TORONTO -- A Canadian family that has long denied ties to al-Qaeda now admits that they are not only terrorists, but believe it's noble for them to die for the cause.
Abdurahman Khadr admitted to CBC-TV's The National on Wednesday that some of his brothers and his father fought as al-Qaeda terrorists and that they even stayed with Osama bin Laden.
And his mother and sister, interviewed in Pakistan, said they were proud of their family's connection to the terrorists behind the September 2001 attacks.
"Until now everybody says we are an al-Qaeda connected family but when I say this, just by me saying it, I just admitted we are an al-Qaeda family. We had connections to al-Qaeda," Abdurahman Khadr said in Toronto.
[. . . .] One of his sons, 14-year-old Karim, was wounded in the battle and is in a military hospital in Rawalpindi, paralysed from the waist down. Another son, Omar, was captured by U.S. forces after an attack in Afghanistan and is being held at the American jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Abdurahman Khadr, who was released from the U.S. jail and eventually returned to Toronto last year, says he wants to be a peaceful Muslim. [Can we believe this? Do we dare to take the chance? NJC]
[. . . .] Ahmed Said Khadr's wife, Maha, and 23-year-old daughter, Zaynab, say he was proud to die as a martyr, a soldier of Islam. "We believe that death comes when God had planned it, before He created the humanity, it's planned, so I just accept -- but it hurt," Maha said.
"We believe dying by the hand of your enemy," Zaynab told CBC. "My father had always wished that he would be killed ... for the sake of Allah. I remember when we were very young he would say, if you guys love me, pray for me that I get jihaded, which is killed."
Maha said she would be happy if her children died the same way. "You know we are promised that we go to heaven," she says.
My Commentary:
If you look through the archives, on several occasions I have written of the potential for terrorists amongst us, that one could not believe the Khadr family -- nor should we believe people who turn up with no documentation -- people who tell a story of hardship when, the the bigger the tear-jerker, the more likely it will get them into Canada. I was right. Some may have thought I was and am far too rabid. I beg to differ. This is only the most obvious tip of the terrorist iceberg here.
Jean Chretien actually helped get the senior Khadr released so he might return to Canada to continue his nefarious fund-raising for Al Qaeda, probably along with activity to turn other young Muslims into Shaeeds (Saheeds? -- jihadis, anyway). What pea patch did JC emerge from, anyway, that he believed the Khadr stories? Has he never listened to the lies the Third World tells to get here? Did he not care -- or did it suit his purpose and to heck with Canadian security as long as the Muslims vote Liberal? The answer is in the question, obviously. Do you still believe Maher Arar? I don't -- I don't care how sweet and innocent his wife looks and sounds in her pseudo-nun's habit.
Previously, there have been reports that the other Khadr family members, being Canadians (a perversion of our gift of Canadian citizenship, if there ever were one) wished to return to Canada. There is another son hiding out in Pakistan. Does this mean that the paralyzed Karim, Omar in Guantanamo Bay who didn't kill, of course, and this other son, whose face was never shown (on CBC's The National last night with Terry MacKenna) will not want to return to Canada -- to vote Liberal? I want Paul Martin to assure us that this is the case.
The Liberals' insistence (along with the Red Tories and NDP) on more immigration/refugees--particularly from Muslim countries--dubious multicultural policies and the touting of diversity using Canadians' tax dollars to fund it is a failure. It is time to rethink the whole thing. Make Canadians out of those who come here or turf them out. That means they must accept democracy and not bring their hatreds and their idiocy here.
In fact, we need a moratorium on immigration and refugees until we get rid of the dangerous ones still free in Canada -- after they were supposed to have been deported -- then reassess what has happened.
Complete an investigation into the immigration/stolen visas, et cetera that I have been writing on intensively for a couple of weeks and at times for the last year. If you haven't read about it, start at least with this Feb. 24, 04 post on Whistleblowing Legislation and move on to The Power Elite: A Cozy Little Network and through the rest of the sleeze, rot, and scum up to the present.
Demand that our government properly fund an investigation!
Stop funding differences; turn out Canadians! We also need a complete overhaul of the Immigration and Refugee Board; get rid of the lot and start anew.
