Terrorists 1, Canada 0

23 February, 2007 (AP)
OTTAWA — One of Canada’s most contentious anti-terrorism provisions was struck down Friday by the Supreme Court, which declared it unconstitutional to detain foreign terror suspects indefinitely while the courts review their deportation orders.
–Letting them go and hoping they show up at the deportation hearing is a much better idea?
The 9-0 ruling was a blow to the government’s anti-terrorism regulations. Five Arab Muslim men have been held for years under the ”security certificate” program, which the Justice Department had insisted is a key tool in the fight against global terrorism and essential to Canada’s security.
The court found that the system violates the Charter of Rights and Freedom, Canada’s bill of rights. It suspended the judgment from taking effect for a year, to give Parliament time to rewrite the part of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that covers the certificates.
–Looks like a few more laws designed to hold people who are in reality enemy agents are needed
The security certificates were challenged on constitutional grounds by three men from Morocco, Syria and Algeria _ all alleged by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to have ties to al-Qaida and other terrorist networks.
The law now allows sensitive intelligence to be heard behind closed doors by a federal judge, with only sketchy summaries given to defense attorneys.
–Common sense, if the had to share this information with Lawyers there would be a rash of Muslim Lawyers
The men have spent years in jail while fighting deportation orders. They risk being labeled terrorists and sent back to their native countries, where they face possible torture.
–Take a hint their own Governments think they are dangerous
The court called this a fundamental violation of their human rights.
”The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is this: Before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in a ruling for all nine justices.
”The secrecy required by the scheme denies the person named in a certificate the opportunity to know the case put against him or her, and hence to challenge the governments case,” she said.
The court said the men and their lawyers should have a right to respond to the evidence used against them by intelligence agents and noted that a law in Britain allows special advocates to review sensitive intelligence material.
The Justice Department said it would have no immediate comment.
–We all know how Muslims protect our rights
Two of the men are out on bail and remain under house arrest. Three others are being held in a federal facility in Ontario that has been dubbed the ”Guantanamo Bay of the North,” a reference to the prison at the U.S. base in Cuba.
Human rights activists and lawyers for the men hailed the ruling as a victory for those who believe fundamental rights and freedoms have been overshadowed by the demands of national security since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
”This is a judgment that, quite frankly, I think we should all be very proud of, because our court has not bought into the rhetoric of national security,” said John Norris, who represents one of the five. ”They have recognized the fundamental importance of preserving the security of all of us, but at the same time has stated, in the clearest possible terms, that that must never be done at the expense of human rights.”
–You did show Dhimmi’s are much more dangerous than previously thought.

Islamaphobic Muslim Convicted of Arson

I would rather have seen him convicted of an anti Muslim hate crime but this still gets him off the street. I would like to know if any of his illgotten gains went to support terrorists, I would be surprised if that were not the case.

2/23/2007 11:06 AM AP/Ummah News Links.
SEATTLE – A Pakistani immigrant accused of burning down his grocery store in Everett and trying to make it look like a hate crime has been convicted of arson.

Mizra Akram, 40, could face as much as five years in prison for the crime. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman convicted him Wednesday.

Akram owned Continental Spices, a Pakistani and Middle Eastern grocery. Prosecutors said he recruited an acquaintance, Naveed Khan, to help set the July 2004 fire after the store’s finances worsened.

‘Muslim first and Australian second’

What we have here is another fine example of Muslim loyalty and why attempts to integrate them into western culture are impossible.

23 February, 2007 (AAP)
The former wife of Willie Brigitte says she regrets talking to authorities about the suspected terrorist and insists she is a Muslim first and Australian second.
Melanie Brown, who married Brigitte in September 2003, said she now regretted giving information to ASIO and French authorities, News Ltd newspapers report.
She said she did not believe her former husband had been planning an attack on Australia.
“If you marry someone, you have loyalty to them. It’s a very strong thing – you don’t dob on your husband or wife of your brother or sister in Islam,” she says in an interview with the Nine Network to be screened on Sunday.
“I took the decision to co-operate, I felt it was the lesser of two evils but looking back I wish I had stayed silent.”
Ms Brown said she hoped that her loyalties lie “first to my religion then to Australia”.
She said she would not condone an attack on Australian soil but said some incidents occurring overseas were not necessarily acts of terrorism.
“Who says it’s a terrorist attack? That’s a hard question to answer – there is a fight on overseas and it’s hard to come up with a clear understanding of what’s going on.
“There isn’t clear information from both sides coming out.”
Brigitte is before the courts in Paris, having been expelled from Australia on visa irregularities.
He is accused of training in Pakistan with Lashkar-e-Toiba – a group linked to al-Qaeda – and of preparing to go to war in Afghanistan.
He also has been accused of being linked to a plot to blow up the Australian electricity supply system.
Ms Brown, who is studying teaching at Sydney University, and Brigitte are now divorced.