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11 October 2010 By Stephen
Lendman
Canada, like other Western
countries and Israel, is partnered in America's War on
Islam - a post-9/11 "war on terror" scheme to vilify
Muslims as culturally inferior gun-toting terrorists
for political advantage. As a result, thousands of
innocent victims have been lawlessly persecuted,
bogusly charged, imprisoned, tortured, and in some
cases extrajudicially murdered in cold blood.
Two previous articles, among many
others, explained what all Muslims face, accessed
through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/09/americas-war-on-islam.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/06/canadas-war-on-islam-case-of-mohamed.html
Mahboob Khawaja, his son Momin
and family, are Pakistani Canadians, bogusly targeted
for alleged involvement in terrorism.
Dr. Khawaja is an "academic
specializing in Strategic Studies with special
interests in Western-Islamic Civilizations, Change and
Conflict Resolution." His books include "Muslims and
the West: Quest for Change and Conflict Resolution,"
as well as many published articles, his latest titled
"Fallacy of the 'War on Terrorism.' " Accurately
described as a "self-defeating," inhumane, "cynical
framework of greed and tyranny," it shamelessly
perceives Muslims "as the culprits waging war against
the Christian West."
In fact, the opposite is true.
It's been longstanding, then intensified post-9/11
globally, claiming millions of innocent victims,
thousands as political prisoners, Canada as culpable
as America.
Mahboob explained how he and his
family were persecuted, saying:
"It was a combined
(American/Canadian/UK) project, my wife and children
arrested at gunpoint in Ottawa while I was working in
a university in Saudi Arabia. My family home was
attacked by 50 - 60 armed (Royal Canadian Mounted
Police - RCMP) without any formal search warrant,
looking for a bomb," but found nothing.
In fact, Mahboob's door was blown
open. Masked RCMP burst in, telling his family to get
down on the floor, then asking "Is your house
booby-trapped? Where are the explosives?" Of course,
there were none nor any booby or other traps.
"Simultaneously, I was arrested
in Arabia and jailed for two weeks. The Saudi
Intelligence showed me the formal Canadian request,
but (Security) Minister (Anne McClellan) and the
Government in Ottawa denied" sending it. "The
documentary evidence," however, refutes "this public
lying." No matter. The damage was done. Canadian and
global media reports destroyed his "professional
career as a professor in global politics," as well as
his son, Momin's, as a software developer.
Government-sponsored media ads
and reports vilified him, his wife and children as
"terrorists," the same fate as for hundreds of others
bogusly portrayed, their lives grievously impaired as
a result. A family friend and president of the
regional Canada-Pakistan Association, Qamar Masood,
believed at the time it was a case of mistaken
identity. Importantly, "Just imagine how they're going
to live through this ordeal," he said. "And after
that, living in a neighborhood with so many eyes
looking at them, it's very hard," because of the
entire cross they'll forever have to bear.
Mahboob's son, Momin, was falsely
accused of a UK bomb plot, a March 31, 2004 Canadian
Broadcasting Company (CBC) report saying he "became
the first person charged under Canada's (2001
Anti-Terrorism Act on March 30) when police accused
him of terrorist activity in Canada and in England."
Though acquitted on that charge,
he was held without trial for over four years, then
convicted on October 29, 2008, and sentenced on March
12, 2009, after a bench trial, to ten and a half years
(over and above time served) for donating $859 to an
Afghan refugee charity, and two other changes,
including:
-- "making a device" that, in
fact, "was to stop cell phone signals in mosques,
academic institutions, hospitals," and other
facilities from being identified; and
-- "attending some (alleged)
unknown camp during a visit to Pakistan," the same
bogus charge against other innocent victims traveling
abroad to Muslim countries, some to visit families,
then linking their visits to terror plots or training
for involvement in future ones.
Despite the gross injustice, the
CBC reported on April 14, 2009 that Canada's federal
government appealed the sentence for a longer one,
possibly for life on least one of the charges. At
trial, "The Crown had sought two life sentences plus
an additional sentence of 44 - 58 years," while the
defense argued for seven and a half years with "double
credit for time already served."
However, Judge Douglas Rutherford
called Momin "a willing and eager participant" in a
terror plot, despite no evidence whatever for proof.
Nonetheless, he accused him of "assist(ing alleged
terror plotters) in many ways," adding that "It
matters not whether any terrorist activity was
actually carried out," stopping short of questioning
if any were, in fact, planned.
Surprisingly, he said authorities
hadn't proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Momin had
any direct knowledge, let alone involvement, an
admission that should have mandated acquittal, yet he
cowardly refused to release him.
Mahboob said these issues are
being appealed, but after six years, Momin is still
imprisoned, victimized by Canadian state terrorism
like thousands of others in America and globally. In
earlier writing, he explained how Canadian
Intelligence Agencies and their complicit media
terrorize innocent civilians. More on that below.
First, on March 12, 2009, the BBC
updated earlier Momin reports, headlining its account
"Khawaja: The Canadian connection," saying:
He conspired with four other men
"jailed for life in April 2007 for a UK bomb plot
linked to al-Qaeda, receiv(ing) a sentence of 10 years
and six months" for his alleged role.
A software developer, he "worked
in the technical support department of the Canadian
Department of Foreign Affairs and had a good knowledge
of electronics. Of Pakistani origin, he became
fascinated by radical Islamist politics, and its focus
on conflicts in the Muslim world." He allegedly
"traveled to Pakistan in 2003 and met members of a
loose network of jihadi sympathizers - men who
believed that violence was legitimate."
These and other charges were
alleged at trial, the BBC, like Canadian and US media,
accepting them on faith - no matter that they're
entirely bogus and should have been thrown out because
no credible evidence was presented, only the usual
unsubstantiated government version of events, some
based on secret evidence unavailable to counsel.
Yet BBC accused Momin of
terrorism, saying he returned to Britain "intent on
building a bomb," his role being "to help to build the
detonator." In fact, a sting, a setup, targeted him at
a claimed Heathrow Airport meeting with Omar Khyam,
the accused "ringleader." MI5 and London police
allegedly monitored it. UK authorities informed
Canada's RCMP who arrested Momin on March 29, 2004,
claiming they "found documents and papers sympathetic
to violent jihadi courses of action" in his home,
besides whatever information UK authorities provided,
all of it contrived and bogus.
As a result, on October 29, 2008,
an Judge Douglas Rutherford "ruled that (Momin) had
knowingly participated in the (alleged) foiled plot
against several British targets, including a shopping
center, nightclub and the gas work." Though bogusly
charged and convicted, he's now imprisoned and falsely
branded a terrorist, an accusation that will haunt him
forever.
An earlier article discussed the
bogus London terror plot, accessed through the
following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/12/persecution-of-syed-fahad-hashmi.html
It explained the following, a
technique used repeatedly in Britain, Canada, America,
and elsewhere. A government cooperator was paid to
entrap and testify against targeted Muslims. The
so-called London plot (called the Fertilizer Case)
used Juniad Babar, a dubious character nicknamed "Supergrass"
by Britain's media.
In 2004, he agreed to cooperate
with FBI agents after being indicted in June. He then
pled guilty to four counts of conspiring to and
providing and attempting to provide material support
or resources to terrorists. A fifth count involved
providing funds, goods, or services to benefit Al-Qaeda.
In return for a reduced sentence, he copped a plea,
requiring him to provide "substantial assistance,"
including entrapping and testifying against targeted
Muslims, ones authorities want to frame and convict.
London's Fertilizer Case involved
a half-ton of ammonium nitrate, allegedly to blow up a
London shopping center, nightclub and other targets -
bogus charges that nonetheless got targeted "bombers"
convicted and imprisoned, including Momin, even though
there was no plot and no crime. In his case, "two
hired agents of the Canadian intelligence services
(charged him) with two counts of 'bomb making'
(involvement) in (Britain)," where the other alleged
plotters were brought to trial, not him.
Writing earlier about media
complicity with authorities, Mahboob quoted British
author Adam Curtis saying, "international terrorism is
a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by
politicians" for political advantage. It's "a dark
illusion that has spread unquestioned through
governments around the world, the security services
and the international media."
To advance American, UK,
Canadian, and Israeli imperialism, their "ruling
elite(s) invested heavily to institutionalize
animosity towards Muslims and the Arabs. The new 21st
century colonial masters view humanity in numbers and
digits, not as living moral beings with rights and
dignity."
In America, extremist neo-cons
"use racism and religious fanaticism to fuel hatred
towards Muslims and Islam, and engulf the world with
horror of military conquests (and occupations) to
further the dictum of" global dominance.
In America, Britain, Canada,
Israel, and other Western states, Muslims are treated
like sub-humans, vilified as dangerous villains unfit
to co-exist with superior Judeo-Christians, a subtle
and overt government/media spread message. As a
result, nominal democracies act tyrannically, serving
privileged elites, not popular interests, and needing
enemies to justify expansionist policies, including
imperial wars and state-sponsored terrorism to further
them.
In an earlier article, Mahboob
asked:
"What did Canada achieve (by)
destabiliz(ing) the Khawaja family, drain(ing)-out
their human energies in arrest, torture and
(persecuting them for years) as 'Muslim
terrorists'...?" The "demonstrable record (shows)
Canada had no incidents of extremism or terrorism at
all," putting a lie to government accusations based on
an alleged plot that never existed. Authorities even
claimed they never raided the Khawaja home even though
family members were terrorized and arrested.
Possessions were seized, damage done, and hundreds of
neighbors saw it.
The plain truth is that Western
nations face no Islamic threat. Claiming one is a
US-concocted lie. Authorities and media reports
viciously spread it to justify state-sponsored
terrorism against innocent victims like Mahboob and
his family, including son Momin, now imprisoned for
being Muslim at the wrong time in Canada.
Stephen Lendman lives in
Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
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