Bewildering, Reprehensible Entitlement
Here's yet another instance of people simply and infuriatingly not comprehending the monumental insult against humanity that their actions represent, and in their failure to understand, demanding recompense, special dispensation. As though they are not the guilty ones, but society that does not appreciate their destructive actions as they should, as legitimate actions of the oppressed against the oppressor.And under that guise, demanding, under laws and sensibilities peculiar to the West, to liberal democracies, their just due. As though invoking the sacred image of a misunderstood, but noble warrior against a wickedly imperialist enemy automatically will enlist the sympathy and understanding of a large percentage of social-liberalist-minded defenders. Often enough this works when knowingly and craftily employed in the face of guilt-obsessed leftists.
So here's the father of a self-admitted member of al-Qaeda - whose trial in the United States found him guilty of terrorism and sentenced to life imprisonment - railing against the government of Canada for violating his son's rights under Canadian law. Mohammed Jabarah, whose middle-class life in Canada included graduation from a St.Catharines high school, followed by training in a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, admitted his guilt.
Joining al-Qaeda directly post-high-school graduation, where he met Osama bin Laden in an Afghanistan training camp, he pleaded guilty to attempting to bomb the American embassies in Manila and Singapore. The United States, understandably, and particularly in light of successful assaults against its personnel in places like Lebanon, was not dreadfully pleased with this man's mission in life, and sentenced him accordingly.
Canadian Security Intelligence Services officers gathered Mr. Jabarah back to Canada after his aborted terror mission and smoothed the way for his surrender to the FBI. His father claims that his son's life term sentence is "oppressive and unfair", claiming his son's only sin was "being Muslim". He is incensed that his son was not "offered any kind of help". As though it is a given that Canada must uphold the "rights" of a Canadian citizen whose mission is mass murder.
But Mansour Jabarah is adamant that due process was not done on his son's behalf, demanding the return of his son to Canada, along with "an official apology for both my son Mohamed Jabarah and for [the] Jabarah family, for having been suffering both morally and psychologically". What is it with these people? They cannot be blamed, they cannot be shamed.
Theirs is the only truth, the only reality. Whatever atrocities they may wish to visit upon others must be accepted as just retribution for whatever trials and tribulations they claim the world of the West has visited upon Muslims. Muslims themselves have never been implicated in events that have targeted both other Muslims and western democracies in general.
Worse: we ourselves are our own worst enemies. We apply the letter of the law rigidly to uphold the "rights" of law-abiding, normal cititizens, along with equal treatment to the rare appearance in our communities of Islamist fascists-jihadists whose purpose is to destroy the very instruments of freedom and safety under the law that Canadians enjoy.
Which explains why it is that the watchdog Security Intelligence Review Committee claimed that CSIS violated this jihadist's rights when it "arbitrarily detained" him, assisting his surrender to U.S. authorities - without consulting a lawyer. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy - along with his aggrievedly-entitled family.
Labels: Canada, Justice, Political Realities, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, March 09, 2008
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