Limits To Facilitation In One's Own Demise
Really, it's more than a little amazing at how easily jihadists have been able to manipulate their way into the absurd situation where the very countries they strenuously seek to destroy go out of their way to ensure that those standing accused of such crimes are offered ample protection under our liberal democratic justice system. Talk about shooting ourselves in our cerebellums. The question is actually why we appear to be so willing to offer assistance to those whose intent is to do us grave harm?We begin to resemble the confused lobster who willingly leaps into the pot of boiling water, anxious to be helpful to hungry diners. Here is Canada, dealing with the prosecution of its capital city's first post 9-11 trial. Against a young man who, with his family, grew up in Ottawa, had his education there, worked on contract for the federal government's department of foreign affairs as an IT specialist, and who actively conspired with a terror cell in Great Britain to destroy the lives of as many innocents as they could manage.
Momin Khawaja was identified as an integral part of that terror cell of jihadists; surveillance caught him in self-implicating conversations with the British group who have now had their own trials and convictions and sentences, during which evidence was given that absolutely concluded that Mr. Khawaja was an important part of their incendiary plan. It was he who was in the process of designing a cell phone apparatus capable of triggering those devices to detonate bombs in popular and crowded London night-spots.
Britain has long been a hotbed of jihadist groups. The country seemed not to mind their activities as long as the carnage took place elsewhere, while the planning took place under her protective laws. She has long given refuge to Islamic fundamentalists despite protests from other countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia. Islamic preachers were permitted to induct impressionable young Muslims into violent jihad. Britain claimed that to remove these fundamentalist agitators and agents provocateurs from her soil would be to abandon them to "political persecution". How very high-minded.
Until she herself was successfully and traumatically targeted and her people themselves became victims. And then the very imams who had inducted the terrorists into the world of jihad hired lawyers at state expense to defend them and fight extradition. One such, Khalid al-Fawwaz, sought in the United States for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, cleverly used the English courts to protect him from extradition; racking up a legal bill of $60-thousand in the process, paid by public funds.
Not only do suspected, alleged, and probable terrorists use the justice system of the countries whom they seek to target, they also use the legal offices and good graces of the very ethnic group they most love to hate. Jewish lawyers seem somehow eager and willing to represent these reprehensible characters and their murderous agendas, despite their obvious anti-Semitism (Khawaja senior had an Internet web site which left no secret of his disdain and hatred of Jews).
And here is Canada, five years after Momin Khawaja was arrested and imprisoned still using all the opportunities in the legal system, aided and abetted by his lawyers, to forestall his trial, through one appeal after another. His association with an al-Qaeda cell is clear enough given the evidence on the ground, and attained through the British trial of his associates, all of whom are now serving lengthy prison terms after their May convictions.
This elusive trial, representing the first prosecution under Canada's new anti-terror provisions of its Criminal Code is yet to take place, yet Mr. Khawaja's clever lawyers have challenged the prosecution with appeals, cross-appeals and a number of legal actions all designed to stall the proceedings. Including a gambit by lead lawyer Lawrence Greenspon to have the Supreme Court of Canada dismiss the case.
What on earth is the matter with us? What is this malaise we suffer from, that we seem incapable of grasping that until and unless we take the matter of our own safety under due consideration, we invite other would-be jihadists to enact their vision of Islamist empowerment since the possible legal repercussions appear so slight in response.
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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