The father of Jack Letts, who has been dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by the British media, is advocating for his son to come home to Canada (he held British and Canadian citizenship, but has been stripped of his British citizenship). Playing Canadians for fools, he stated that “Canada could prove itself an enlightened world leader” if Jihadi Jack is brought back to Canada. Never mind the unspeakable acts that Jihadi Jack has committed and the threat he poses to Canadians.
John Letts said he wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau two weeks ago to argue that Canada should accept his son, a former joint citizen who is now solely Canadian because of the U.K.’s recent action.
John Letts wrote to the right person. Trudeau has already rolled out the welcome mat to Islamic State jihadis, and he believes that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” even if the person is an enemy combatant at war with Canada and its citizens.
“Jihadi Jack converted to Islam as a 16-year-old. His parents had supported his decision,” and they subsequently ended up “convicted of funding terrorism by sending cash to their son in Syria.”
As it remains unknown whether or not Canada will accept Jihadi Jack, the threat that he and other jihadists pose to Western citizens is extreme. Last year, an Iraqi judge said that he was sentencing jihadis from the UK to death in order to protect Britain.
Abdul Sattar Beraqdar, spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, said British members of ISIS deserve to die and “The punishment, as much as it seems strong, will affect the security of your country….I am sure there are hundreds of people in Britain at this moment thinking of committing similar crimes.”
In 2017, UK government minister Rory Stewart stated similarly that the “only way of dealing” with Islamic State jihadis “will be, in almost every case, to kill them” for the protection of Western citizens. Stewart warned:
These are people who have essentially moved away from any kind of allegiance towards the British Government…..They are absolutely dedicated, as members of the Islamic State, towards the creation of a caliphate, they believe in an extremely hateful doctrine which involves killing themselves, killing others and trying to use violence and brutality to create an eighth century, or seventh century, state.
One fact is crystal clear, given the comments of Stewart and Judge Beraqdar: Western populations need to be protected from the severe threat of Islamic State jihadists; so do inmates in prisons, for that matter, since jihadists are radicalizing inmates of Western jails. Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, meanwhile, is looking after the interests of Jihadi Jack. Goodale said that Canada is disappointed that the UK has revoked the citizenship of Jihadi Jack, and “has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities.”
Aside from being absurd, the real disappointment is in Goodale as the so-called Public Safety Minister. He has, in effect, shirked his responsibility to keep Canadians safe. In Goodale’s view, the rights of Canadians are secondary to the rights of jihadists.
“Canada could ‘lead the world’ by bringing Jihadi Jack here to face justice, father says,” by Tom Blackwell, National Post, August 19, 2019:
Canada could prove itself an enlightened world leader if it brought Jack Letts here from Syria after British authorities stripped the alleged ISIL member of his citizenship, his father told the National Post Monday.
Ontario–born John Letts said he wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau two weeks ago to argue that Canada should accept his son, a former joint citizen who is now solely Canadian because of the U.K.’s recent action.
Letts — dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by British media — could be prosecuted and jailed in Canada if there’s evidence of wrongdoing, and would make for a powerful voice against radicalization, said the father.
“We can lead the world and show that there is a way through this mess,” said John Letts in an interview from his home in Oxford. “By taking our people back, we can be an example of how to deal with this … We can’t just leave a festering wound over in the Middle East. It’s going to come back and bite us again.”
And he stressed the family would never sue the Canadian government, rejecting comparisons to the case of Omar Khadr, who was awarded $10 million by Ottawa after he sued over torture while an al-Qaeda detainee.
Meanwhile, in a British TV interview from prison aired Monday, Jack Letts said he feels like he is Canadian and hopes the country will take him in, but is not optimistic. “I don’t think anyone is going to help me,” he told ITV.
Liberal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale chastised Britain on Sunday for trying to “off-load” its responsibilities by taking away Letts’ citizenship, while the opposition Conservatives have said there’s no way he should ever be allowed into Canada….
CRUSADER says
History shows example.
Christian historians believe that moral schism and its ensuing unrest in the weakened Christian community facilitated the seventh-century Muslim conquest of the region of North Africa.
Weakened moral compasses and relativistic mindsets are what continue to beset the West, leaving further vulnerability to infiltration by Islam into the vacuum the Liberals affirm.
Only resolve can reverse this trend, and that only happens when people realize the battle is not physical but spiritual and against ideological forces.
James Lincoln says
CRUSADER,
That is a correct analysis.
In the 1950s, Western Europe still had relatively strong Judeo-Christian values, and the concept of political correctness did not exist.
Islam would not have stood a chance then… But now it is filling the void created by moral decay/political correctness/leftist-Marxism/globalism, etc….
Christopher Watson says
In the 1930s, up until December 1941 a large section of the American public were against America joining in the ‘European’ war. Lindbergh had a political movement against any involvement in the European war and was pro-Germany. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the minds of the American public and voters almost immediately. Lindbergh was to have held a meeting that night – December 7. When an occurrence like the Pearl Harbor attack happens the public will immediately rediscover their love of country.
CRUSADER says
Forces of dissent have permeated American pluralistic society at multiple levels during this Flat World era, however…
USA 2020 ain’t the USA of 1940…
gravenimage says
That was certainly one factor, CRUSADER. We have to stand together.
JM says
Reply to CRUSADER and to James Lincoln.
I agree. This is shown clearly in the Epistle to the Ephesians, 6:12:
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Today, as in St. Paul’s day, the struggle against evil is a cosmic as well as a physical battle in “this dark world.”
CRUSADER says
Iceland also is clueless…
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Iceland’s leader won’t be around to welcome Pence
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland’s leader has announced that she will skip U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to her Nordic nation, opting instead to keep “prior commitments” by attending a trade union conference and meetings in Sweden.
Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said that she’s planned for months to give the keynote speech for the Council of Nordic Trade Unions’ annual meeting in Malmo, Sweden, on Sept. 3 — the day before Pence’s arrival. She will only return the afternoon of Sept. 4 after private meetings with Nordic union leaders, her office said.
“This visit, that was organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has been bouncing a lot around the calendar so that it has been very difficult to organize oneself around it,” she told Icelandic broadcaster RUV on Tuesday. Her office Wednesday confirmed that she had not changed her mind.
She also underscored that the arrangement was “absolutely not” about snubbing the Trump administration and that she had earlier this year met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The decision was made before President Donald Trump announced that he would cancel a visit to another Nordic nation, Denmark.
Pence is expected to discuss Iceland’s strategic importance in the Arctic and NATO’s efforts to counter Russia in the region. In July, the United States announced it would invest $57 million on military infrastructure near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik.
“This is unprecedented for an Icelandic prime minister,” historian Thor Whitehead told The Associated Press. “I doubt any other Western leader would decide to address a friendly conference abroad instead of welcoming a major foreign ally.”
The office of prime minister holds the highest authority in Iceland, where the presidency is a symbolic position without much formal power.
Since taking office, Jakobsdottir has spearheaded progressive policies on abortion rights, LGBT rights and climate change. Activists including members of her own Left Green Party have protested Pence’s visit, calling it “disrespectful” to minorities.
Pence’s visit is organized by Iceland’s foreign ministry, led by Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson from Iceland’s conservative Independence Party. The party is Iceland’s largest and entered into a rare coalition with Jakobsdottir’s party after failing to secure a majority in elections in 2017.
Pence will be the first U.S. vice president to visit Iceland, a country of just 350,000 people, since George H.W. Bush visited Reykjavik in 1983.
James Lincoln says
CRUSADER,
You’re right about Iceland-they are clueless regarding Islam.
The only reason that they have not been infiltrated by Muslim migrants is because of their geography-it’s a little hard to get to.
CRUSADER says
However, a little bit of dawah will do ya !
gravenimage says
Sadly, Iceland is indeed utterly clueless about the threat of Islam.
Angemon says
Is there any thing Trudeau won’t do if one appeals to his narcissism?
Michael Garant says
Nope…….especially if it suits is islamist friends.
CogitoErgoSum says
Another case where I would look to Quran 5:33 for how to handle this Jihadi Jack. By becoming the enemy of his homeland he should at the very least be exiled from that land and if the people of other lands decide that he is spreading mischief among them also, they should be allowed to execute him or amputate his arms and legs from opposite sides if they so decide. The measure by which he is judged should be equal to the measure by which he has judged others. That would only be fair.
Terry Gain says
Excellent. Those who have chosen Sharia should not receive Christian mercy.
E T says
We Canadians do NOT want the murdering SOB. What about all the people who this SOB cut off their heads, is there any sympathy for them and their families? WE DO NOT WANT HIM and we sure as hell do NOT want Ralph Goodall. October can not come quick enough. Throw every stupid, bastard, Liberal out of office.
CRUSADER says
ACT! For Canada is a forum for citizens concerned about the triumphalist brand of Islam that seeks to erode our cherished western principles of free speech and equality with the goal of eventual Islamic supremacy in the West.
We are fighting to protect our Country by speaking out in defense of our democratic values, our security and our liberty against the rise of Islamism. And we’re fighting for the protection of Canada’s national security.
ACT volunteers from across the country are mobilizing to make a difference in their communities and for their nation.
DON’T JUST LOVE CANADA – ACT! FOR CANADA!
https://www.actforcanada.ca/
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, E T!
StreetKillaz2019 says
mark my words, if Canada lets that terrorist come back to Canada, the homeland will seal Canada’s fate.
Tom says
Mr Canadian in name only, don’t try to coerce real Canadians into taking your irresponsible, terrorist son.
YOU are the one that failed as a parent. We will not be responsible for your failure.
Canada can show enlightenment by unequivocally refusing to take your terrorist son, and any other paper Canadians who made the wrong life choice.
He, and you, must learn that there are consequences for actions.
Ewanda says
When I heard on Roy Green’s interview with Jihadi Jack’s father, that Jihadi Jack is still a devout Muslim and Jack says he believes that ISIS doesn’t represent true Islam, we know that Jihadi Jack is a liar and saying what his father wants to hear. It would be a great endangerment to us citizens to install the Islamist into our society …. sort of letting the wolf bed down with the sheeples ….only a matter of time before he sheds his hide. Time to bring back NIMBYism …… NOT IN MY BACKYARD TRUDEAU!!!
gravenimage says
Canada: Jihadi Jack’s dad says Canada could “be enlightened world leader” by bringing son “home”
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What dear ol’ dad really means is that Canada could show that it is suicidal and cares nothing for her people.
Kepha says
Jack Letts impresses me as an utterly reprehensible person. I do not know what his history is, and how he came to convert ot both Islam and its theologially-sanctioned terrorist movement, and he deserves at very least complete ostracism in a civilized society.
However, speaking as one who is humble and grateful to be an American (I am a Christian, and hence have a God to whom I am grateful), I wince at the iea of pulling citizenship from anyone save under the following circumstnces:
1. The person takes a policy-level position in a foreign government.
2. The person becomes the head of state of a foreign country (this happened to the late King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej).
3. The person is a naturalized citizen who engages in extremely despicable criminal behavior.
I suppose this list reflects that I used to be a consular officer for my country, and hence I am remembering bits and pieces of our nationality law.
And, knowing something about how a number of other countries work, I can even understand why some people end up as dual nationals. For example, US and Canadian lives, businesses, and families are so intertwined, with both countries having both jus solis and jus sanguinis citizenship, the number of US-Canadian dual nationals is probably fairly high, and may include many who scarcely give a thought to their citizenship claim in the country in which they spend less of their time (I strongly suspect that Sen. Ted Cruz scarcely gave a thought to his Canadian citizenship prior to its becoming an election issue).
But stripping citizenship from people who are born citizens strikes me as the sort of thing in which a tyranny or dictatorship might engage. I think of how Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was treated by the Soviet Union; or how Jews were treated in the Third Reich. I think the USA does it right when it takes one of our native-born lowlifes who hides overseas, issues him a passport for return only, and has the FBI waiting as the plane lands (or, if the host country allows, a couple of FBI agents escort him home in handcuffs). Indeed, the inalienability of natural citizenship seems to be a staple of Anglo-Saxon law (and Uncle Kepha is an “Anglo-Saxon” chiefly by osmosis), an this is something I see as very valuable, for it tells us that membership in the political community can exist apart from the decree or whim of whoever holds power.
Were Jack Letts an American, I would certainly be enraged about him; as, I see, our Canadian neighbors here seem to be. Indeed, I’m glad that at least this one Jihadi Johnny is not one of ours (commiseration with the Canadians; not Schadenfreude). But I would keep in mind our understanding of citizenship, and even if I’d like to see such a fellow countryman hanged, I’d recognize his right to return to this country and face American justice.
Finally, for the record, Uncle Kepha thinks that the government should prosecute our Jihadi Johnnies and Jihadi Janes who come whimpering home; at least if they have committed crimes abroad. If Canada takes Jack Letts back, I hope he faces justice there–even if I’m saddened at what the UK has done.
gravenimage says
Jihad would certainly be covered by #3, Kepha.
Kepha says
Of course. But my understanding is that Jack Letts has UK nationality and Canadian nationality by jus solis for one and jus sanguinis by the other.
gravenimage says
Yes.
mortimer says
Let Canada reinstate the death penalty for convicted terrorists and then welcome Jihadi Jack and introduce him to the hangman.
I am a former abolitionist, but conscienceless mass murderers like Jihadi Jack changed my mind. The jihadi motto is “WE LOVE DEATH”.
So prove it, jihadists, by putting the noose around your own neck.
mortimer says
Good point: Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale makes a joke of his job. He endangers the lives of Canadians by endorsing jihad. Jihadists are emboldened by Goodale, because they know they have nothing to fear from the likes of Goodale … he is the supreme example of a yes-man.
CRUSADER says
So….”deceptive ali” had this to say :
(— to which there are the following curt counters — )
“
“So, why did the Persian Empire fall? Their weak moral compass? Why did Mecca fall, their weak moral compass?
— why wouldn’t the exhausted Persians fall due to weakened resolve?
— why wouldn’t meccans falter to the raiding tribes hoodwinked to believe raiding was divinely sanctioned?
“Did they lose God’s favor because of their sinfulness and therefore God allowed them to be murdered and enslaved as punishment?
— sinfulness is a result of detachment from God and literally “ missing the mark “ by separation from one’s potential in life, which is a gift. God wouldn’t help the sinful, as we come to God on our knees, each of us, by our own repentance or by being broken and by harsh judgment. God can send the sinful more sin as that is what they desire, not what God desires of them.
“This would prove Muhammad and the Qur’an correct, that the Muslims are commanded to carry out God’s wrath by punishing the sinful…
— Nothing can prove Mohamhead is correct because little proves he existed as he is told of. The Queer’an is fabricated from various sourced materials the Arabs knew little of, yet they utilized to control people under the auspices of the warlord Caliphs. This wrath the Islamic Jihadists inflict is only justification for rude behavior and hatred for others from whom they want to steal. (Whereas the Ten Commandments mainly can be boiled down to this: Thou Shalt NOT Steal!)
“Only superstitious people believe ignorant things like that.
— Only a sinner who cannot confess and repent is so blinded by his own magnified ego, which will be cut in a short life. Good luck there “deceptive downtrodden one” !
“It wasn’t lack of morals, it was the fact that evil is neither incompetent or ignorant.
— All people become God-fearing in foxholes when being shelled! You are foolish to not account for lack of morals as a significant factor affecting those who are called on to fight and protect and defend. If you read the Bible, you will understand more fully that evil does account for much about this fallen world, and you are sorely ignorant of this ultimate perspective. I will pray for you! You need intercession to take place! And those you influence need spiritual protection!
— I put on the FULL Armor of God each day! I have at least become wise enough to acknowledge that necessity! How I wish the same for everybody else, as we are all susceptible to sinning further and to the wiles of the demonic, as there is an invisible warfare which afflicts the world, all around us! Saint Paul cautioned and pleaded with us to know and then do such, for all’s sake!
“Muhammad may have been illiterate, but he was nobody’s fool. He conquered Arabia in only ten years, and in only another ten years, his successors expanded the Caliphate to be larger than the Roman Empire had ever been. The Romans on the other hand, took hundreds of years to expand their empire.
— Mohamhead is a fake historic figure which Islam promotes as an excuse to behave horridly! There is no light from Islam — only deception and a River Of Blood! Everyone is a fool to follow such falsehood as Islam!
“We tried Christian theocracy already, it led to Inquisition and the Thirty Years war and it sucked for everyone. Not to mention, then Christianity was the state religion, people were a lot less moral than we are now… just one example being that slavery was considered good.
— Slavery was a long standing human historic institution which the Christian World stamped out! Inquisition was the demonic influence of man(kind) trying to control matters rather than allowing the Trinity to take the reins!!! It also is far overblown when contrasted to the horror and terror of Islam over 1400 years.
Thirty Years led to a Reformation. Islam still waits for its. Might as well just convert away from Islam’s deception!
“The simple fact is, that sometimes evil wins… Communist China is a perfect example of how evil wins.
— so, now you say that evil exists? ChiComs haven’t “won” yet!
— We live in eternal time frames, and we know not when we only guess at what we see through a glass darkly…
— The race is not to the strong or quick but time and chance happened to all…
— Scripture holds the key. Be patient in studying and applying it, from the Gospel!
“
CRUSADER says
Only the very wise and experienced can mine the pearls of such a passage:
“I returned and saw under the sun that—
The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all.”
— Ecclesiastes 9:11
(That’s right ! ! NINE ELEVEN)
CRUSADER says
Only those who have toiled with moral courage
can understand the depths of this poem:
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“ Ulysses “
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour’d of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!
As tho’ to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,—
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me—
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
‘T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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— ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Peter WF says
Wish them every success. Means there are fewer where I live.
gravenimage says
Even if you care nothing for Canadians, an Islamized Canada would make us *all* less safe.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Sure thing, Mr. Letts! Bringing your murderous criminal spawn home from Kurdish arrest in Syria is a great “opportunity” for Turdeau to show “Leadership!” by thus endangering the lives of us non-criminal citizens.
In a sane world, bullshit like this would never make it to the news, hypocrites like Letts wouldn’t get quoted, and the government would have quietly told him to go to Hell or risk being re-arrested for complicity again.
Peter Dale says
People, please. Some decorum. Mr T has already told us that diversity is what makes us Canadians strong. We need diversity and so why not admit the murderer? After all, murderers have rights, don’t they? And why protest? Mr T also told us that Canada is the first ‘post-nation’ country. We have, he said, no core values. And when the murderer is returned to the country of his citizenship, if he plays his cards right, he might even be able to get a government grant to write his memoirs. We’ve done this before. Let’s therefore celebrate the diversity and give one of our own a true, heartfelt Canadian welcome.
Ewanda says
It is a lie that “diversity makes us strong”. Diversity makes us weak and divided. What makes us strong is that we have continually taken the best from all the cultures that have arrived and incorporated it into our common identity and national image. It is only since papa Trudeau that we have become a salad …… and salads break up into little pieces.
Fred Parsons says
Hmmmmm seems to me that the enlightened this to do is keep the son of a bitch out
Pank says
I respect his desicion to go “home” to Islamic State! So leave him there. As his parents supported his decision….. I would say: go and join your son.
E T says
Anyone remember the song, ”Hit the road Jack and don’t cha come back no more, no more”.
E T says
Immigration should be about the most vulnerable refugees, namely religious minorities like CHRISTIANS, in the Middle East who Justine and Ralph seem to have forgotten. Oh my, October 21 is drawing nigh, Canadians get to say goodbye to the worst Prime Minister ever and all the traitorous Liberals. Make Canada GREAT AGAIN.
Sounder says
Just give him back his vest/belt and drop him off in Syria.
Nytfhs says
Let him rot, he a terrorist why should he be aloud here, no way should he be aloud in Canada asking for trouble. Give him 10 million like you did kadar Trudy
NYTFHS says
Touche