Source: CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/montreal/story/qc-imam20060612.html

On June 12, 2006 CBC News reported, "A Muslim cleric in Montreal was allegedly asked by a knife-carrying man if he wanted to 'die a martyr,' say police who suspect it was a hate crime. Imam Said Jazeri said he and a friend were leaving a mosque on Friday night when a man with a butcher's knife approached them. The man pointed the knife at Jazeri and asked: 'Do you want to die a martyr?' Then, Jazeri said, he asked: 'Are you carrying belts full of explosives?' Jazeri managed to call police when the man chased his friend down the street. Const. Benoit Couture said no one was hurt, but it appears the man wanted to cause the pair harm. He said investigators consider the attack a hate crime. A 34-year-old man has been charged with armed assault, uttering threats and possession of a dangerous weapon. He will appear in court on Monday for a bail hearing. Jazeri is a prominent voice in Montreal's Muslim community. His mosque was among four in the city to be vandalized after he organized a protest against the controversial editorial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad... Jaziri said the alleged knife threat 'looks like it has to do with our situation these days,' an apparent reference to the arrests in southern Ontario on June 2-3 of 17 Muslim men and youth who are accused of plotting to bomb Canadian targets and of being inspired by al-Qaeda."