Crooked in Canada

CBC News sent Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr six questions for him to answer.

Q: What do you want out of life?

I just want to be as normal as any normal unknown Canadian

Q: When you think of Canada, what comes to your mind?

My most joyful memories of my life were in Canada … like school and going to the zoo and seeing the auto show which, until my last day, I had car posters and magazines

Q: What do you say to Canadians who may have fear of you?

First thing I tell them is not to fear me. I’m a peaceful person and to give me a chance in life and don’t believe what you’ve heard and believe what you see with your eyes.

Q: What are your fondest moments of your life in Canada?

In a normal person there is a connection between him and the place where he was born even if he didn’t always live in the country, but he will always want to return to it, and feels his soul connected to it, and that’s how I feel.

Q: What are you looking forward to the most?

I always feel I’m in this world to help people and the best way to do that is to be a doctor to help anybody anywhere and anytime, and that’s my future dream.

Q: What steps would you take to distance yourself from your past?

First I never had a choice in my past life, but I will build my future with the right bricks, and that Islam is a peaceful, multicultural and anti-racism religion for all.

Omar Khadr is playing CBC and the rest of Canada. A normal life for him is living jihad, and all that he was brought up to be by his parents is about as normal as it gets for Khadr. The only normal life that he knows is the life he was raised to live. He shouldn’t expect us to believe that after 6 years in Guantanamo Bay he is a changed person. By the time Khadr was 15-years-old he already started forming his own values and beliefs, as most teenagers do, and not once did he turn his back on jihad. He is only turning his back on jihad now because it’s on of the criteria he will have to meet if he doesn’t want to have to spend more time in jail than he already has. He is only telling people what he knows they want to hear to save his own. If Omar was sincere, he could have, and should have expressed his sentiments a lot sooner than now. He didn’t have to wait for the CBC to ask him his thoughts, and he certainly had ample opportunities to express his thoughts via his defence team. Not once have I read anywhere that he has expressed remorse for his actions. Maybe I missed it, but if he had, we would have heard a lot more about an expression of remorse repeatedly.

When he says we shouldn’t fear him, that he’s a peaceful person and that he deserves a chance, and that we shouldn’t believe what we’ve heard, and that we should believe with our eyes, why isn’t he more specific? We see with our eyes the events that occur in Afghanistan on television everyday, where people like him are actively participating in the killing of coalition troops and anybody who else who stands in the way of the beliefs that thousands just like him hold. He is a mujahadeen, was a mujahadeen when he was arrested, and he will always be.

Why shouldn’t we believe what we hear, he was raised by his mother and father, and we all know how they feel about the west, and though his mother has been forced to kiss a little western ass to get medical care for one of her children and entrance back into Canada after he and his family fled the country to join the mujahadeen, she still holds the same sentiments and she definitely has expressed any remorse for the actions of her husband, herself, the son sitting in Guantanamo Bay, and another son living in Canada the US would like to see extradited to the US. Omar Khadr can claim that everything that has been said about him is all lies, but at the end of the day he was taught to say express such sentiments if captured by the enemy. I don’t doubt for one minute that Omar didn’t do the things that the US is claiming he did, and I challenge him to explain how he ended up in the middle of a firefight with US troops. He was a 15-year-old kid who could have said no and had the opportunity to run away at sometime or another, but he chose not to so that he could honour his father.

To date I haven’t heard any proof that his father forced him into that battle by holding a gun to his son’s head either, and I’m going to assume that when Omar says we shouldn’t believe what we hear, we shouldn’t believe he was forced into taking up arms in the jihad against the west. He wasn’t forced into anything and for him or anybody else to suggest such a thing is nonsense. He wanted to make his father proud, and he took up arms against coalition troops, to please his father and become a martyr.

When he is asked about the fondest moments of his life in Canada, he says there is a connection between him and the country he was born in, that he always wants to return to it. Why wouldn’t he, Canada was very good to him and his family, and there weren’t bombs going off around him and people be shot dead in the streets. Of course he has fond memories of Canada, but that doesn’t make him a peaceful person. How much does anybody want to bet that if he wasn’t captured in Afghanistan, he would still be fighting coalition troops, and likely killing Canadians troops?

He tells us he’s a peaceful person, give me a f**king break. The only reason he is peaceful now is because he is sitting in prison.

I could go on and on about this murderous little prick and his family, and why they are who they are, and why Omar will never change, but that doesn’t matter since I cannot influence his fate. If I could though, I’d make damn sure that he never set foot in Canada again, that he was returned to Afghanistan, and I would send his family with him.

Omar Khadr is a mujahadeen, he fought coalition troops and there is the very distinct possibility that he battled Canadian troops while fighting alongside the Taliban, yet that doesn’t seem to matter to anybody.

The Canadian government would be wise to err on the side of caution and ensure that Omar Khadr never sets foot in this country again, and that his family is removed from Canadian soil. My god people, if the Khadrs are given an opportunity to achieve martyrdom in Canada, and they seize that opportunity, there is no telling how many innocent people they kill.

As quickly as Omar can say he is a peaceful man, he can just as quickly change his mind if the right opportunity at the right price came along.

To me, Omar Khadr and his family are a threat to Canadians and national security, and I don’t care how convincing a story Omar is telling, the threat is never removed.

In the end it doesn’t matter what I think, but I don’t doubt for one minute that everything Omar told the CBC wasn’t sincere, that he was putting on act, one that his lawyer condoned to convince Canadians to help him win his freedom. Omar Khadr had his chance to make peace with Canadians a long time ago and on many occasions. Anything he has to say now is purely for cosmetic reasons.

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