Next time Canada tried giving Khadr family another chance was in 1990s, when Khadr had been sent to a foreign prison for the blowing up an Egyptian embassy. The Liberal government got Khadr out of jail, brought him to Canada, gave him disability pension... Sure, Khadr was forever grateful, repented his sins and became a loyal, law-abiding Canadian... Or didn't he?
He reportedly applied for and received a Canadian disability pension and later returned to the Middle East along with his family and was killed in a gun battle in 2003.And I bet he kept receiving his disability pension even though he was able-bodied enough to go to another country and fight alongside the Taliban.
Fool me once - shame on you; fool me twice - shame on who? Don't you think being fooled for the third time would be a little too much for Canada?
Ahmed's wife, Maha, is a terrorist sympathizer and together they spawned five children.Couldn't be any more Canadian than that. Could they?
The youngest was wounded in the same battle that killed his father. Mom yarded him back to Canada so he could avail himself to the best of Canadian-style medical treatment.
Two other sons and a daughter all have apparently strong links to terrorist bodies.
The daughter shoots her mouth off on open-line shows and newscasts at every opportunity. Her terrorist sympathies appear obvious.
Omar, the second youngest, was captured as a teen terrorist.
How come nobody bothered to investigate the immigration papers of the Khadr couple? How come nobody noticed that they forgot to mention membership in some Islamic extremist organizations that would disqualify them from entering Canada in the first place?
They should have been stripped of their fraudulently obtained citizenship and sent raising their kids terrorist someplace else. Without benefiting from visa-free travel, free healthcare, generous disability benefits and masochistically compassionate government that gets them out of jail no matter what they do because, believe it or not, they are "Canadians".
Of course the argument goes that Omar is a Canadian, born in Toronto. And that's the rub. Canada allowed this despicable family into the country. Allowed them to take advantage of all this country has to offer. Was idle while they involved themselves in terrorist causes. Welcomed them home when they got into terrorist-related jams abroad.So what if Omar Khadr was born in Toronto? There were more than enough Canadian born children who had lost their citizenship because their parents took them to another country and accepted another citizenship on their behalf. Some of them had to spend decades to get their Canadian citizenship back (up until Stephen Harper's government passed the required amendment to the Citizenship act few months ago) - did anybody care? Did we see journalists and judges, MPs and Senators, all uniting in their effort to bring thousands of innocent law-abiding Canadians back home? I don't recall that...
Showered them with medical care and then, like stooges, watched while they made Canada a laughing stock in terrorist circles around the world.
This family has continually taken advantage of Canadian generosity, and apathy, while disregarding the norms and mores of their adopted home. They spit on its values. And one of the results was the making of this child soldier, nabbed in Afghanistan after allegedly killing and wounding those who fight with Canadians. He now sits in Guantanamo Bay.
So I don't see why we shouldn't pass an amendment to the Citizenship Act that would put some restrictions on dual citizenship and that would allow us to strip a terrorist sympathizer Maha Khadr and her surviving children (all - Taliban combatants) of their Canadian citizenship. If they hate Canada that much - it would be best for them (and for all of us) if they find themselves another place to live.
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