How many Muslims in Canada have you heard publicly denouncing the terrorist attacks on the United States or terrorism in the Middle East?
Members of Toronto's Muslim community say that new revelations about the Khadrs have caused them to turn their backs on the militant Islamist Canadians, whose ranks include a rogue son who says he left the fold to become a U.S. spy.
[. . . .] These new admissions have shattered the faith of friends and family who have long wanted to see the Khadrs as good Muslims who left Canada years ago to help Afghan widows.
"I feel betrayed," said Aly Hindy, a Toronto Muslim leader and long-time family friend. "For the first time, now I feel that CSIS was right," he told The Globe. "They are not wrong every time. This time, I was wrong and they were right."
Mr. Hindy has frequently complained that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has wrongly targeted the Khadrs, among other local Muslims. But his remarks are not even the most scathing indictment of the family.
Fatmah Elsamnah, Abdurahman Khadr's mother-in-law, told The Globe yesterday she would not let her own blood relatives back in her Scarborough house. [. . . .]
Nor would she let her own grandson Abdurahman come back. "If he's going to be like that, he's not my grandson any more," she said.
Which side is she on, then? The part of the family which supports Al Qaeda? Or Abdurahman who claims--and we do not know whether he is lying--that he now wants to be a good Canadian? What, exactly, is she saying? Is she a traitor to Canada? NJC
He left her house only three days ago, for places unknown, [. . . .]
Mr. Khadr has admitted to lying in the past, but now says he is coming clean with "the real story." Incredible as it is, it's an altogether more plausible version of events than he told reporters when he first returned to Canada last fall.
[. . . .] After being separated from his family in the fall of 2001 in Afghanistan, he was captured by the Northern Alliance and handed to U.S. forces.
He was asked if whether he would go to work for them and did. [. . . . He] took a series of U.S. intelligence agents around Kabul, showing them where the al-Qaeda safe houses were.
[. . . .] He developed a crush on his female CIA handler -- "She became really dear to my heart" -- who persuaded him to go underground as a mole at the military prison run by the U.S. at its Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
[. . . .] The CIA then gave him a course in undercover work and a fake Moroccan passport, and sent him off to infiltrate a Bosnian mosque.
[. . . .] Mr. Khadr came home last fall to Toronto to appear at a news conference that he now admits was mostly lies. He could not be reached by The Globe yesterday.
[. . . .] In Pakistan, Mr. Khadr's sister Zaynab told the CBC that if her brother "did something, I'd be ashamed of him. Because Islamically you're not allowed to co-operate with the enemy, it will cost you your life."
One of the Khadr brothers remains a prisoner in Cuba, another is being hunted as a terror suspect in Pakistan and a third is recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in the raid that killed their father. Their sister and mother are living free in that country.
