A high-profile Canadian member of the so-called Islamic State has been caught while attempting to return to Canada…he is being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
Muhammad Ali, formerly Abu Turaab Al-Kanadi, served as a sniper and “used social media to encourage others to join ISIS and conduct terrorist attacks.”
But how will Canada process him? As a war criminal, as it should?
There is no guarantee Ali would face arrest upon his return.
News emerging about Muhammad is unnerving: Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of Foreign Affairs for the Democratic Self-Administration of North Syria, says that 10 Canadians are being held in Syria, but there has been no ongoing cooperation from the Canadian government:
Omar said Kurdish officials met months ago with Canadian diplomats in northern Iraq…there was some good steps…and then suddenly the Canadian government stopped this process and we don’t know why.
Canadians should be outraged and demanding answers from a Prime Minister who thinks it is “Islamophobic” to ask questions about public safety. Canada is governed by a leader who has welcomed anyone and everyone. Trudeau has declared that Islamic State jihadis could be a “powerful voice” for Canada. He also paid Canada’s al Qaeda poster boy Omar Khadr 10.5 million dollars and an unwarranted apology for supposedly being roughed up in Guantanamo, despite the fact that Khadr murdered one America soldier and blinded another.
Right after the Liberal government won the 2015 election, it scrapped legislation of the former Conservative government that would have stripped citizenship from “convicted terrorists who also have citizenship in another country. If you commit high treason or acts of war against Canada, the thinking goes, you’ve forfeited your right to be Canadian.” The scrapping of this law
“restored citizenship to the ringleader of the al-Qaida-inspired Toronto 18 terrorist cell — a group of men who worked towards a plot to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange, shoot up the CBC headquarters and storm Parliament Hill in Ottawa. They wanted to behead then-prime minister Stephen Harper.” According to Justin Trudeau, it does not matter if you are a law-abiding, peaceful Canadian, because in his view “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” even if one wants to commit mass murder against the public. That would include Muhammad Ali, who carries the same dangerous mindset as other Islamic State jihadists. Ali has spoken about:
playing soccer with severed heads, wrote that homosexuals “should be killed” and posted ISIS’s incitement lines, such as: “Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian of military.” Following the deadly October 2014 terror attacks that killed Canadian soldiers in Quebec and Ottawa, he wrote, “First Ottawa, then Quebec. Strike them, just as they strike your brothers and sisters.”
“Exclusive: Canadian member of Islamic State caught, but RCMP struggle to lay charges against ISIS fighters”, by Stewart Bell, Global News, October 8, 2018:
In an exclusive Global News series, Stewart Bell reports from Iraq and Syria on the aftermath of the war against the so-called Islamic State. In Part 1, Global looks at Canadian ISIS members who are being held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and the challenges Justin Trudeau’s government faces with Canadian members of the terror group.
A high-profile Canadian member of the so-called Islamic State has been caught while attempting to return to Canada, Global News has confirmed.
Muhammad Ali, 28, who left Toronto in 2014 to join ISIS, was captured by Kurdish forces as he tried to flee from Syria to Turkey.
Global News interviewed Ali at a makeshift prison where he is being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, the military alliance that controls northeast Syria.
The former Ryerson University student, who went by Abu Turaab Al-Kanadi, was taken into custody four months ago in Ras al-Ayn, on the Turkish border.
At the time, he was with his Canadian wife, former Vancouver resident Rida Jabbar, and their two children, both born in Syria.
His family is being detained at a camp not far from the prison where Kurdish, American and British officials have been interrogating Ali.
His capture is significant because, aside from serving as a sniper, Ali used social media to encourage others to join ISIS and conduct terrorist attacks.
Ali’s case has placed the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a difficult position. Kurdish officials want to hand Ali and a dozen other Canadians over to Ottawa.
However, with the RCMP struggling to bring charges against Canadians who have taken part in overseas terror groups, there is no guarantee Ali would face arrest upon his return.
Kurdish authorities said they were holding almost 900 foreign ISIS fighters, as well as 500 wives and more than 1,000 children, and want governments to take back those that are their citizens.
Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of Foreign Affairs for the Democratic Self-Administration of North Syria told Global News in an interview in Qamlishi, a city in northern Syria that 10 Canadians are currently being held……