Rehabilitating Canadian Islamic State Jihadists?
"I dream about one day bringing all the militants to justice, not just the leaders like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi but all the guards and slave owners, every man who pulled a trigger and pushed my brothers' bodies into their mass grave, every fighter who tried to brainwash young boys into hating their mothers for being Yazidi ..."
"They should all be put on trial before the entire world, like the Nazi leaders after World War II, and not given the chance to hide."
Nadia Murad, 25, Yazidi, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Laureate
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| ‘Devil worshippers’: torture inflicted on the Yazidi people by Isis includes rape, stealing children and forced conversions – researchers say the true scale of suffering cannot be charted ( ) |
"Processes, both here in Canada and in the courts of international law, to bring perpetrators of atrocity crimes to justice, are slow and rarely work."
"Canada should lead immediate reforms to ensure justice is swift, both within our own domestic policy and abroad."
"To date this government under Justin Trudeau has failed to take action, and Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are calling on the Prime Minister to immediately table a plan to serve justice to anyone who left our country to fight with this terrorist organization."
Michelle Rempel, Member of Parliament, Conservative critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
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Children play with a kite at a shelter for displaced Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, northern Iraq.
Credit: Richard Hall/PRI
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"[ISIL rapists, genocidaires propagandists and collaborators must be brought to justice. The House of Commons should support Murad’s appeal for justice and the government is called upon] to refrain from repeating past mistakes of paying terrorists with taxpayers dollars or trying to reintegrate returning terrorists back into Canadian society, but rather table, within 45 days after the adoption of this motion, a plan to immediately bring to justice anyone, including those who are in Canada, or have Canadian citizenship, and have fought as an ISIS terrorist or participated in any terrorist activity."
House of Commons motion by MPs Rempel and Pierre Paul-Hus, Opposition critic for Public Safety
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| Displaced Iraqi women from the Yazidi community, who fled violence from the Islamic State (IS) group, gather around tents at a refugee camp on Mount Sinjar, on 15 January 2015 (AFP) |
The not-so-oblique reference to the over $10-million of public funds the Liberal government doled out to convicted 'child-soldier' Omar Khadr who had been trained as an al-Qaeda-affiliate by the Taliban to produce explosive devices and fight alongside the Taliban against NATO troops established in Afghanistan to free it from the grip of terrorist groups and was found guilty in the bombing death of a U.S. medic and the blinding of another, represents a condemnation of the Liberal's governments soft approach to Canadians binding themselves to deadly jihad.
Despite which pointed reference, Members of Parliament found it morally problematical not to support the motion, invoking the name, reputation and cause of a Nobel Laureate, so the motion was passed but for one dissenter. Member of Parliament Michelle Rempel is a robust defender of Yazidis, the ethnic-religious group that Islamic State targeted for mass murder of the men and slavery of children and women. Yazidis were not the only group viciously murdered by ISIL, Christians and Shia Muslims were also the targets of the Sunni-sect Islamists.
But it was the horrible plight of the Yazidis that drew international attention, when thousands of men, women and children fled Sinjar, their main city as it and countless towns and villages nearby were invaded by ISIL, men slaughtered and girls and women taken into captive custody as sex slaves to be violently abused and bartered. Those that could escape made their way up Mount Sinjar, to starve and to freeze to death. Kurdish factions led many of them down the mountain to safety, if refugee camps can be designated as 'safe'. Yet thousands of Yazidis remain marooned on the mountain.
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| Patients and relatives wait in the psychiatric unit of the public Azadi Hospital, in Duhok, Northern Iraq (MEE/Sebastian Castelier) |
Canadian Muslims who left Canada for the allure of joining the ISIL caliphate and engage in jihad as the Koran demands of its faithful, appear now to be less enamoured of their chosen flight, weary of murder, rape and beheading. And these are the eventual returnees that Justin Trudeau muses about rehabilitating and 'reintegrating' into Canadian society. They were never really 'integrated' into Canadian society to begin with, else the values of human decency and the rights deserving of all people would have been theirs.
Those expressing any degree of sympathy for men who now claim they are innocent of committing any form of violence while with Islamic State, and only joined because they felt it their sacramental duty, have no place in Canadian society, although there should be made ample space for them in federal high-security penal institutions where they should moulder for a period of time comparable to the lifetime of those who were murdered in obedience to Islam State's viral jihad of atrocities.
Kurdish militias succeeded in defanging the horrible threat of an expanding territory for the ISIL caliphate. Kurdish soldiers took Islamic State terrorists into custody, along with their wives and their children. The women were just as involved in volunteering themselves for life in a terrorist caliphate as were the fighters whom they married and bore children for. Children who were themselves soon enlisted in ISIL programs to be taught the fundamentals of violating human rights and conducting various atrocities alongside their elders.
The Kurds understandably have no love for those they hold prisoner, and await the opportunity to surrender them to the countries from which they came. Unfortunately, those countries have no idea what to do with their terrorist citizens. These are not people who can be rehabilitated. The evil they represent and the horrors they perpetrated on helpless victims speaks volumes about their orientation and their representation as potential future members of any decent society. They have earned the right to rot in Hell; failing that, to spend eternity confined within solitary bleak prison cells.
Labels: Canada, Europe, Iraq, Islamic State, Justice, Syria, Terrorists
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, October 25, 2018
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