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Welcome back Khadr

by arthur Weinreb, associate Editor,

april 22, 2004

On april 9, paralyzed 14-year-old Karim Khadr returned to Canada from Pakistan with his mother and sister. Karim was the son of ahmed Khadr, who first gained fame when the "humanitarian aid worker" was arrested in Pakistan for allegedly being involved in a plot to blow up the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad. The family patriarch was released from custody when former Canadian prime minister, Jean (there are no terrorists in Canada) Chrétien put pressure on then Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to free him.

The Khadrs are quite the little family. ahmed, 57, was killed last October in a fight with the Pakistani army near the Pakistan-afghanistan border. It was in that battle that 14-year-old Karim was injured and paralyzed. Son Omar is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay after he was captured in a firefight. This little darling is accused of throwing a grenade that caused the death of an american medic. Their brother abduallah’s whereabouts are unknown and it is believed that he is somewhere in the tribal area of Pakistan, close to where his father was killed. Brother abdurahman is back living in Toronto after having been released from Guantanamo Bay and claims to have worked for U.S. intelligence agencies. Since the prodigal son’s return, abdurahman has admitted that his family is an "al-Qaeda" family and close to Osama bin Laden. all the Khadr brothers have graduated, summa cum laude from terrorist training camps in afghanistan.

ahmed’s widow, Maha Elsamnah is a real piece of work. When she’s not denying the family’s close ties to bin Laden she talks about her joy when the World Trade Centre came down and the Pentagon was attacked. She is glad her sons trained in terrorist camps and said it was preferable to them having remained in Canada where they would have been exposed to homosexuality and drugs. She is proud that her husband died as a martyr and would have been happy if her sons would have become suicide bombers. although she would rejoice at their deaths, she apparently doesn’t’ like them crippled. She had no qualms about running back to Canada so that Karim could take advantage of Canada’s wonderful medical system, not the least of which is that it’s free.

Sister Zaynab who also returned from Pakistan wishes that she and her daughter could die as martyrs like her father did.

Rounding out Canada’s first family is Granny Khadr. She stays in Canada and her function seems to be screaming at the media from behind a half opened door about how her lovely family is being persecuted just because they’re Muslims.

The return of the Khadrs has outraged many ordinary Canadians. Petitions have been circulated that demand they be stripped of their Canadian citizenship. Conservative Party foreign affairs critic, Stockwell Day, has called for changes in the Citizenship act so that the Khadrs can be stripped of their citizenship and removed from Canada. The response from the federal government has been that they are Canadian citizens and have a right to remain in Canada. When a majority government that has the power to change the law says that nothing can be done because of the law, it is just another way of saying that the Khadrs are perfectly welcome to remain in this country.

The Khadrs are poster children for Canada’s multicultural policies. Except for the province of Quebec, Canada doesn’t have a culture--our culture is everybody else’s culture. Unlike the United States we have never been a melting pot. When people arrive here from other countries, wishing to become "Canadians" the government just throws money at them so that they can practice the culture that they carried out at home. Canadians such as Karim, citizens by birth, are taught that Canada is secondary to the country that their parents came from. This was evident at a basketball game that was played in Toronto a few years ago between the national teams of Canada and Greece. The Canadian team was booed by a large contingent of young Greek-Canadians who were born in this country.

Many of the practices by different ethnic groups in Canada are beneficial to society. Most are benign. But it is naïve to think that we can encourage multiculturalism to the extent that we do without producing and encouraging garbage like the Khadrs.

It is no surprise that the government of Canada will take no action. When multiculturalism conflicts with security, multiculturalism will always take precedence.

So, as the song says--welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.