Canada foils Iranian plot to murder Ex Attorney General Irwin Cotler

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Turkish prosecutor drops case against theologian, imam over incitement claims

An Istanbul public prosecutor has ruled to drop charges against theologian Ebubekir Sifil and Imam Halil Konakcı for suggesting not practicing Islam was punishable by beating or death. The office stated that the remarks did not "incite public to hatred."
Friday November 15 2024 01:08 pm


An Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office ruled that no prosecution was required for Islamic figures Ebubekir Sifil and Imam Halil Konakcı, who had stated that people who did not perform Islamic prayers may be beaten or killed.

The prosecutor's office decided that there was no “basis for prosecution” against Sifil and Konakcı, according to reporting by the daily BirGün.

Theologian Ebubekir Sifil stated, “If a person deliberately and continuously neglects prayer, they may be punished. They may be summoned, reprimanded, summoned again, warned, summoned again, and beaten. If they persist, they may be killed as a discretionary punishment.”

Halil Konakcı, an imam in Istanbul had posted on his social media account, “There is compulsion in religion. How? There is a legal penalty for not praying. It may not be enforced now, but there is a penalty for not fasting—beating. So, there is compulsion.”

Lawyers from the communist People’s Liberation Party (HKP) filed a criminal complaint against the religious figures for “openly inciting hatred and hostility.”

The ensuing investigation concluded with the decision not to pursue charges against Sifil and Konakcı.

In the decision, the prosecutor’s office stated that the speech in question was transcribed in full by an expert, who understood that Konakcı’s June 2023 speech was referencing a novel by author Laurie Penny. “(Konakcı) expressed his opinions based on his beliefs, and attempted to explain the concept of modesty within Islamic rules, without intending to target, provoke, or insult any group,” ruled the prosecutor.

The prosecutor’s decision concluded that the material and moral elements listed in Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Code were not present, and thus no prosecution was pursued against the suspects.

 

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He criticized the Iranians back in the day. Amazing they still want to kill him. I think they brought a Canadian passenger plane a few years back.

A source said authorities had knowledge of two suspects in the plot, but it is unknown whether they were arrested or fled the country.
Canadian security forces last month foiled an Iranian assassination plot against Irwin Cotler, the Jewish former politician and human rights advocate, the country’s The Globe and Mail reported on Monday.

A source told the daily that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned the former Liberal justice minister on Oct. 26 that he was the target of an “imminent threat of assassination within 48 hours from Iranian agents.”

The source said authorities had knowledge of two suspects in the plot, but it is unknown whether they were arrested or fled the country. The RCMP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The source claimed to The Globe and Mail that Cotler was informed last week that the threat level against him had been significantly lowered.

Cotler, 84, has reportedly been under 24/7 RCMP protection since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led cross-border massacre in Israel’s northwestern Negev. Canadian Security Intelligence Service told him that he was a high-profile target of Tehran, a long-time sponsor of the terror group.

The protection provided to Cotler by Canadian authorities was said to include bulletproof vehicles, armed bodyguards and other measures.

“After Oct. 7, my wife and I attended the March for Israel in Washington, D.C. When we flew back to Montreal, security asked us not to leave the airport. Security personnel spoke to me and informed me of what has been characterized as imminent and lethal threats, without going into further details,” Cotler said in an interview with JNS earlier this year.

The international legal scholar noted at the time that “the community of democracies including Canada does not understand the threat of Iran.”
Cotler, who served as Canada’s minister of justice and attorney general between 2003 and 2006, has been on the Islamic Republic’s radar for his calls to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity.

The Jewish jurist has also represented Iranian political prisoners and is a strong supporter of Israel. He was Canada’s special envoy on Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism from 2020 to 2023.

Cotler currently serves as the international chair of the Canada-based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, which he founded in 2015.

Something the western genius politicians just don't get, these terror states remember past 3 days and the most recent Tick Tok, 9/11 was over 15 years in the planning, Salman Rushdie still can't go outside alone and his book was published in 1988, once a person is declared an enemy of the state it lasts until they are dead or murdered.
 

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