[news] Canadian Terror: A Tragedy Of Ignorance

Mon Jun 28 19:46:05 PDT 2004

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Canadian Terror: A Tragedy Of Ignorance

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    The Canadian Government was supposed to oppose terrorism, instead it
    inflicted on us. The writer and his family got a first hand
    experience of the Canadian Government inflicted "terrorism." North
    American governments cherishing liberal democratic values were
    supposed to be opposing terrorism, not inflicting on their own
    citizens. Across the globe, by virtue of aggressive policy behavior,
    many democratic regimes are attempting to discard human rights and
    sabotage the effectiveness of human growth and civilizations. 

Canadian Terror: A Tragedy Of Ignorance

Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.

Complicity of Canadian Government to Terrorize Muslim Citizens

The Canadian Government was supposed to oppose terrorism, instead it 
inflicted on us. The writer and his family got a first hand experience 
of the Canadian Government inflicted "terrorism."

North American governments cherishing liberal democratic values were 
supposed to be opposing terrorism, not inflicting on their own citizens. 
Across the globe, by virtue of aggressive policy behavior, many 
democratic regimes are attempting to discard human rights and sabotage 
the effectiveness of human growth and civilizations. People of knowledge 
and wisdom must realize that police action and armed assault do not 
produce peace, social harmony and justice, and for sure, guns and 
bullets destroy all living things. When people produce products and 
services, societies and nations grow and prosper. People and markets 
grow in freedom, not in fear. Canadian intelligence services are using 
the logic of power, whereas, in democratic Canada, people would prefer 
an argument based on the power of logic and facts. Being big does not 
frighten the enlightened masses. When the educated and responsible 
citizens are mistreated and portrayed as an evil, history calls it the 
beginning to end of the repressive era. President Harry Truman made a 
candid observation:

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice 
of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of 
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to 
all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

North American citizens of Japanese origin waited half a century to see 
the official apology for their mistreatment by Canada and America during 
the 2nd World War. Should the Muslims be treated likewise? History sees 
nations by their actions, not by their claims. Could we, the people of 
living conscience, take specific intelligent and proactive steps to 
reverse the prospective historical blunders?

Facts are known, but the political reasons for the police action are 
unknown. From all the available factual information, we believe that we 
were targeted because we are Muslim. The newspapers highlighted the 
religious and political derogatory in headlines, contents and ultimate 
objectivity. On March 29, the RCMP/CSIS anti-terrorist squad raided my 
family home in Orleans, Ontario (Canada), in search of "bomb-making" 
materials but found no evidence to support the accusations or reasons 
for the search warrant.

A movie style attack with 40 plus masked gunmen accompanying 
international news media glitz, they smashed the doors, damaged other 
property, and arrested the family members at gunpoint, all to log in the 
proper entry data for the new Project Awaken.

"Is your house booby-trapped?" "Where are the explosives?" asked the 
armed guards. My shaken son could not understand what was going on at 
that particular moment in time clock? Could it be a rehearsal scene from 
a violent Hollywood movie? Or may be there is some mix-up in the address 
that is why the armed squad are pointing guns at me? "Don't move, don't 
move," shouted the masked men. It must be unreal, thought my daughter, 
who was horrified and became numb by the masked intruders, who tied her 
hands behind and asked her to remain silent. My wife went to do grocery, 
not knowing, our children will not consume it at breakfast and lunch. 
There will be no time allowed to children to take foods, as this was the 
new law and order. The lady officers of the invading army picked her up 
from the store, and younger sons were called out of the classrooms. My 
wife in Ottawa, frightened and speechless woke me up in Arabia during 
the early morning hours on March 30, to inform that our house was under 
police raid. The female escort officer was Corpl. Sherdina; I asked her, 
what is the problem officer? She replied in cellular phone, "we have 
house search warrant for bomb-making material." No officer, I said, 
there must be something wrong, we are not the people in this kind of 
business. She promised, some senior officer would call me with more 
information. That did not happen until this day.

Like the violent tornado, they destroyed in minutes, what took us years 
to build - the human dignity, social well being and living together in a 
civilized community of educated people. The law enforcement agencies 
follow the laws written in books for the human society. Legal 
stipulations are composed of paper and dry ink, do not have mind, heart 
and consideration on their own, but those who implement it, do. Our 
experience clearly shows that we were treated like the sub-human 
citizens living in 21st century Canada. The RCMP/CSIS armed raid was 
exact replicated action of the American troops behavior against the 
Iraqi civilians. Recently, Erich Murquardt (" US Prisoner Abuse 
Scandal", PINR, May 11, 2004), noted:

"arresting authorities entered houses usually after dark, breaking down 
doors, yelling orders, forcing family members under military 
guard...further breaking the cabinets...insulting, taking aims with 
rifles..."

But there was no war going on in Orleans (Canada), why did the RCMP/CSIS 
act like fighting in a war zone? Was this show of Armada force necessary 
to the public interest? Most of our immediate neighbors were outraged at 
the massive display of force, 40 plus RCMP armed squad, aiming loaded 
guns at the ordinary law-abiding citizens, just to implement the house 
search warrant for 8-10 hours. It defies the logic and necessity. Other 
voices of reason and concerns were loud and clear throughout the local 
neighborhood community. The Canadian Government requested Saudi Arabia 
to arrest me and she helped me to become helpless, and portrayed the 
academic in strategic studies and Western-Islamic civilizations as an 
alleged "terrorist" and "bomb-maker" on global TV networks. Those who 
saw and heard it, must have believed in it. My professional integrity 
and lifelines were cut into pieces. The Canadian supplied document 
served as the working charge sheet. It took two weeks of unpleasant 
captivity to be freed again without charges. The Canadian Government 
denies it ever asked for my arrest. The available documentary evidence 
speaks its own language of truth. Does the Canadian Government ever lie? 
Eric Hoffer must have felt the same sensitivity:

"those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make 
their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies 
come true."

I have asked the Honorable Minister of Justice in Canada, to tell me the 
reasons for this unwarranted and unjustifiable RCMP raid against my 
family and human dignity, she has yet to reply. The Canadian Government 
was supposed to oppose the terrorism, not inflict on us. Some tragedies 
have no smoke or flames to describe the intensity. Our tragedy is 
explicitly an
outcome of ignorance, misinformation and incompetence on the part of the 
intelligence police apparatus.

Undoubtedly, the RCMP/CSIS are dismayed; we showed no confusing reaction 
to their aggressive and inhuman stunt against the law-abiding citizens. 
We are civilized people, not monkeys to imitate them. Our perspectives 
articulate logic, truth and integrity as the primary tools for public 
communication, enabling us to reason the unreason. Their contentions of 
"terrorism" and "bomb-making" continued to draw hollow laughter in 
academic circles, and are viewed by informed media as satirical staged 
soap opera, and their ambiguous explanatory assertions ignored by the 
well-informed public. With large number of masked gunmen on display, 
they wanted to make the spectators believe in their charge sheet, 
linking us to "terrorism", but they failed badly not to find any 
evidence to support the allegations.

Their failure could be witnessed from the sound of the shackles they put 
on my son Momin's feet, to show an innocent and intelligent person of 
high moral and professional integrity, as guilty of something unknown. 
Interestingly enough, nobody knows including the government, what he is 
guilty of? To the public eye, a chained Momin Khawaja will portray the 
image of a threat to society. This image of Muslims is readily available 
in police warehouses to analyze the merits of Project Awaken as relevant 
and feasible.

Canadians are well known being softhearted, sporty-spirited, friendly 
people with an appreciable sense of humor, complemented by their own 
brand taste of Canadian Molson bear. But when you ask a plain, 
non-satirical question from the responsible Minister or from the 
intelligence agencies, they may surprise you with a strange and 
non-conformant response to confirm the prevalent Peter Principle across 
the board. Ironically enough, it seems that the elite offenders do 
generate noticeable attention in the free news media including the 
political scripted popular CBC Canadian Farce. When the authorities are 
asked to comment on the public outrage against their unethical behavior 
toward the citizens, they carefully orchestrate one sentence of 
non-reactive humor, taking sanctuary in "no comments."

Once Voltaire noted:

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who 
wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and 
will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and 
otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
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Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. is an academic who specializes in strategic 
studies with interests in comparative civilizations, and author of 
"Muslims and the West: Quest for Change and Conflict Resolution.")

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