Canadian Values means paying terrorist millions

While this is old news here in Canada, Fox News recently discovered the fact that the Government of Canada, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (son of Pierre), gave al Qaeda terrorist Omar Khadr a $10.5 (CAD) Million ‘settlement’ because his Charter rights were violated as a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. Somehow this only makes sense to progressives and members of the Liberal Party of Canada, as the alleged “violations” of “rights” happened in a place over which the Government of Canada had absolutely no control and where Khadr was being held as a hostile foreign combatant who killed an American soldier and blinded another following a firefight in Afghanistan. Trudeau’s rationale for paying off Khadr was that we are obligated to protect the rights of all Canadians, “even when it’s unpopular.”

While protecting Charter Rights isn’t necessarily a popularity contest, one has to ask, what the hell was Khadr doing in Afghanistan killing American soldiers? As a little background here’s part of what I wrote in these pages back in December of 2003:

“With the Khadrs the term ‘all in the family’ really applies, as 17 year old Omar Khadr, son of Abdul Said, was captured by American troops in Afghanistan, after he killed an American soldier with a hand grenade, while playing dead. This Canadian born youth presumably also underwent training in Afghanistan, as it’s a sure bet he didn’t learn the effective use of hand grenades here in Canada.”

But this is just a keyhole peek at the Khadrs. The family embodies terrorism in all its ugliness, and yes, they are very unpopular in Canada, except among Islamists and Liberals. Ahmed Said Khadr, Omar’s father, was a close personal friend of Osama bin Laden. His son and Omar’s brother, Abdurahman also spent time at Gitmo, but was released, allegedly because he agreed to work for the CIA.

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Then there’s Abdulkareem, a younger brother, who was involved in the same gunfight that killed the senior Khadr in Waziristan, where he suffered an injury that left him paralyzed. Coincidentally, after being wounded, Abdulkareem’s mother, Maha el-Samna, returned the lad to Canada for the excellent (and free) healthcare. And don’t get me started on Maha el-Samna, the she-wolf of Islamic supremacism. Her public statements about Canadian values would fill a tome with venomous hatred, starting with how she feels about gay people, or “homosexuals’ as she calls them. There are many more members of the Khadr family that are equally radical, but less proactive in the exercise of their radicalism. Where was I? Oh, Omar Khadr and his $10.5 million windfall. The convenient excuse for the payment offered up by the progressive brain trust is that Khadr was a “child soldier” who at age 15 had little or no choice than to participate in his crazy father’s violent vitriol in Afghanistan. I had always imagined child soldiers to be adolescent young tykes who were kidnapped and forced to fight under pain of death. Somehow I don’t think this is necessarily the case with Omar. But that begs the question; why should Canadian taxpayers foot the bill to mollycoddle an Islamic terrorist whose raison d’etre is the destruction of Western civilization? What’s more, this blood money makes ALL Canadians look complicit and sullies the heroic actions of all allied troops who left their lives or body parts behind. Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada are on par with Vichy France or the Quisling regime in their collaboration with an Islamic terrorist.