Community Meeting - The Return of Omar Khadr

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Community Meeting

THE RETURN OF OMAR KHADR
The Unholy Alliance of Islamism & The Left

Wed, July 18,
7:00 - 9:30 pm

Canada Christian College,
50 Gervais Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)

Pre-register at
canadianpatrioticsociety@gmail.com

SPEAKERS
Tarek Fatah (Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress)
Majed el Shafie (Founder, One Free World International)
Meir Weinstein (Director, Jewish Defense League- Canada).

Note: Ezra Levant will be present; sign our treason petition at the meeting

Simultaneous events on July 18th to be held in:
Montreal, Abbotsford, B.C and Edmonton, AB

Find more info here: http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2012/0 ... khadr.html

[styky]

Darn near lost breakfast when I saw this title. I hope they put it in the fiction section




Canada’s child soldier stirs strong emotions
July 15, 2012 - 4:15am By Paul W. Bennett
Omar Khadr: Oh Canada, Edited by Janice Williamson, McGill-Queen's University Press, $24.95

Omar Khadr is Canada’s most infamous child soldier. Since his capture in Afghanistan in 2002, at age 15, he has stood accused of killing an American soldier in the field of battle. Seriously wounded in a firefight, young Khadr was transferred to U.S. Bagram Air Force base and then sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp where he remains, the youngest prisoner and the only citizen of a Western country held in captivity.......................http://thechronicleherald.ca/books/1173 ... g-emotions

[RedDog]

He's not a "soldier". He's a terrorist and a "Canadian" anchor baby. Strip and ship the entire family not yet killed overseas.

[Alec Bachlow]

Keep Omar - hope the little jerk has learned his lesson when it comes to loyalty- Keep him but deport that vile little family of his. This business about the child soldier is a crock- I made a call once to an established fellow on behalf of an economist working in the Congo who need money to bring child soldiers back into mainstream society. The investment banker said "No- but I have some friend who are interested in doing some mining in the region"..That sums it up- There is no real will from our elite or in government to worry about some kids with guns...They can't even deal with the child soldiers at Jane and Finch.


This undeclared war on terror is twisted- They say Omar killed a poor "medic" a guy that helps people...he probably did seeing he was the last one standing after a fire fight and bombing by high tech jets...What was the kid supposed to do? They killed everyone in the compound...I would assume if I was Omar they were coming in to finish me off- which they were...may as well take one of them with me...having said that- It's my country right or wrong...The Khadrs are lunatics who excepted our hospitality and should have behaved like honourable house guests...But this nation was just something to be use- as were our liberal attitudes that they see as a weakness- which they are.

It's nice to see that nice man of Islam and the Jewish Defense League get together...It was unfair - You take a kid and lock him up...wait till he can grow a beard and have Harper say "Mr. Khadr has been accused of some very serious crimes"- that was cowardly- If he had shot a cop in Toronto - under the young offenders act he would be out by now.

The whole thing was a joke- They should have taken him out of Cuba and stuck him in Kingston pen - but no - they had to pander to the American paranoid cowards and torment the boy.....so what do we have now?- We still have his creepy family who will spread hate in the house of their host...and a young man who is probably mentally ill by now...This issue is a non-starter------------------------------------after 9 11 - we should have kicked the asses of those perverse and spoiled Saudi princes who allowed 9 11 to happen and probably financed the adventure.


Money and oil are so important that we have been beating on the bearded goat herders because we did not have the guts to go to the source. If someone puts a hit on your son- and murders him...........................You don't bother with the hired trigger man...You go after and destroy the person who made it happen- who put up the money that FUELED the evil deed................We have not done that- we continue to kick the peasant boy around like common cowards and bullies...Give me a break - put this thing to sleep- I don't want to hear about some risen figure head that represents the child soldier- we don't give a damn - so why pretend- Have a nice meeting .....

[homer1969]

I have written the PM and my MP, Rob Merrifield, 2x in the past month expressing my concern in regards to Omar Khadrs proposed return to Canada.

All letters were replied to by the PM and Rob.

All replies basically stated that although he's not a model citizen, but he's Canadian and we have to take him back.

Maybe the Khadr situation will be a wake up call to the Conservatives to look at reviewing current laws.

[Alec Bachlow]

Detention with out trial...should be looked into. Often I wonder if Omar was 12 years old when this mess took place would the attitudes be different?

Can't take any of his stuff seriously - America was waging war against so-called radical Islam. A campaign to root out potential terrorists that might come to our shores and do us harm...or harm national interests out side our country.


So if we were waging war against radical Judaism and Canadian Jews left Canada to go and defend what they believed was an attack against their culture...If a Jewish father took his son along..to ward off invaders of the "homeland" Would that make the Jewish son and father terrorists? Or would that make them defenders of what they perceived as cultural and religious freedom?

If AMERICA was not so dominant over Canada...our problem with Omar would be minor- everything hinged on pleasing and pacifying America which made a small problem a major national issue. We took one single person who the Americans should have either killed on the spot or released...and swelled the matter into a mountain. The whole pretense for keeping Kadar - was the idea that some how the whole American intelligence community was bankrupt..and thought they could gather information through water boarding among other things. The whole plan of Cuban detention was totally flawed........................NO ONE wanted to go near the idea that their oil trading friends were responsible for the 9 11 attacks- They could not bare to face that reality....Instead they went for punching out some dumb kid.

[styky]

Feds in no hurry to bring Khadr home


By Mark Dunn ,Senior National Reporter

First posted: Monday, July 16, 2012 02:37 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, July 16, 2012 06:19 PM EDT
OTTAWA - Vic Toews says public safety trumps the speedy return of convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr to Canada.

Toews was responding Monday to Khadr sympathizers and lawyers who are crying foul over what they perceive is foot-dragging by Ottawa to let the killer serve the remainder of his eight-year sentence in Canada.

The public safety minister said he won't be "pushed" into making a decision despite attempts by Khadr's legal team to force the matter in federal court.

Lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay inmate asked late Friday for a judicial review of the government's refusal to request U.S. officials transfer the Toronto-born, 25-year-old to a Canadian prison from his military cell in Cuba.

"I'm not going to make any decisions that would in any way jeopardize public safety. I have an obligation to satisfy myself that I have all of the relevant information before I make a decision," Toews said in Saskatchewan.

"At this point I do not have all the relevant information and I will not be pushed into making a decision that would have me consider less than the full facts.".................................http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/16/fe ... khadr-home

[styky]

Conservatives’ stalling of Omar Khadr return ‘unprecedented’: ex-diplomat

Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Jul 19, 2012 – 3:17 PM ET
TORONTO — The Harper government’s foot-dragging on the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay is unprecedented in light of the commitment it gave the United States that it would accept his transfer to Canada, a former diplomat says.

Gar Pardy, who spent more than three decades with Canada’s foreign service, said it was on the basis of that commitment that Khadr pleaded guilty before a widely maligned U.S. military commission to war crimes committed as a 15 year old.

“It’s more than extraordinary, it’s unprecedented,” Pardy said of Ottawa’s inaction.

“I don’t think there’s any enthusiasm by any of the people in the Canadian government to see him come back to Canada — they’re trying to drag it out in every way possible.”....................http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/19 ... -diplomat/

[RedDog]

He is obviously a danger to Americans, thousands of whom live in Toronto. He was taught to hate all his life.

I also don't think he can be viewed as a "regular" Canadian. He's an anchor baby of terrorists who took advantage of their hosts while assorted family members were overseas shooting at our friends and neighbours. We need legislation drawn up to remove people like this and any subsequent children they spawned here into the jihad circle or murder.

I just wish he'd have had an unfortunate fall down there and hit his head. It's not too late.

[styky]

Omar Khadr: Peace-loving Canadian or al-Qaeda royalty?
By Mark Gollom, CBC News
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 5:16 AM ET
Last Updated: Jul 19, 2012 5:03 AM ET

In preparation for his 2010 trial at a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Omar Khadr was interviewed by psychiatrists, including Dr. Michael Welner, who testified for the prosecution, and Dr. Stephen Xenakis, who worked for but ultimately did not testify for the defence.

Welner spent seven to eight hours with Khadr over two days, while Xenakis says he has spent more than 200 hours with the inmate.

The two doctors came up with vastly divergent opinions of the 25-year-old Canadian, who in a deal with prosecution pleaded guilty to the murder of Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer. Khadr was captured following a battle in Afghanistan in 2002 and accused of throwing a hand grenade that killed Speer.

Khadr, who is currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, agreed in a plea deal to a sentence of eight years, with no credit for time served, with the first year spent in U.S. custody. The U.S. has agreed to return Khadr to Canada.

Days ago, his lawyers filed a notice of application seeking to ask the Federal Court to review the federal government's failure to ask the U.S. to transfer Khadr to Canadian custody.

It seems inevitable that Khadr will eventually return to Canada, where he could be eligible for parole. But who is the real Omar Khadr? Does the former al-Qaeda fighter pose any kind of threat to Canadians?

CBC News's Mark Gollom interviewed Welner and Xenakis to ask about their different views on Khadr. Xenakis agreed to a phone interview and Welner responded by email. Below is an edited transcript of the interviews.
'Not a threat by any stretch of the imagination'........................http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... eview.html

[styky]

Canada needs sealed video footage of Khadr interviews before he can return: Toews

By Terry Davidson ,Toronto Sun

First posted: Friday, July 20, 2012 03:00 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 20, 2012 03:08 AM EDT
TORONTO - Omar Khadr won’t be coming home to Canada any time soon.

The Canadian government has balked at the return of the convicted war criminal and murderer until U.S. authorities turn over allegedly-damning video footage of psychiatrists’ interviews with the Guantanamo Bay prisoner.

In a formal letter sent Thursday to both U.S. defence secretary Leon Panetta and Khadr’s Toronto lawyer, John Norris, Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews states that in order to have Khadr sent back to serve the remainder of his sentence in Canada, officials north of the boarder must be given access to sealed video footage of separate interviews with Khadr that were carried out by two psychiatrists during the lead-up to Khadr’s trial in 2010...................http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/20/ca ... toews-says

[styky]

Jonathan Kay: Public Safety Minister ‘Ezra Toews’ relies on fringe Euro-Islamophobe to craft Canada’s Khadr policy

Jonathan Kay Jul 20, 2012 – 11:05 AM ET | Last Updated: Jul 20, 2012 11:33 AM ET
This just in: According to Public Safety Minister Ezra Toews — or should that be Vic Levant? — the Canadian government is balking at the agreed-to return of child soldier Omar Khadr from Guantanamo until U.S. authorities turn over what the Sun newspaper chain calls “allegedly-damning video footage of psychiatrists’ interviews with the Guantanamo Bay prisoner.”

In particular, Mr. Toews is looking for complete reports from one Dr. Michael Welner, who interviewed Khadr once, and appeared as an expert witness on behalf of the prosecution at Khadr’s military trial.

Who is Welner? A recent article in the Literary Review of Canada by Reg Whitaker supplies some clues. (Whitaker, in case you haven’t heard of him, is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University, member of the Advisory Panel to Justice O’Connor on the Commission of Inquiry into the Maher Arar affair, and advisor to the Commission of Inquiry into the Air India bombing on the aviation security aspects of the Air India bombing — among other distinctions):...........http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... dr-policy/

[Dogpatch]

[styky]

Bravo to Vic Toews’ boldness
Rather than accepting Omar Khadr with open arms, our public safety minister is making demands of U.S. — and rightly so
By Ezra Levant ,QMI Agency

First posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012 08:00 PM EDT
Vic Toews, Canada’s public safety minister, wrote to Leon Panetta, the U.S. secretary of defence, Thursday telling him that before Canada decides whether or not to allow Omar Khadr, the al-Qaida terrorist, to transfer here from the Pentagon’s prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Canadian government needs to see the videotapes of Khadr’s psychiatric interviews.

This is important for three reasons.

First, it’s shocking that the U.S. government has withheld this critical information about Khadr’s dangerousness from Canada, despite wanting to pawn off this murderer from their jail onto our streets.

Second, it’s an encouraging sign that Toews will not be railroaded into taking Khadr by the left-wing media-legal industrial complex in Canada, which has all concluded the celebrity terrorist is a hero, and we Canadians are the evil ones.

Rather than making a political decision, Toews is applying the law — which requires him to assess the dangerousness of Khadr before allowing him in...............http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/20/br ... s-boldness

[Peter O'Donnell]

People -- is this any way to be talking about Prime Minister Mulcair's first appointment as Governor General?

Show a little respect for the red-green masters who will rule us in the future.

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