Zachariah Anani is a former jihadist, and a convert to Christianity who recently gave a lecture in Windsor, Ontario on "the dangers of radical extremism," in which passages from the Qur'an figured prominently. Now, there is a movement among Muslim interest groups, including CAIR Canada, to charge him under a criminal code concerned with "spreading hatred in the community."
Not surprisingly, there is rather little in the national media about this affair, aside from this press release. "CAIR Canada Should Stop Bias Campaign to Arrest and Deport Muslim Convert and Refugee from Lebanon Says Shoebat" from the Walid Shoebat Foundation, via PRNewswire:
ONTARIO, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There is a growing and forceful campaign by CAIR and other Islamist organizations in Canada to silence the free speech of Zachariah Anani and undermine his legitimacy as a Canadian citizen, by calling for his arrest and deportation. Anani is a former terrorist-militant, a refugee from Lebanon and Muslim convert to Christianity. CAIR, an organization which claims to be the voice of moderation, should be embracing Anani's message against violence and the dangers of extremism instead of mounting a witch hunt against him.
It is no wonder that CAIR is attacking Anani, as it has been documented that many of the leaders of CAIR have openly supported the positions of Hamas, Hizballah and al-Queda -- all recognized terrorist organizations.
Recently, Anani spoke on the dangers of radical extremism at a church in Ontario. A backlash ensued, with CAIR and other Islamist groups pressuring political leaders to throw Anani and his family out of the country. Two members of Parliament, and one member of City Council joined the mayor of Windsor in denouncing Anani. None of these political officials, however, attended the lecture or even watched a video of it. The content of Anani's speech was almost exclusively from passages he read directly from the Koran.
Wally Chafchak, a member of the Windsor Police Services Board and the Windsor Islamic Association, is leading the charge to have Anani arrested. According to Arab American News of Michigan, CAIR Canada is also calling for Anani's arrest.
In the Criminal Code there is a section that deals with spreading hatred in the community, Chafchak said. This instance should fall under those laws. Justice can only be served if this person is charged.
But Walid Shoebat, a former terrorist from the West Bank, believes silencing Anani is a dangerous trend with far reaching implications for the future of Canadian and eventually US freedoms.
"Incarcerating or deporting a former terrorist who wants to warn the world about extremism will set a dangerous precedence for Canada," Shoebat says. "Instead of censoring free speech, CAIR should be encouraging Muslims to embrace Canadian culture, as other groups have, and not try to change it in a way that will censor the freedoms Canadians have fought and died for."
Shoebat believes that CAIR and other Islamist organizations should join Anani in encouraging Muslims to speak out against terrorism and the killing, raping, forced conversion, mutilation and other acts of violence perpetrated by Jihadist groups worldwide against non-Muslims.
Anyone attempting to silence or subdue Anani, or to have him deported, should himself be arrested and, if not a citizen, promptly deported after a hearing befoe a Special Court set up for such cases. If a citizen, then he should be stripped of his citizenship, as should all those family members who obtained citizenship either through him, or through the same circumstances, and then they should all be deported. Repeat ad libitem, or as often as necessary.
In case you don't read the whole article this little snippet was at the end of the story.
I also posted this in an earlier thread about these three former terrorists.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014934.php#c338213
The actions of CAIR once again clearly shows just what side of the fence they stand...I try to mention this every time I have the opportunity...It is amazing how many times I hear..CAIR? What't that?
We need to do a better job about getting more information to as many people as possible.
"In the Criminal Code there is a section that deals with spreading hatred in the community, Chafchak said. This instance should fall under those laws. Justice can only be served if this person is charged."
.......of course, This does not apply if a Muslim cleric is chanting "Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Christians, Death to Jews, etc."
If someone tries to gun down Anani I'll bet the silence from CAIR on that will be deafening. They're probably praying for Illah to send such "wisdom" to one of the brothers right at this very moment.
Doesn't anybody think it's strange that there's even a CAIR in Canada? The "A" in CAIR stands for American. Last time I looked Canada and America are two different countries (much to Canadians delight, I'm sure) Why isn't there a "Council for Canadian Islamic Relations? Or maybe Dougie Hooper plans to make Canada part of the Islamic Republic of America.
"In the Criminal Code there is a section that deals with spreading hatred in the community, Chafchak said. This instance should fall under those laws. Justice can only be served if this person is charged."
If we extend this line of "reasoning" to other areas, the person who pulls the fire alarm should be prosecuted while the arsonist goes free.
Brilliant.
"The content of Anani's speech was almost exclusively from passages he read directly from the Koran."
"In the Criminal Code there is a section that deals with spreading hatred in the community, Chafchak said. This instance should fall under those laws. Justice can only be served if this person is charged.
Let's assume, for a moment, that the rest of his speech contained nothing illegal or inflammatory.
Then, yes. Arrest him. Charge him. Try him.
Have him repeat, in court, the precise Qur'anic passages that Muslims believe are hateful. Exploit the situation.
Let the public know just how hateful those passages are; and to whom they are directed.
Canada (or Cana-duh) many times makes me sick. Walid Shoebat, btw, I believe was denied entrance to Canada -- JA! He's a former "terrorist" -- the only kinds of "terrorists" Canada approves of are the active ones, like the hate preachers at local mosques in Vancouver and Toronto. Canada will have no truck with "former" terrorists. That's why we have a self-avowed terrorist, jihad-supporting family living here (and who the CBC routinetly pleads for -- that's to get their jihadist son out of Gitmo, so he can join his paralyzed brother -- which Canadian tax-payers have provided him with his medical treatments, etc., due to his going on Jihad to kill Americans.) The jihadi family will NEVER be deported -- believe me. I am less convinced about the former terrorist's ability to remain in Canada. Canada, like Britain, is becoming a terrorist supporting (future exporting) state. I want jihadi terrorist out of Canada, I want the immigration of Islamic extremeists also to stop.
Wow, the stories of Anani and Shoebat are too good to be true, but with God anything is possible. Even a bloodthirsty militia leader can be saved. I hope they can come to California. I'd like to see them speak. I'll be praying that CAIR keeps their dirty f***ing (forgive me for this language but I'm mad) hands off of Zachariah Anani.
J.S.
Amen!
Immigration is the elephant in the room.
CAIR will no doubt get involved in this eventually:
Company insults soldier in Iraq, now offline
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Police Services boards in Ontario are political appointments. It would be interesting to know more about Mr. Chafak and what influence he may or may not have on the laying of charges.
Regardless, while Ernst Zundel was successfully prosecuted for his Holocaust denial activities, I am not sure that this case is quite analogous.
"Has this sanctimonious blowhard ever noticed that no one seems to be filled with Buddhismophobia, or Hinduphobia? Might that be connected to the fact that Buddhists and Hindus haven't flown any planes into any buildings -- and justified that action by means of their religious texts as they have been traditionally understood by believers"?-Robert
Every time I see a Robert question I have this image of Jesus saying, "Robert's taking on the Pharisees again. I have to send some angels to help that boy out. Oriana, now that you're a saint, go help Robert."
Oriana is already on the way.
I live in Windsor, and have watched this all unfold. The church who sponsored the talk has a very brave minister - his family have had their lives threatened since the event. That's how things work here.
If nothing else, this ought to serve as a perfect example of the importance of defending one's right to free speech. The hate speech laws were drafted to prevent Holocaust deniers the opportunity to spread their lies, and were a huge mistake, I believe. Now, of course, the Muslims use these laws against anyone who wants to point out the danger our countries are in. I would rather listen to a hundred Ernst Zundels than be threatened with being charged with hate speech simply for writing a letter to the editor of my local paper.
Every time I see a Robert question I have this image of Jesus saying, "Robert's taking on the Pharisees again. I have to send some angels to help that boy out. Oriana, now that you're a saint, go help Robert."
Oriana is already on the way.
posted by Frank
That's probably why Mr. Spencer hasn't been bumped off like so many critics of Islam have, and God forbid something does happen to him in the future. Somebody up there likes him. How does that Bette Midler song go? From a distance...
libbysmom,
The laws in Canada regarding "hate speech" are really problematic. If you don't know what constitutes "hate speech" (and I don't think even the lawyers here can provide a straight-forward answer) than this acts as a stifling of freedom to speak one's mind. Say something unkind or derogatory about Islam -- is it hate?? So, you don't say it.
Then, of course, you have the CBC broadcasting on national tv the rantings of the terrorist jihadist family expressing their loathing for Israel, etc, or someone who advocates violence towards all Israeli adults, and this is all perfectly OK -- it's not "hate." Ditto for Imams who print up neo-nazi hate literature lifted from the Internet and distributed at mosques -- it all gets a pass.
But to have a Daniel Pipes entering Canada? Well, he's read the anti-hate speech acts by the RCMP. A Shoebat, he's denied entry.
Meanwhile a radical cleric is allowed to have a video-web link-up to a "conference." (Then, as I recall there was a time when FOX News was banned, while al-jazeera was given the green light.) Go figure...What's that telling Canadians? who can you hate and who are you NOT allowed to hate? What are Canadians supposed to be thinking -- how much they just love those jihadis? or mass murderers of the bin Laden variety? (That's the consequence of having anti-hate speech legislation...and I won't even get into the Jim Keegstra crap which ended up putting the Holocaust itself on trial!...)
Former Islamic terrorists convert to Christianity and find faith and a soul.
Yup, there we have it more evidence that Christianity and Islam are equals as religions. When was the last time you heard of a Christian convert to Islam denouncing terror?
Niv
JS you're absolutely right about the hate speech problems in Canada.
This however has become a double edged sword, we've seen Holocaust deniers like Zundel imprisoned on these charges. Personally I can't disagree more with Zundels views, but the fact that he was jailed for them was an atrocity in itself.
As a result these jihadist wackos have turned these laws against freedom of speech and are using them against us to further their cause. Hate speech laws need to be removed, that is the only way a free and open society can stay that way.
I've stated countless times at work, that with the constant arguments that I have about the Islamic movement, sooner or later I'm going to get arrested on those exact charges. These laws may have been born with the spirit of something better, but they've as almost always have been turned into something completely different, and in effect are nothing but constrictions of freedom.
Niv
CAIR-Canada had Dr.Sheema Khan give evidence at the Maher Arar Inquiry and she even swore on a Quran and then later on lied like a Prayer-rug , she presented not only a bogus "Islamophobia" survey that took less than 600 anicdotal claims and projected them on CAIR's claim of 800'000 Muslims in canada, but Khan (AKA con-job Khan)
tried to portray the 19 deported Illegals with forged ID and Passports as victims of Islamophobia and Racial-profiling.
CAIR has defended several alleged Terrorists in Canada and when the evidence pops up to prove their guilt we see CAIR avoid any link to the Jihadists , in fact , the 17 Terorist arrested in June 2006 are being labelled as false arrests on bogus evidence over the 6600lbs of Amonium-Nitrate they tried to buy .
CAIR-canada has used their bigotry and anti-west hatred to post every case of vandalism to a Mosque as Islamophobia so they can demand special Hate-Laws for those harming Islam or Muslims, but CAIR doesn't even wait for the Police to arrest the Vandals to prove who actually attacked the Mosque , it's so easy to just blame those Godless Pigs because the Politicians are too afraid to point out the "Muslims that cired wolf" because CAIR will then go after them to ruin their careers .
Since CAIR is behind the whole Arar case I can only say that the USA should keep Arar on the no-fly list because CAIR and Arar have so much in common that it's not worth the risk to let him
have access to a Plane , his wife is a Palestinian and they practise the Sunni Muslim version of islam and we know the 17 arrested in Toronto were Sunni Muslims as well.
I hope that Cair is seen for what it is a unCanadian group. By the way is there anything we can do to help.
ala-sux,
Yes, I don't trust CAIR either (they strike me as being far less defenders of democracy --more like the would-be destroyers of democracy and freedom). What I also found particularly annoying with the Arar affair was how eagerly the political parties jumped on the band-wagon (even before Arar was exonerated) to get his wife into Parliament -- unbelievably irresponsible. I just could not believe it -- here there were allegations of Arar having terrorist connections, and both the Liberals and the NDP were falling over themselves to get the wife into Parliament! (I'm noticing the same phenomenon in the U.S. with Obama -- all the MSM refers to Obama as a glorious rock-star, idolized by millions...what idiocy.)
Say, I've always wanted to know what happened to Maher Arar, and if he really was tortured in Syria. Was it a crock of s*** or was this a f*** up on US intelligence's part.
The poster up above noting that Police Services Boards in Ontario were political appointments was dead on. They're generally pretty minor appointments in the grand scheme of things, though.
I was shortlisted for one a while back but ended up turning it down for something else. Anyhow, the whole point of serving on such boards is to work with the political aspects of policing, set budgets, help direct policy, etc. You're supposed to stay well away from actual police matters regarding the laying of charges and so forth.
As far as I can tell, Wally Chafchak is behaving way out of line with his role on a police board, and could be brought up on a complaint himself before the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services. I know for a fact that police services board members have been hauled before the OCCPS for much minor interferences with police matters.
Anyhow, if someone in Windsor is here and up for making a complaint, check this out:
http://www.occps.ca/
Just go to the site and click on "Public Complaints." I'm at the other end of the province, or I'd do this myself.
And the hate speech laws are an absolute joke. They never should have been passed, but a coalition of lefties got them through by claiming they were needed to protect gays. While they were used for Zundel and the like, the main issue I heard over and over again was that they were needed to protect the gay community from bashing, organized attempts to harass them, evangelical Christians, etc.
I'm all for protecting, well, pretty much everybody. But it should have been obvious all along how these laws could and would be twisted to silence people and stifle what should be free and open debates.
Oh, and right from the Windsor Police Services Board website, the relevant section of the Ontario Police Services Act:
4) The board shall not direct the chief of police with respect to specific operational decisions or with respect to the day-to-day operation of the police force.
So, seems pretty cut and dried here, isn't it? PSB members are never, ever supposed to get involved in situations like this. Wally should be booted out on his Islamic ass.
Just to finish this blitz of posts...I honestly sort of hope that Anani is charged with inciting hatred. He apparently based all of his speech on the Koran, so if he's convicted of hate-mongering, what does that say about everybody's favorite little green book? Play it right and Anani could turn things around and put the Koran on trial.
And that I would really love to see. All sorts of idiots in Windsor -- like Joe Comartin, NDP (big shock there) MP and city councillor Ron Jones -- are going on and on about this speech being hateful when all it seems to have been was a guy reading passages from the Koran. Read the freaking book and see for yourself you morons!
What a wonderful society we've built. Man, this whole thing is just making me angrier by the moment.
"... here there were allegations of Arar having terrorist connections, and both the Liberals and the NDP were falling over themselves to get the wife into Parliament!"
Posted by J.S.
Unfortunately, one has to expect that from today's NDP. After all this was the party out of which arose Marion Boyd,the lunatic former attorney general of Ontario who spearheaded the drive for the establishment of Sharia law in Ontario for the resolution of marriage cases. The MPs Marisol mentions by the way are Brian Masse and Joe Comartin. You can hear Masse spouting his idiocy at
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200701/20070116.html
And what is Jack Layton's position about the war in Afghanistan? Negotiate with the Taliban (!). I don't blame the left exclusively for the predicament we're in (from what I've read, it goes back at least as far as the Gaulist period in France and de Gaulle was certainly not leftist), but I have to say, unfortunately, that this seems to be consistent with the current position of left of centre parties in Europe, whose policies have, in effect, destroyed Europe, and possibly, civilization as we know it. Despite the Blair revolution they have still not shaken off the mental haze of the Socialist dream world that they owe their founding to and its wretched PC offspring. As a former supporter of the NDP I can say without prejudice that some of these people not only need to pay a heavy price at the polls but, if the law in this country ever gets its head out of its ass enough to recognize the danger posed by Islam, some of them deserve, at the very least, to have a real close eye kept on them, and maybe jail or ... worse.
I agree wholeheartedly with this, posted earlier by J.S.:
" ... we have a self-avowed terrorist, jihad-supporting family living here (and who the CBC routinetly pleads for -- that's to get their jihadist son out of Gitmo, so he can join his paralyzed brother -- which Canadian tax-payers have provided him with his medical treatments, etc., due to his going on Jihad to kill Americans.)
Back in August, on a different thread and a different topic I took pains to defend the honour of this country. Now, with our institutions spouting nonsensical pap like "Little Mosque on the Prairie" I can only lament "What a pathetic country this is!
I might add this: The Americans mentioned by J.S. whom that little shit Omar Khadr tried to kill (one successfully) could just have easily been Canadians! And to think that the Canadian taxpayer is on the hook for the medical bills of that bunch of riff-raff!
Brian Masse and Joe Comartin - both elected to parliament for the NDP - ought to both have a look at this if they want someone to prosecute under Canadian hate law:
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/english.htm
I've reported this site to the local police and the response? "It's too borderline, and its from a foreign source. There's nothing we can do".
So much for Section 319 (2) of the Criminal Code - that wonderful hate law that was going to keep us all safe!
outofaqaba:
The force behind the passage of Canada's laws against hateful speech was a Holocaust survivor, Sabina Citroen, who pushed for Zundel's prosecution in the 1970s under the only available laws of the day -- arguing that Zundel's allegations that the Holocaust was a lie used to extort war reparations monies from the German people constituted an act of defamation against an entire, identifiable group of people who happened to be Jewish.
templar-
That stuff on Radio Islam sounds like the stuff on a website I used to go to called whatreallyhappened.com. Like a fool, I went there because it had a huge 9/11 truth section. The idiot who runs the site blames Israel for everything. Now he has a radio show on Genesis Communications Network, which also has that crazy Texas idiot Alex Jones.
As for Radio Islam, that's run by a guy in Sweden so not much can be done in Canada.
wrathofasma,
You know I really don't know either about the verifiability of Arar's claims of torture. There was never a court of law to establish what took place in Syria -- no court evidence. So what are these claims based on? What sort of evidence is there -- other than Arar's allegations? I don't know what they are (I have heard that Arar spoke with some Canadian official when he was detained in Syria, and Arar made these claims of torture to a Canadian official, but nothing was done. Again, why? Why was nothing done? Was it because the official did not believe Arar, or did believe him but decided to ignore it? There are all these unanswered questions hovering around the Arar case. Maybe they have been answered in that inquiry -- but I didn't go over every detail -- I just followed the newspaper reports.) I think most people have simply taken his word for the torture allegations -- and now (initially btw, the media would report about "Arar's alleged torture") now, that's changed to simply "Arar's torture in Syria." The media (and I don't know how/why) is assured that Arar was tortured in Syria. That's their line (or story) anyway.
With regard to Canada's hate laws. The first case involved striking workers in Ontario (there was a union leader passing out pamphlets in front of the company; the owner/manager of the company called the cops and had the union fellow arrested for distributing "hate" materials; the case, of course, was thrown out of court; but it accomplished what the factory owner wanted, it crushed the strike).
The United States Supreme Court has made several rulings about the nature of "due process." There are two basic ways in which you can have a law deemed unconstitutional or in violation of due process -- that's to claim that a law (or how it is applied) is arbitrary or capricious. Both these terms (arbitrary and capricious) have legal definitions. Arbitrary suggests that something is being done without evidence, while capricious suggests that what's being done is unsystematic or widely variable (unpredictable). If this were the States, I'd argue that the anti-hate laws are both arbitrary and capricious. (But then since the U.S. has its First Amendment protecting Free Speech, I don't think it'd ever have such laws on the books.) Anyway, the anti-hate laws here are (imo) arbitrary and capricious.
Forgot to add, there was a study done (forgotten the name, but it's on the Internet) about speech and criminality. Even without the anti-hate laws -- speech could still get a person into trouble (according to the study which went through the Criminal Code, I believe up to a hundred different laws could be related to speech). So there's verbal harassment, there's uttering death threats, there's criminal libel, etc., etc. So, with all these other provisions in place -- why do we need anti-hate speech laws (which can be so easily politicized?)
Oh, correction with regard to the Arar story -- according to a CBS report Arar was visited by Canadian officials six times while Arar was detained in Syria -- BUT, he never mentioned being tortured. He says he was too frightened (the Syrians had warned him not to say anything).
outofaqaba, the mayor of Windsor attended a rally this summer which was openly in support of Hezbollah, and he applauded and cheered as the crowd chanted "Hezbollah my hezbollah!". Does that tell you why Chafchak is on the police board? I'm going to contact the minister of the church to see if he's interested in filing a complaint. I still haven't ruled out doing so myself, but he relaly is the one with the dog in the fight. Stay tuned.
It's really too bad we can't come up with a way to organize those of us living here in Ontario.
It seems a bit reckless for CAIR to advocate deporting Canadian citizens from Canada on the basis of their political views. That particular position might come back to haunt CAIR before too long.
snowpea,
In Canada, there is only one way to actually get somebody stripped of citizenship and deported (and "no" it's not if you happen to be a Pakistani jihadist who kills/maims Americans in a jihad -- or a Palestinian terrorist who's wanted on murder charges, etc. -- this won't get you out of Canada) What gets a person out of Canada (and also potentially stripped of Canadian citizenship) is IF you are found to have uttered a lie on your application forms in order to get into Canada. CAIR is claiming that individual X had claimed no terrorist connections (or that he wasn't a terrorist) when he applied (for citizenship? for immigration? I'm not sure which), now he says he was a former terrorist. On the surface that's the problem -- it's the typical (for Canada, at least) bureaucratic understanding of what's a "terrorist"...if you're honest, but repent your past associations -- then, bingo, you're risking your well-being (you could find yourself kicked out of the country -- can you imagine what would happen to this person if he were sent back to Hezbollah controlled Lebanon??!! now that would indeed be a death sentence.) But, if you're a REAL terrorist and keep your mouth shut -- or run around the streets celebrating HEZBOLLAH in public -- Hezbollah, a designated TERRORIST organization-- then you're PERFECTLY ok. YA!!! Dat's Kana-duh!!
Here's my post from the www.cbcwatch.ca forum
where I opined about how the CBC is now printing falsehoods again but this time the lies are portraying Arar as completely innocent and how Canada is guilty and should settle his $400'000'000.00 dollar Law Suit that CAIR-Canada coached him to file so he didn't have to go after Jordan,Syria,Tunisia, and the USA.
CBC watch is a very good site for American to see how the average Canadian views the waste of almost $1 billion a year to make shows that people don't watch.
************************************************* Remember the outrage just last year after the O'Connor report , part of the blame went to the MSM for failing to confirm leaked information or just being wise about what to report that is closer to the facts in a story.
Well , now that Harper is in the drivers seat I see the MSM and the CBC now point to the Canadian Government ( code word for Harper's reign) as responsible for Arar's plight .
Not only is the CBC avoiding to link the Liberals to this problem but in todays posting on their Website the CBC has now printed a new set of lies about Arar because it favours their Political agenda and
help Dion and the NDP with their smear campaigns , just read the article about the USA keeping Arar on their no-Fly list and denying him entry to the USA .
There are so many falsehoods and twisted facts in the story that I'll just point out the glaring errors , Arar was denied entry to the USA at JFK because he sold his home and took the family to the Middle East and then tried to return by himself to enter the USA , his flight from Tunisia ended at JFK and when the US refused him entry it was Tunisia that feared taking him back on a return flight , Arar's very own statement to the Media in 2003 details how he was sent to JORDAN and not SYRIA as the media loves to report.
Arar himself said that Kidnappers in Jordan stopped him from meeting with his family there to book a direct flight to Canada , they
put him in a SUV and he later ended up in a Syrian jail .
Arar has only alleged to have been tortured for a brief period and then sat in a cell for 10 months , and O'Connor only reported that there was no evidence that Arar committed crimes in Canada or could be linked to any terror group.
The CBC now prints that Arar was deported to Syria where he was torture for 10 months , and some of the MSM outlets only claim that Arar was in the USA and tried to come home but was deported to Syria.
If the media was to learn anything about falsely accusing Arar of terror links, they should have learned that it's just as wrong to report false links to him being completely innocent and the USA being the villian in all of this.
I took the time to watch the inquiry and read hundreds of pages from the Inquiry website with all the transcripts , CAIR-Canada had coached Arar to not assist in preventing Terrorist attacks on Canada by terror cells within Canada as CAIR still does and these posts are still on the CAF website as well , so I think the media should stop using the hysteria and propaganda by the Whahabbi based Islamists like CAIR that are known to support Hamas and get Saudi funding
to spread Sharia-law as CAIR's Sheema Khan tried to do in Ontario.
This is our tax dollars in action and that's what makes this frustrating because the NDP tried to get Arar's wife to be a MP for Ottawa area Muslims and this was while CAIR's lawyers were coaching Arar to sue Canada for $400'000'000.00 dollars for what Jordan and Syria did to him.
Olivia Chow ran on the ticket that she would get $25'000'000.00 dollars for her Chinese population as part of a financial redress
for the China-imposed Head-tax that was used to keep cheap labour
from fleeing China , so just imagine Arar's wife sitting in Parliament as a MP and voting on the Budget to give her husband and CAIR $400 Million in redress for what Syria did to her husband.
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BTW, the CAF is the Canadian Arab Federation and just last summer the President was on a radio Show and defended Hezbollah and claimed that 90% of the Lebanese and Arabs in Canada support Hezbollah .
The MSM stayed away from that hot topic and our MP's in Parliament that joined in a Muslim rally in Montreal where Hezbollah Flags were flying were never held to account and even the private video of Jews being attacked on the Peace-March was brushed off as having nothing to do with the Peaceful marchers .
Arar has never given a statement in a Courtroom
to be cross examined to prove his claims, so until we have PROOF of any torture he should get even one penny of OUR tax dollars for what CAIR caused by coaching him to avoid helping expose Terror attacks on Canada.
An update is needed Re: Arar. what are you thinking, eh? A mere 400 million?!! Why, o the outrage! Remember, his hands were whipped, I tell you, whipped!! Surely he deserves o so much more than a mere 400 million!
Yeah, try google News with search terms "arar US lawsuit" -- yeah, he's suing the United States -- Condi Rice, etc. for -- are you sitting down? -- Ya! 900 Million. Ok...and crime and being a wanna-be terrorist doesn't pay...tell me another one.
Oh, there's another news item which says one lawsuit in the U.S. has been dismissed /thrown out of court (but I don't know if other suits have been filed?) I don't know what Arar's up to right now...planning new strategic financial attacks against an unsuspecting American public? I've no idea. (it's "jihad" against the Infidels-- the "legal" way).
Anyway, along with the Google News search one can read titles to articles such as "A hero for our time." As I gag. (Also, did anyone catch Andrew Coyne's claim that Arar was Canada's Dreyfus?? Oh yuk...I wanted to write a letter to the National Post, but never got around to it.)
Arar was awarded today 10 million dollars in Canadian taxpayers money.
I figure the Canadian government should insist that the money come from Syria (the state that did the alleged "torturing"), and let Arar go after the Syrians to get the money.