Any Rotten Berth In A Storm: Canada
Little wonder Canada has no affection to spare for the infamous Khadr family, imposed upon our hospitality by the simple expedient of citizenship. For Canada has become a witless harborer of indelicately unsavoury individuals who appear to value her protective shores as a refuge and her passport as a guarantor of safe passage while setting off into the wide world to spread chaos and murderous terror in their Islamist cause.Unstoppable, fervently determined to maintain their struggle against their "oppressors", their strategic and ferocious determination to usher into reality an Islamic ascendency in the world, they do their utmost to spread terror where they may, where freedom asserts itself and democratic guards are relaxed and their surging numbers unsuspected. Ahmed Khadr and his wife, Maha, both of whom reviled the decadent vileness of the West, brought their children up in Toronto.
A safe haven, albeit considered by them to be a "dirty swamp", according to a recently published on-line compendium of biographical sketches commemorating Islamists of note. Khadr pere raised "charitable" funds while living in Canada, to be sent abroad, to further the work of such notorious messengers of peace as Osama bin Laden, with whom the family held a warm personal relationship. Bin Laden attended their oldest daughter, Zaynab's, wedding.
The sons, Abdullah, Abdurahman, Abdulkareem and Omar accompanied their parents to Pakistan for jihadist training in 1985, in special terrorism-training camps. The youngest, Omar, sits still in Guantanamo, the only al-Qaeda prisoner of Western-origin left there now, the others having been repatriated by Australia and Great Britain. A mere 15 when he was detained and accused of grenading a U.S. army medic and now 21, many demand his protection as a child soldier.
The government of Canada has come under harsh criticism from human-rights activists for not intervening on his behalf and bringing him "back home" to Canada. Where his mother, his young sister and brothers now live, one of whom has publicly denounced al-Qaeda and forsworn his allegiance to terrorism. Pakistan no longer appears to be their domicile of choice; the offspring appear content to live now in Canada, quiescent.
Whereas their mother, on her return, spat ferocious contempt at the corrupt Western lifestyle and values, demeaning herself of necessity by living in freedom in Toronto, unapologetic about her continued allegiance to the cause of jihad. The on-line tribute to Egyptian-born Ahmed paints him as who one lived purposefully if not reluctantly, in Canada to collect funds and receive free treatment for his war wounds.
The senior Khadr is honoured because, following the 9-11 attacks none other than Osama bin Laden placed him in charge of a region of Logar in Afghanistan's east, where he nobly pursued the cause of the Taliban. The man was killed in a shoot-out with Pakistani soldiers in 2003. With this kind of legacy, can it be any puzzle that the Canadian government is loathe to intervene on his youngest son's behalf?
Canada's First Family of Terror should be immortalized as Canada's last family of terror, just another slight and unfortunate footnote in Canadian history.
Labels: Canada, Particularities/Peculiarities, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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