[wvns] Dr. Mahboob Khawaja: Fallacy of Terrorism
Fallacy of Terrorism:
Role of Canadian Intelligence Agencies to Terrorize Citizens:
"Fix Khawaja" [Bush]
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
Do cruelty, falsehood and wickedness have known faces and shapes?
Only if you have experienced it, you will know it. If so, would you
not strive to seek the protection of law and ultimate goal of
justice? The quest for justice itself presupposes injustice. In
Western democracies, manufactured "suspicion" and individual
opinions, not the facts of life, are fast becoming the criterion of
legal provisions to prosecute innocent citizens as alleged terrorist
across North America and Europe. Guantanamao Bay could well be
identified as the "Abu Ghraib" of America. The American led " war of
choice": perpetual war creating perpetual fear contributing to
perpetual profits, the mutual alliance of the governments and mass
media networks to carve up images of Muslims and Islam as the focused
creed of alleged terrorism. Eric Margolis (" The big lie
about `Islamic Fascism'": Aug 28, 2006), a distinguished Canadian
journalist quotes the observation of Sir Peter Ustinov: "terrorism is
the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."
Canadian Maher Arar was the first victim. He was guilty of traveling
thru JFK shortly after the 9/11 attacks, but Canadian intelligence
agencies identified him as a fundamentalist and security risk. He was
suspected to have been involved in something that later on Canadian
establishments could not prove except they arranged third party
torture and victimized him for long time. The political dictum
of "suspicion" was used to imprison Maher Arar in Syria. How
conveniently suspicion was transformed into accepted norm to arrest,
imprison and torture Muslims throughout the Western
world. "Suspicion" became the threshold for police actions, not the
societal laws to use force to demonstrate the opinions and
preconceived notions of the few minority elite against the citizens.
History was re-enacted not learnt from, when people of Japanese
origin were interned in Canada and the US during the 2nd WW. It was
suspicion implied as law of the land – a political, moral and legal
injustice to the citizens of Canada and America who had no role to
play in the making of the WW2. Half century later, both Canada and
the US offered apology to those either in graveyards or their
succeeding generations kept the harsh memory of sufferings alive.
After the Maher Arar tragedy, it was Dr. Khawaja and his family, the
next targeted victims of the "War on Terror." According to the Globe
and Mail (July 18, 2005), President Bush had instructed Paul Martin
to "fix Khawaja." On March 29, 2004, Canadian Intelligence armed
brigade attacked the Khawaja family residence in Orleans and at
gunpoint arrested his wife. His school children were called out of
the classroom under the guise of "bomb making" but police found no
evidence to support the accusation. The newspaper Citizen and CBC
were instrumental to falsify the information base and articulated
fear mongering fictitious episode to misinform the public. While this
stunt was staged near the capital, the agency formally requested
Saudi Arabia to detain Dr. Khawaja who was teaching in a university.
What were the charges against as per the documentary evidence? He is
father of accused Momin Khawaja, who since March 2004 is a political
prisoner of conscience at a Canadian detention center without a trial
on charges of "terrorism" involvement in the UK case of March 2004.
The then Security Minister Ms. Anne McClellan denied ever requesting
a foreign government to arrest the scholar. The real world events and
documentary evidence provide a different picture that the Canadian
Government was lying to safeguard its illegal action against its own
citizen. Does a political Minister ever lie? Do agents of
intelligence services ever lie? The honorable Judge presiding over
the Maher Arar investigation clearly pointed out the history of
misinformation and lies involving the official intelligence
organizations. Consequently, the Chief of the one of the intelligence
agency was asked to resign. To poison the mindset of soft-hearted
Canadian public thru the media screen, young Momin was chained to
show the public that he is abnormal and dangerous to public interest,
not that he has done anything wrong or illegal. Four years later, his
case has not gone to trial because the government has no tangible
evidence to prove the accusation in a public court. The prosecution
uses dogmas, not facts that a secret trial should be conducted to
protect the interest of the state. In a democratic valued society as
Canada is, how ridiculous it seems that if the prosecution is sure of
its claim, why not have an open public trial? Why to look for escape
from the real world? After all, what is so secret about political
terrorism? Does it mean that informed public will no longer trust in
the official version and realize that it was a political trial, not a
criminal case to start with? Consequently, the masses will point
finger at the continuing failure of the intelligence services to
use "suspicion", and not the law of the land to prosecute its own
citizens. Now the prosecution insists on a secret trial of Momin
Khawaja whereas public opinions are questioning the official dictum.
For Four years, Momin has been imprisoned for unproven allegations
under the law of suspicion to have participated in some conspiracy to
bomb making theory. The defense lawyer Mr. Greenspon argues to have
access to secret files on terror suspect and clarifies that "MOMIN
KHAWAJA IS AT RISK OF BEING WRONGLY CONVICTED…and "THAT HE COULD BE
WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED FOR LIFE IF THE GOVERNMENT INSISTS ON
WITHHOLDING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IT ADMITS IS RELEVANT TO HIS
DEFENCE AGAINST TERRORISM CHARGES." Contrary to this, the prosecution
claims that an open trial would harm the national security and
relations with foreign governments. To defy logic and facts, the
prosecution contends two distinct orders of TRUTH. Truth is One, not
many, that it is a political trial as it is being identified by the
Canadian Justice Department to be mindful of "security policy" and
relations with foreign governments – as the reasoning to hold the
secret trial. In democratic governance, the official opinion is
flawed, secret trials are a negation of liberty, human rights,
freedom and justice – justice delayed is justice denied. Momin and
his family continue to be punished, not because they are guilty of
any crimes except on suspicion; they are being treated as guilty of
crimes without committing any crimes. In several communication, Dr.
Khawaja asked the Federal Minster, why he and his family are being
systematically victimized? The Minister would only reply with "no
comments." Amnesty International asked the Canadian Government the
same question but got abstract reply. Would the new Progressive
Conservative Canadian Government review its policy and take
initiative to apologize to the innocent victims of its inherited
policy on terrorism? Would it free Momin Khawaja after four years of
harsh ordeal at a detention center? Would the current Minister of
Security with first-hand knowledge of the issues initiate action and
facilitate measures to deliver justice and compensate the Khawaja
family for the state sponsored terrorism against its own citizens?
After all President Bush is leaving the White House soon and perhaps
Canada needs to see its own policy interest and national priorities
rather than blindly follow the American adventures to undo the world
peace and harmony. Eric Margolis sheds more light on the media
created images fostered by the governmental policy sponsorship: " In
the Western world, hatred of Muslims has become a key ideological
hallmark of rightwing parties. We see this overtly in the United
States, France, Italy, Holland …and most lately Canada." End
cannot be assumed based on the notion of "suspicion", and dogmas
cannot replace truth to explain the facts of human life. When facts
live in denial, dogmas construct dark illusions to assert the
political agenda for encroachment of human rights, dignity and real
freedom. The Canadian intelligence apparatus enjoys history of flawed
record to victimize people under the "war on terror." Given the
obvious public mistrust, they seem to be overwhelmingly occupied in
building castles over moving sand. British author and producer Adam
Curtis ("Power of Nightmares re-awakened" BBC), made attempts to re-
awaken the human conscience that the myth of international terrorism
is a misleading political phenomenon to embark on American ambitions
of global hegemony. Michael Meacher, MP and former UK Minister of
Environment of Blair's Cabinet points out to the same agenda ("This
War on Terrorism is Bogus:"): "It seems that the so called "war on
terrorism" is being used largely as bogus cover for achieving wider
US strategic geopolitical objectives." On the part of targeted
victims of this war of choice is similar to those cases of the 2nd WW
internment of people of Japanese, German and Italian origins in North
America. The search for justice itself implies the pr-existence of
injustice. Justice and societal harmony cannot be preached in the
name of illegal detentions and systematic torture of the citizens.
Targeted victims look to human conscience to stop the continued
political cruelty, violations of human rights and travesty of
justice. Those whose lives have been destroyed by the false official
claims of terrorism, do ask the living and THINKING People of the
globe, could there be two distinct orders of truth? Is there any
legal stipulations in Canada to prosecute state sponsored terrorism
and wickedness?
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja, the author is a political scientist with
interests in strategic studies and comparative cultures and
civilization of Muslims and the West, and author of several
publications including: Muslims and the West: Quest for Change and
Conflict Resolution and "Pakistan: Enigma of Change.")
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