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Is This Logical, Legal, Just?

While France awaits the extradition of Hassan Diab - who has dual Lebanese-Canadian citizenship - from Canada, Mr. Diab, who was arrested by the RCMP in November of 2008 at the request of French authorities, has the exceptional and liberating privilege of being invited back to teach a course at Carleton University. Where his common-law wife Rania Tfaily, who believes in his innocence, also teaches.

French authorities are convinced that Mr. Diab is responsible for the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris which killed four people and injured many others. Although there has been no claim of responsibility, it is believed with good reason, that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Special Operations was behind the operation, and that Mr. Diab, as one of their operatives, was the synagogue bomber.

He has been identified by intelligence sources, his handwriting is a match for that of the bomber, and former friends have come forward to identify him as a member of the PFLP. He has been placed in France at the right time of the bombing, although he has claimed his Lebanese passport was stolen, claiming that someone else used it to enter France. Mr. Diab has been under house arrest since his apprehension.

His bail conditions are fairly strict, requiring that he wear an electronic monitor, that he obey a curfew, and report regularly to the RCMP. Before Canadian intelligence authorities were alerted by France that this 55-year-old man who has held dual Canadian citizenship since 1993 - and with it travelled widely throughout the Middle East - he taught university courses in sociology at both University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Law-abiding citizens, and people who believe that those accused of horrible crimes, including terrorist attacks against innocent civilians should stand before a criminal court of justice to either have their record and reputation cleansed of false accusation, or, having been found guilty as charged on the evidence, pay the due penalty for such atrocities against civilization. We might find ourselves abused of such naivety.

It has now been revealed that because of the extremely serious charge of murder and terrorism levied against this man - in an investigation that is still ongoing, and an extradition process that remains as yet unfulfilled - Mr. Diab's 'normal' life would not include anything aside from his current status awaiting extradition, under house arrest. But no, Carleton University appears to have received a special dispensation.

"An unforeseen leave" by the instructor who was to have taught an introductory sociology course has caught them short-handed, and the university has hired Mr. Diab to teach that course, similar to one that he has taught in the past, before it was revealed that he was under suspicion of having been involved in terrorism. His bail conditions require that he be escorted to the university, but not that an escort remain with him within the university.

He is free to teach, and to go about his business at the school which may necessitate that he show up there on a daily basis for as long as the course takes; presumably several weeks through the summer. Which startling turn of events might give many pause to take second thought about the manner in which our institutes of higher learning give soberer second thought to grave injustices committed by 'intellectuals'.

And the forgiving and understanding compassion extended to those considered to be 'resisting' what leftist-intellectuals relish considering the imperialistic and apartheid ambitions of the democratic State of Israel. Regardless of the inconvenient reality that the 'resistance' took the form of a brutally violent attack on innocent civilians, Jews and Parisians who lived far from Israel.

Tacit consent to viciously fanatic 'liberators'.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Canada, Conflict

posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, July 28, 2009