posted on April 30, 2004 02:53:37 PM new
Is raising an al-Qaeda family child abuse?
by Arthur Weinreb
Canadian citizens Maha Elsamnah and her son, Karim Khadr, returned to Canada from Pakistan a few weeks ago so that the 15-year-old Karim can take advantage of the free medical care that his citizenship entitles him to. He is currently a patient at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, one of the most renowned children’s facilities in the world.
Karim was paralyzed last fall when he was shot by the Pakistani army in the same battle that took the life of his Canadian citizen father and terrorist, Ahmed Khadir. Karim’s brother Omar is currently lounging in Canada’s favourite tourist destination, Cuba, as a guest of the U.S. military after it was alleged that he killed an American medic in Afghanistan. Another brother, Abdurahman, came back to Toronto after his release from Guantanamo Bay and claims to have seen the light and renounced terrorism.
After years of denial, Abdurahman has finally confessed that his family is an "al-Qaeda family". Ahmed Khadr was a fundraiser for, and a close confidant of, Osama bin Laden. All of the Khadr brothers had trained at terrorist camps in Afghanistan, a detail that their mother, Maha, is extremely proud of. She told the Canadian media that she would be love to have her sons become suicide bombers and achieve martyrdom as her late husband did.
When Maha Elsamnah returned to Canada with Karim, she demanded medical treatment for her son. The Khadrs don’t request; they demand. Ordinary law abiding Canadians were outraged that the woman who found so much joy in the collapse of the Twin Towers, was allowed to come back to Canada with her brood, demanding this and demanding that. The Canadian government refused to do anything. The official position was that the Khadrs have not broken any laws. It didn’t seem to matter that the governing Liberals have a majority and could change the law in a few hours, a process that they seem to use quite well when it comes to increasing their salaries and perks. The fact that Karim and his father fought against the Pakistani army who are allied with Canadian troops now in Afghanistan and engaged in the war against terrorism didn’t seem to faze our fearful leaders. Prime Minister Paul Martin went even further, defending these pieces of trash by saying that they have freedom of expression.
Then along came Dr. Marty McKay, a psychologist who has worked as a consultant to Children’s Aid Societies (CAS) for almost 30 years. Although she has never met the little terror tyke, McKay wrote to the Toronto CAS saying that in her professional opinion, telling children to blow themselves up is the same as counselling suicide and constitutes child abuse.
Toronto Children’s Aid, as is their policy, will not comment on any investigations that they are carrying out. But the agency is legally required to follow up on Dr. McKay’s concerns. This puts the CAS, a bastion of political correctness, in an awkward position. The Toronto Children’s Aid Society, through their umbrella organization, the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, participated in the unsuccessful attempt to have section 43 of the Criminal Code declared unconstitutional. Section 43 allows the use of reasonable force against children and pupils for corrective purposes. The CAS looks upon any form of spanking as child abuse and it will be interesting to hear what they have to say about people who teach their offspring to blow themselves up.
Political correctness dictates that the Khadrs not be criticized. When Elsamnah said that she preferred her sons to be trained in terrorist camps instead of Canada where they would be exposed to homosexuals, there wasn’t a peep. If a Conservative MP or anyone else ever said anything close to that, calls for his or her resignation led by Svend "the booster" Robinson, would have been deafening. But the Khadrs get a free pass.
If the CAS does take action, the first thing that Elsamnah will do is "demand" that she be given a lawyer free of charge, which of course will be provided. But at least she and Karim will be forced to deal with the justice system of a country that she loathes and detests. This would probably be the only time that any of the Khadrs will end up in a Canadian court. She will have to convince a judge that raising a child to believe that blowing up Jews, Americans and various other infidels is good parenting. The way this country bows to the Khadrs, she’ll have a good chance of winning.
After all, Elsamnah can always call the prime minister as a witness. He can explain how she has freedom of expression which presumably includes the freedom to teach her children to seek death for the cause.
Unlike the government, at least Marty McKay was prepared to do something.
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