muslims,” said Soharwardy, adding the hunger strike also promotes understanding of Islam.


The 'Peaceful and Moderate' Imam forgets to mention that his past is not so 'innocent' as well.

Here’s an article in the Sun written by Ezra Levant.

Syed Soharwardy, a radical Pakistan-born Muslim imam in Calgary, says a lot of offensive things.

He says Canada treats Muslims the way Nazi Germany treated Jews.

Funny he mentioned Nazis. Because for many years his own website said “the nation of Jews will be exterminated.” 

He attended a protest that flew the flag of the terrorist group Hezbollah, right across the street from Calgary’s Jewish community centre. Hmmm....Perhaps ISIS believes he has become to Moderate?