Crooked in Canada

Off with his effin head already, that’s what I have to say about Mohamed Kohail, the man whose parents stayed in Canada long enough for him and his brother to get Canadian citizenship, only to flee Canada once they got that citizenship.

I don’t care what anybody says, but the Kohail’s family sole purpose of coming to Canada was for the convenience of obtaining Canadian citizenship, and not to make a life for themselves as they have claimed in the past.

In my opinion, Mohamed’s parent didn’t have good intentions when they arrived in Canada, and now in a karma kind of way, they are paying for it.

I really don’t care if the Saudis lop off Mohamed’s head, nor do I care what he has to say about the Canadian government not doing enough for him. As far as I’m concerned, he is the maker of his own fate.

He got himself into the jam that he is in, and Canadian taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook to help him escape the executioner’s sword, whether he is a citizen of convenience or not.

He broke Saudi law when he committed what some would call a schoolyard murder, and he should be punished under Saudi law.

He knew the laws going into Saudi Arabia, and despite the laws, he broke one anyway, and a serious one at that I might add. He deserves whatever Saudi justice metes out.

Which brings me to my next point; self-defense my effin ass, it was him who took the fight to mob that was demanding his brother apologize for insulting the victim’s female cousin, and the proof of that lies in the fact his brother summoned him to rise to his defense, when it became apparent the victim wasn’t going to give him a pass, and when he refused to make said apology.

The fight wasn’t a spur of the moment thing with Mohamed. He knew exactly what he was getting into and he was prepared to kill. If he wasn’t, he would have told his brother to apologize and forget about it, but he didn’t.

I also believe that there might be a history between the dead man, Mohamed and his brother Sultan; that this wasn’t a one-off fight.  If there was a history of violence between them, the story will eventually come out, but I doubt it will be told by the Kohails.

There is definitely more to this murder than the Kohails are telling, and the Saudi justice system being as secretive as it is, they certainly aren’t going to divulge all the facts.  Why should they, they don’t have to answer to Canada, nor should they.

Under Saudi law, Mohamed Kohail deserves to die, and whether or not he was tortured into confessing to the murder has no bearing on his sentence, given that by his own admission, he did kill Munzer Al-Hiraki.

He didn’t have to be tortured into a confession. How many eyewitnesses were there again? I heard that there was more than a half-dozen people that saw the Kohail brothers and their Jordanian friend lay a beating on Al-Hiraki.

Why would anybody have to torture Mohamed to get a confession out of him when there were that many eyewitnesses ready to testify against him?

The torture claim is nothing more than an attempt to goad the Canadian government into imposing itself into Saudi law. Mohamed knows it, his lawyer knows it, and so does his parents.

The Saudi authorities know it too.

That’s why they haven’t really dignified Mohamed’s claim with a response. Mohamed is lying to save his own hide. He wasn’t tortured.  The Canadian government isn’t buying into it either, that’s why they aren’t doing anymore than they have to.

I can’t wait to see how mommy and daddy Kohail react when their other son is sentenced to death in his retrial. You can bet the shit will really hit the fan in Canada then.

There is little doubt in my mind that both Mohamed and Sultan deserve whatever consequences are handed to them, and for them to assume that just because they are naturalized Canadian citizens the Canadian government owes them something, is just plain arrogant.

Like I said, they are the makers of their own fate.

As far as I’m concerned, the only thing the Canadian government owes them is their right to good legal representation and fairness in the Saudi justice system. Prove to me that the Kohails haven’t been treated fairly in Saudi Arabia, and maybe I might side with them, but for Mohamed  to play the  torture card…Pahleez.

Look at this way, how many times have we heard a Middle Easterner with Canadian citizenship bellow they were tortured whenever they get themselves into trouble abroad. That’s the ‘in thing‘ for Middle Easterners isn’t it, to say they were tortured?

I don’t know about you, but the torture thing doesn’t wash with me.

The sooner Mohamed is executed, the faster this story will disappear. As for his brother Sultan goes, if he is sentenced to death in his expected re-trial, then so be it. Off with his head too.

One other thing, once somebody is granted a Canadian citizenship, he or she should be required under law to spend at least 5 years in Canada before being allowed to pull up stakes and move to another country.

I don’t know how long the Kohail boys had their Canadian citizenship papers for, before their parents took them out of the country to live in Saudi Arabia, but I doubt it was for anything longer than a couple of years. I could be wrong about that though because nobody seems to mention  in the media how long they remained in Canada after receiving their citizenship. It would be interesting to know though.

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