By TU THANH HA

MONTREAL, QUEBEC – Montreal terrorism suspect Adil Charkaoui is considering legal action against a local imam after damaging remarks about him were posted on the Internet, portraying him as a restless radical fixated on waging jihad.

Posted last fall on a Muslim online forum, the comments allege that Mr. Charkaoui and his friends were looking for ways to make al-udda, meaning preparations for holy war.

“The people in that little group … were constantly repeating that they had to leave for Afghanistan to perform al-udda and for them, nothing in Islam was more important than jihad.”

The author said he was a Montreal imam who heard the Moroccan-born Mr. Charkaoui tell him that they lived in a country of kuffars (non-believers) and, therefore, “it was acceptable to take the belongings and the women of the kuffars since it was fay (war booty).”

The author said he was Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus al-Hayiti, a Haitian-born convert who is the imam at the Dar Al-Arqam mosque in north-end Montreal.

He said that Mr. Charkaoui told him that he was initially a follower of the Islamist organization Al Adl wal Ihsane, which advocates higher learning to promote reform, but that he “realized this wasn’t the right method.”

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