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Canada: Muslim gets ten years prison dawah for trying to join jihad terror group

Jul 24, 2014 12:06 pm By Robert Spencer

mohamed_hersiHersi claimed that he had been entrapped. Could you be entrapped into joining a jihad terror group? Is there anything, love or money or anything else, that could entice you to travel to Somalia to wage jihad? One would have to be disposed toward that sort of thing in the first place to be susceptible to being entrapped in this way, no?

“Mohamed Hersi jailed 10 years on terror charges,” by Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, July 24, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):

Mohamed Hersi, the first Canadian convicted of attempting to fight with a terrorist group abroad, was given the maximum sentence of 10 years Thursday morning in a Brampton courtroom.

Superior Court Justice Deena Baltman told the court in sentencing Hersi that “he betrayed both his family and his country.”

Hersi sat in the prisoner’s dock often shaking his head or holding it in his hands as Baltman read out the facts of the case and her reasons for the stringent sentence.

Canada’s spy service and the RCMP had closely watched Hersi’s prosecution as they deal with the threat of Canadians who have been drawn to conflict zones abroad – and tracking them as they return home.

Somalia, where prosecutors said Hersi was headed, had been popular a destination for a small group of Canadians, some of whom quickly rose among the ranks of the East African terrorist group, Al Shabab.

One high-profile case involved Mahad Dhore, a Somalia-born York University student who left his home in 2009 and didn’t publicly surface again until last year, when he led a group of suicide bombers on an attack at a Mogadishu courthouse, killing more than 30.

More recently, the fear has been the involvement of Canadians fighting in Syria, where a new generation of Al Qaeda militants have overpowered the Western-backed groups that have struggled since 2011 to topple the Bashir Assad regime.

New Canadian legislation was introduced last year that criminalized travel for the purpose of terrorism – broadening the law under which Hersi was charged.

Civil rights groups argued at the time it gave the police too much power. Security services, however, welcomed the addition to the Criminal Code, saying they had lacked the legal tools needed to deal with a growing problem….

Hersi was arrested without having left Canada, and argued during the trial that he was not destined for Somalia and had been set up — “entrapped” — by the undercover police officer who befriended him in the case and provided the bulk of the crown’s evidence.The case began in September 2010 with the discovery of a USB stick at a dry cleaner in a bag of clothing. An employee became concerned about the contents on the memory drive – including a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook – and contacted police.

An investigation was launched and six months later Hersi was arrested at Toronto’s Pearson airport with a ticket to Cairo. He maintains he was going to Egypt to study Arabic but prosecutors say it was a stopover on his journey to Somalia.

Paul Slansky, Hersi’s lawyer has said he will appeal the May 30 conviction of the two offences – attempting to participate in terrorist activity and counselling another (the undercover officer, who cannot be identified) to do the same.

But Crown attorneys Iona Jaffe and James Clark had urged Baltman to give Hersi the maximum 10-year prison term, not only punishing him for his conviction, but also to use the sentence as a message to others.

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  1. john spielman says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    after he has served his sentence, then strip of citizenship and DEPORT HIM!

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 3:14 pm

      Yes, but think how much money would be saved by deporting him *before* he’s served his sentence !

      Then the Canadian taxpayer wouldn’t have to pay for his’halal’ meals, his prayer rug, his koran, or visits from the imam.

    • Eli says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 5:04 pm

      Canada is already trying changing the law to do just that. Liberals, NDP and Greens are throwing a hissy fit over it.

    • Eric Kahn says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 5:20 pm

      Imprison him? Deport him? Why waste the money…. Kill him. The 46 cent solution… 45ACP to the back of the head.

    • Eric Kahn says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 5:21 pm

      Imprison him? Deport him? Why waste the money?… Kill him. The 46 cent solution… 45ACP to the back of the head.

  2. Dan says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    It’s a start.

    But far as I’m concerned, not long enough.

  3. Miguel says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    And when the Somali and Kenyan police catch the jihadi terrorists, they always find their pockets British passports, Canadian passports. This is telling us actually Britain and Canada are supporting those jihadists waging war in Somalia and Syria, those ones who are killing innocent people are actually ex refugees from the west.

  4. mark says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    You mean there is a wee bit of good news coming from the Canadian justice system? Don’t rejoice. He’ll probably be out in a year.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 5:17 am

    From the article – “Canadians who have been drawn to conflict zones abroad”.

    They’re not Canadians. Even if they are infidel-background born-in-Canada who have joined the Mohammedan Mob, the Allah Gang.

    They are “Canada-passport-holding Muslims who have gone off to wage jihad abroad”.

  6. Rick Fanning says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Al Shabab should be changed to “Al Shish Kabob”. Entrapment? They are always being picked on, aren’t they? Treason should be punishable by death.

  7. Chrissy says

    Jul 26, 2014 at 1:02 am

    It’s never THEIR fault…. It’s not his fault that he decided to travel Somalia via Cairo.. it’s not his fault that someone twisted his words… it’s not his fault that the undercover cop got the evidence against him… it’s not his fault the drycleaner saw what was on the USB stick… it’s not his fault he’s a f&*$ing idiot. If they can blame someone else they will, every time. They are misunderstood, they are victimised, they are treated unfairly. Just ask them.
    Well done, Canada, in locking this traitor away. Australia has just brought in new laws for the same reason…. we are just waiting to see if the government will follow through on them. We have locked people up for planning acts of terror on our soil…. the government needs to lock up the ones that are planning to go overseas to fight and the ones planning to go.

  8. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 26, 2014 at 8:05 am

    From the article – “The case began in September 2010 with the discovery of a USB stick at a dry cleaner in a bag of clothing. An employee became concerned about the contents on the memory drive – including a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook – and contacted police.”

    That’s the bit that *I* like about this report.

    That anonymous employee at the drycleaner’s – presumably they weren’t sure who the USB belonged to, and had a look to try to find out the owner’s identity? or was it that they had gotten a baaad vibe off the customer or customers already and decided, on finding the usb, to just take a peek? – deserves a medal for vigilance and commonsense. And thank god the police took him or her seriously, too.

    That’s the front line in this war. People like that.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 26, 2014 at 8:23 am

      And so, I think I will re-post a classic.

      “I am John Doe”. Originally written by one Michelle Malkin, but reproduced here.

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/03/i-am-john-doe

      Addressing all who have come on board since April 2007, and may not have had time to explore the archives; this is a great piece, please do click on the link and read.

      A lot of the comments are excellent, too. I think this one – by “aunt bea” – is one of the best, and I will reproduce it, because I think many of our European friends, lurking or posting, perhaps need to read it. It may encourage them.

      auntbea
      March 28, 2007 at 3:30 pm

      “What happens in Iraq – stays in Iraq.

      “You will never kill as many of us as you need to.


      “Because you really don’t know how many of us Westerners are against you or for you.


      “Some may appear to be appeasers to begin with, but when you start fooling around with whatever they find really personally holy (as in important to them) and you will try, you will find to your surpise that you don’t have as many allies as you thought.

      “That important thing may be a freedom, family, the almighty dollar or the bottom line, it may be living without fear, it may be just remaining alive.

      “Whatever it is, one day you will cross the line for each individual in the West because you are Islam and known or as yet unknown you are a threat to our way of life. Not in the way you hope to be.


      “**You will one day try to take away that one thing that each of us values most and you will find yourselves up against a very scary entity.

      “A person who can think not just follow and there are more of us than you would ever dream.** {my emphasis – dda}

      “A lot of us are just lazy and appear to go along with the easy way.


      “When that line gets crossed the fight will be right here at each and every door.

      “We are John Doe
, Jane Doe, 
John Doe Jr.,
Janey Doe, and 
Josie dog Doe”.
      END.

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