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mises
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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:22 am Post subject: CIC uses race-card against Harper |
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T'was only a matter of time...
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Harper indifferent to 'brown-skinned' Khadr: Islamic group
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is indifferent to Omar Khadr's plight because the Guantanamo Bay prisoner is ``brown-skinned" and a Muslim, the leader of one of Canada's largest Islamic groups said Monday.
Harper's resistance to calls to repatriate the Canadian citizen shows he is pandering to Islamophobes, said Canadian Islamic Congress president Mohamed Elmasry.
"In this case, Mr. Harper is playing politics because of the backdrop of Islamophobia in this country," Elmasry said.
"This is where a leader comes in, to say this is really wrong and I have to correct that wrong by bringing this person (back to Canada) even if I lose some political points with Islamophobes."
Khadr's lawyers and others want Ottawa to repatriate Khadr, who was 15 when he was accused of killing a U.S. army medic in Afghanistan in 2002, from Guantanamo Bay.
In an opinion piece released to the media, Elmasry said Harper has shown a "shocking indifference" to those calls.
Elmasry contrasts Khadr's case with that of dual Canadian-British citizen William Sampson, who was freed from a death sentence in Saudi Arabia in 2003.
Prior to his release, Ottawa had said it had made pleas on Sampson's behalf to the highest levels of Saudi government.
"Why is Stephen Harper so callously indifferent to Omar Khadr's case?" Elmasry wrote.
"It's painfully obvious: William Sampson is a white Westerner while his fellow Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, is brown-skinned and a Muslim."
Khadr, now 21, faces trial before a U.S. military tribunal in October. He's accused of killing an American soldier. |
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/406503
Any Canadian who even remotely follows news, or passively listens to the CBC once a year, would know that Harper wasn't PM when Sampson was being tortured in Saudi. You would hope that Canada's Largest Islamic Group would figure that out, or the thug Mo' Elmasery would hire an intern to fact-check his ramblings. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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Tarek Fateh, who runs a smaller group of liberal Muslims, has written a response to Elmasry's comments.
http://tinyurl.com/64uw7r |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I was just about to post Fatah's response.
Related to this, Fatah is a good man. It is truly unfortunate that his group is so thoroughly marginalized both by the Canadian multicult establishment and muslim "leaders". It would be nice if he was the go-to guy for muslim issues in Canada and not the thug Elmasery. I don't agree with much of Fatah's politics or his ideas about the source of muslim problems, but his is a religious orientation that is entirely compatible with Western democracy. It is also more in line with the majority of Canadian muslims, in my experience. |
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