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Fulfilling His Destiny

A mother seeks to reassure her embattled child. She will do and say just about anything to restore his faith in himself, to protect him from the bitter realization that society has sought fit to deem him a monstrous aberration whose very presence is a direct harm through his violent intent, to an entire country. A mother's worst nightmare is the loss of a child. Suicide, through extreme depression, is always a potential.

Is there a maternal obligation to teach a child - even a mature, grown child - that he has the human gift of free will, that it is within him to discipline himself, control his impulses. That he has an obligation to master himself and to care for those around him, to be knowledgeable and controlled and to function as a decent human being? That he must not, under any conditions of personal duress, seek to harm others?

That, because he is an adult, an educated individual, a privileged person living in a land that has succoured him and his family, he must be held responsible for decisions he has made that have come back to haunt him? That it is not society, holding him to account for his misdeeds, that is responsible for his travail, but his very intent to harm society?

Momin Khawaja, arrested on seven terrorist-related charges by the security and judicial agents of Government of Canada, has been found guilty on most counts that he has been charged with. The presiding judge at his trial withheld full judgement in the matter of two of the charges because of lack of sufficient evidence against Momin Khawaja. But for all intents and purposes he has been found guilty of terrorism.

Justice Douglas Rutherford found that "There is ample evidence ... Momin Khawaja knew he was dealing with a group whose objects and purposes included activity that meets the (Criminal) Code definition of terrorist activity", the judge wrote. "I have no reasonable doubt in concluding that in doing the things the evidence clearly establishes that he did, Momin Khawaja was knowingly participating in and supporting a terrorist group."

On November 18 of this year Momin Khawaja will face a sentencing hearing. At that time he will be informed of the sentence to be imposed upon him. He has been convicted on seven counts of terror-related offences. He indicted himself through his expressions of hatred and determination to avenge what he felt were atrocities visited upon Islam and Muslims through the auspices of Jews and Crusaders.

His parents, attending his trial and the judge's findings, are relieved the ordeal is over. "We are pleased he was found not guilty", his mother said. "I knew he was not involved in those dirty things." She spoke to the press eager for her comments, telling them of her family's hardships during the long period of her son's incarceration since his arrest in 2004; the suspicion people regarded them with.

She hopes, she said that her son "can come home soon". "I am a strong woman and our religious beliefs gave us a lot of hope. Hopefully, he can come home soon." During the years of his imprisonment she visited her son faithfully, twice each week. And just before the guilty verdict was handed down there was another visit with her son.

When she concernedly, and with a mother's unrestrained love told him that it was not a judge who held his future in his hands, but rather Allah. "What is going to happen is going to happen. It is the will of Allah and your destiny has already been written. It is not up to a human being and no one can change it", she consoled her son.

He was compelled to act, not of his own volition, but as a command from Allah, in whose hands lie the destiny of every believer. He is, therefore, guilty of nothing, must repent of nothing. In seeking to do God's will, he was but fulfilling his destiny.

Labels: Canada, Religion, Terrorism, Traditions

posted by Pieface @ Thursday, October 30, 2008