{"id":971,"date":"2010-10-10T21:49:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/10\/canada%e2%80%99s-war-on-islam-the-case-of-mahboob-and-momin-khawaja\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T16:19:47","slug":"canadas-war-on-islam-the-case-of-mahboob-and-momin-khawaja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/10\/canadas-war-on-islam-the-case-of-mahboob-and-momin-khawaja\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s War on Islam: The Case of Mahboob and Momin Khawaja"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s War on Islam: The Case of Mahboob and Momin Khawaja | Dissident Voice<\/a><\/p>\n

by Stephen Lendman \/ October 9th, 2010<\/p>\n

Canada, like other Western countries and Israel, is partnered in America\u2019s War on Islam \u2014 a post-9\/11 \u201cwar on terror\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Two previous articles, among many others, explained what all Muslims face, accessed here and here.<\/p>\n

Mahboob Khawaja, his son Momin and family, are Pakistani Canadians, bogusly targeted for alleged involvement in terrorism.<\/p>\n

Dr. Khawaja is an \u201cacademic specializing in Strategic Studies with special interests in Western-Islamic Civilizations, Change and Conflict Resolution.\u201d His books include \u201cMuslims and the West: Quest for Change and Conflict Resolution,\u201d as well as many published articles, his latest titled \u201cFallacy of the \u2018War on Terrorism.\u2019 \u201d Accurately described as a \u201cself-defeating,\u201d inhumane, \u201ccynical framework of greed and tyranny,\u201d it shamelessly perceives Muslims \u201cas the culprits waging war against the Christian West.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, the opposite is true. It\u2019s been longstanding, then intensified post-9\/11 globally, claiming millions of innocent victims, thousands as political prisoners, Canada as culpable as America.<\/p>\n

Mahboob explained how he and his family were persecuted, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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 \u2013 60 armed (Royal Canadian Mounted Police \u2013 RCMP) without any formal search warrant, looking for a bomb,\u201d but found nothing.<\/p>\n

In fact, Mahboob\u2019s door was blown open. Masked RCMP burst in, telling his family to get down on the floor, then asking \u201cIs your house booby-trapped? Where are the explosives?\u201d Of course, there were none nor any booby or other traps.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimultaneously, 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\u201d sending it. \u201cThe documentary evidence,\u201d however, refutes \u201cthis public lying.\u201d No matter. The damage was done. Canadian and global media reports destroyed his \u201cprofessional career as a professor in global politics,\u201d as well as his son, Momin\u2019s, as a software developer.<\/p>\n

Government-sponsored media ads and reports vilified him, his wife and children as \u201cterrorists,\u201d 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, \u201cJust imagine how they\u2019re going to live through this ordeal,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd after that, living in a neighborhood with so many eyes looking at them, it\u2019s very hard,\u201d because of the entire cross they\u2019ll forever have to bear.<\/p>\n

Mahboob\u2019s son, Momin, was falsely accused of a UK bomb plot, a March 31, 2004 Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) report saying he \u201cbecame the first person charged under Canada\u2019s (2001 Anti-Terrorism Act on March 30) when police accused him of terrorist activity in Canada and in England.\u201d<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201cmaking a device\u201d that, in fact, \u201cwas to stop cell phone signals in mosques, academic institutions, hospitals,\u201d and other facilities from being identified; and<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201cattending some (alleged) unknown camp during a visit to Pakistan,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Despite the gross injustice, the CBC reported on April 14, 2009 that Canada\u2019s federal government appealed the sentence for a longer one, possibly for life on least one of the charges. At trial, \u201cThe Crown had sought two life sentences plus an additional sentence of 44 \u2013 58 years,\u201d while the defense argued for seven and a half years with \u201cdouble credit for time already served.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Judge Douglas Rutherford called Momin \u201ca willing and eager participant\u201d in a terror plot, despite no evidence whatever for proof. Nonetheless, he accused him of \u201cassist(ing alleged terror plotters) in many ways,\u201d adding that \u201cIt matters not whether any terrorist activity was actually carried out,\u201d stopping short of questioning if any were, in fact, planned.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, he said authorities hadn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

First, on March 12, 2009, the BBC updated earlier Momin reports, headlining its account \u201cKhawaja: The Canadian connection,\u201d saying:<\/p>\n

He conspired with four other men \u201cjailed for life in April 2007 for a UK bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda, receiv(ing) a sentence of 10 years and six months\u201d for his alleged role.<\/p>\n

A software developer, he \u201cworked 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.\u201d He allegedly \u201ctraveled to Pakistan in 2003 and met members of a loose network of jihadi sympathizers \u2013 men who believed that violence was legitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

These and other charges were alleged at trial, the BBC, like Canadian and US media, accepting them on faith \u2013 no matter that they\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n

Yet BBC accused Momin of terrorism, saying he returned to Britain \u201cintent on building a bomb,\u201d his role being \u201cto help to build the detonator.\u201d In fact, a sting, a setup, targeted him at a claimed Heathrow Airport meeting with Omar Khyam, the accused \u201cringleader.\u201d MI5 and London police allegedly monitored it. UK authorities informed Canada\u2019s RCMP who arrested Momin on March 29, 2004, claiming they \u201cfound documents and papers sympathetic to violent jihadi courses of action\u201d in his home, besides whatever information UK authorities provided, all of it contrived and bogus.<\/p>\n

As a result, on October 29, 2008, a Judge Douglas Rutherford \u201cruled that (Momin) had knowingly participated in the (alleged) foiled plot against several British targets, including a shopping center, nightclub and the gas work.\u201d Though bogusly charged and convicted, he\u2019s now imprisoned and falsely branded a terrorist, an accusation that will haunt him forever.<\/p>\n

An earlier article discussed the bogus London terror plot, accessed here.<\/p>\n

It explained the following, a technique used
\n 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 \u201cSupergrass\u201d by Britain\u2019s media.<\/p>\n

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 \u201csubstantial assistance,\u201d including entrapping and testifying against targeted Muslims, ones authorities want to frame and convict.<\/p>\n

London\u2019s Fertilizer Case involved a half-ton of ammonium nitrate, allegedly to blow up a London shopping center, nightclub and other targets \u2013 bogus charges that nonetheless got targeted \u201cbombers\u201d convicted and imprisoned, including Momin, even though there was no plot and no crime. In his case, \u201ctwo hired agents of the Canadian intelligence services (charged him) with two counts of \u2018bomb making\u2019 (involvement) in (Britain),\u201d where the other alleged plotters were brought to trial, not him.<\/p>\n

Writing earlier about media complicity with authorities, Mahboob quoted British author Adam Curtis saying, \u201cinternational terrorism is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians\u201d for political advantage. It\u2019s \u201ca dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media.\u201d<\/p>\n

To advance American, UK, Canadian, and Israeli imperialism, their \u201cruling 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

In America, extremist neo-cons \u201cuse 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\u201d global dominance.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In an earlier article, Mahboob asked:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did Canada achieve (by) destabiliz(ing) the Khawaja family, drain(ing)-out their human energies in arrest, torture and (persecuting them for years) as \u2018Muslim terrorists\u2019\u2026?\u201d The \u201cdemonstrable record (shows) Canada had no incidents of extremism or terrorism at all,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. Contact him at: lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM-1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests. All programs are archived for easy listening. Read other articles by Stephen.<\/p>\n

This article was posted on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 at 7:00am and is filed under Canada, Corruption, Discrimination, Human Rights, Media, Military\/Militarism, Pakistan, Propaganda, Racism, Religion. ShareThis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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