The Mounties put 17 terrorists on ice.

In the past few days we have seen terrorist plots on both sides of the Atlantic broken up by police and intelligence agencies. While the possibility of a nerve gas attack on a London subway and a three ton ammonium nitrate truck bomb taking down the CN Tower, Canada's tallest building, this was indeed a good week for the good guys. With details still sketchy, what I hope we will see is that the information that lead to these terrorist plots being broken up came from Muslims. I will wait and see.

What do we know right now? Well, we know that Muslim spokesmen in Canada are asking police to watch for anti-Muslim violence. It seems that anytime you have an arrest of Islamic terrorists, the next day there must be a press conference where law enforcement meets with local Muslim leaders to assure that the police will be not tolerate anti-Muslim violence.

'Terrorism is a dangerous ideology and a global phenomenon, as yesterday's arrests demonstrate, Canada is not immune from this ideology.'
CSIS and RCMP officials invited about a dozen members of Toronto's Muslim community to a meeting Saturday morning to discuss potential fallout.

'The police said they are cognizant of the fact that there could be a backlash and that they've taken all precautions to ensure that nothing like this happens,' Canadian Muslim Congress spokesman Tarek Fatah said Saturday.

"They are very conscious of the fact that this is a small group of criminals and they don't reflect the vast Muslim community in Toronto."

Why is it that you never see a news conference where the local Muslim leaders and the police are sitting side by side talking about how the local Muslim population turned in the terrorist from within their own community?

I would love to hear the leader of a Mosque speak at a news conference saying the poeple who make up his congregation have cleaned up the radicals who were using a Muslim holy place to recruit terrorists. The day that happens, we will have turned the corner in the War on Terror.