The early months of 2011 were filled with news of the ‘Arab Spring,’ a brief and ill-fated movement toward the establishment of constitutional republics in several Muslim majority states in the mid-East and in northern Africa.
Although idealistic, the movement failed, and in the end, succeeded in merely replacing cruel secular dictators with cruel Islamic governments. Egypt and Libya now organized their states around words like Qur’an, Jihad, Hadith, and Shari’a.
The political leaders within the RCMP, hoping to appease or mollify activist Muslims in Canada, issued instructions in booklet for RCMP officers dealing with the public. In addition, as Brian Lilley writes, the booklet attempted to affirm the oppressive governments taking root in the Near East:
The document also makes a defense of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that now controls much of Egypt. During his campaign for the Egyptian presidency, Mohammed Morsi, a man closely tied to the Brotherhood, told a crowd, “The Qur’an is our constitution. The Prophet Mohammed is our leader. Jihad is our path and death for the sake of Allah is our most lofty aspiration.”
Islamic terror attacks, both in North America and around the world, during the years following the internal publication of this RCMP text reveal that it is somewhat naive.
