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Dr Tariq Abdelhaleem: The Visit – A Weekly Experience That Never Gets Easier (2007)

Dr. Tariq Abdelhaleem is the father of Shareef Abdelhaleem who is currently serving a life sentence for his alleged participation in a plot to bomb key sites in Canada as part of the ‘Toronto 18′. Dr Abdelhaleem is a civil engineer by training and a lecturer at the Dar Al-Arqam Islamic Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. Until recently, the 67-year-old worked on a contract basis for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the Crown corporation that oversees the country’s nuclear reactors. The following was written 12 December of 2007:

Saturday, for most people, is a great day. They sleep in and start the day after a late breakfast, and then plan for the rest of it. They look forward to: shopping, visiting, eating out – all kinds of nice moments to look forward to. Except for me, it isn’t such a great day. It is, in the matter of fact, a day of pain and desperation. It is the day of my scheduled visit to my son, Shareef, in Maplehurst Correctional Center; where he is detained awaiting the trial.

I go to sleep the day before with the sad expectations of the next day. I wake up thinking of the visit. I didn’t see my son for a week. I want to make sure he is still holding himself together, and that he did not collapse or get a nervous breakdown.

I schedule my day around this event. No matter what other matters I have to attend to, it is paramount to break it at exactly 1:15pm and head to Milton.  Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on December 18, 2011 in Collateral Damage

 

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Action Alert: Administrative Abuse in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec (SHU)

Perpetual Solitary Confinement & Administrative Misconduct in Special Handling Unit (Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines,Quebec)

Five years since their arrest Fahim Ahmad, Momin Khawaja, Said Namouh, Shareef Abdelhaleem and Zakaria Amara still suffer discriminatory and unwarranted penalization in the custody of the Correctional Service of Canada.

Denied the basic human privileges afforded to all inmates, continued harassment and antagonisation by prison staff, and ongoing punishment without provocation are undeniable indications that this abuse is religiously and racially motivated.  Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on October 4, 2011 in Campaigns

 

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Cheryfa Jamal: Her & Her Family, Victims of Canadian ‘War on Terror’

On the third and second of June, 2006, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service carried out a series of brutal raids in eastern Canada arresting 17 people, five of whom are teenagers, in what was pitched and swallowed by the media as a Canada’s “home grown” Islamic terrorist cell.  Quickly dubbed the “Toronto Seventeen”, authorities alleged that this group of “Muslim extremists” were planning to blow up Canada’s Parliament, the CSIS’s headquarters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and even planned to storm the Canadian parliament and behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper and that by only a stroke of luck, Canada’s security apparatus was able to foil the so-called plot.

The long and the short of the government’s case against Qayyum Jamal, Steven Chand, Shareef Abdelhaleem, Yasim Mohamed, Jahmaal James, Mohammed Dirie, Fahim Ahmad, Asad Ansari, Ahmad Ghany, Zakaria Amara, Amin Durrani, Saad Khalid and five other young offenders who can not be named was, at the time, said to be based on the allegation that Zakaria Amara, age 20, had allegedly ordered three metric tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to be used to manufacture a bomb capable of carrying out an attack on the scale of the Oklahoma bombing.

From the start, it read like a page out of RCMP Special Forces handbook presented by Canada’s leak-dripping Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).  But soon after, the story quickly changed when it was learned that the RCMP used an informant to carry out a “sting” operation and had replaced the real ammonium nitrate fertilizer with “a harmless substance”  No ammonium nitrate, no crime right?  Not so. Regardless of the brutality of the raids, the discrimination and racism, the guilty-before-trial press made hay, the Canadian government is proceeding with the case and for the most part, Canadians breathed easier knowing that the authorities had thwarted an “Al-Qaeda styled” attack just in the nick of time. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on August 4, 2011 in Collateral Damage

 

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