Posted on 11/22/2017 3:43:46 AM PST by jerod
Two Muslim men from Calgary say they were willing to assist Canada's security agents with terror-related inquiries until CSIS started hounding them and shared their personal information with foreign states.
Speaking exclusively to CBC News, Yacine Meziane and Abderrahmane Ghanem say CSIS and the RCMP wrongfully lumped them in with a cluster of Calgary jihadis who left to fight with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
They say were subjected to surveillance that quickly turned into harassment and eventually escalated into a full-scale disruption of their lives at home and abroad.
"My life was ripped apart," Meziane said.
Neither CSIS nor the RCMP would comment about individual cases.
However, in a lengthy response to CBC News, CSIS said that "care is taken to ensure an appropriate balance between the degree of intrusiveness of an investigation and the rights and freedoms of those being investigated."
That's not how Ghanem or Meziane see it. They're demanding that Canadian intelligence agencies help clear their names and allow them to lead normal lives.
CBC News has heard from half a dozen other Calgary Muslim men who say they've been similarly hounded by CSIS but are too afraid to speak openly for fear of backlash from security agencies.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims says it has received 90 such complaints, in writing, in the past four years, and that number is probably low "because people do not know they can or should report these [incidents]," said Huda Alsarraj, NCCM's human rights officer.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), which provides parliamentary oversight of CSIS, says it has received a similar number over the same period of time, but the agency does not keep track of the ethnicity of complainants.
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Not that I blame them... If somebody were offering me $10 million, I'd be getting in line pretty quick.
Then get out of Canada, but don’t go to the USA. Go to any muzzy country and never come back.
Wrongly targeted? You mean they aren’t muslim?
“”They’re demanding that Canadian intelligence agencies help clear their names and allow them to lead normal lives.””
With names like theirs, I would say they weren’t native to Canada. They didn’t have to leave whatever hole they came from....They will do all this spouting off at the same time as making plans and stockpiling explosives to do their jobs. The jobs they were sent there to do. And the authorities have to be PC and believe they are making their lives difficult for them. Poor babies!
The presence of any living adult male Muslim is a clear and present danger. If you can’t deport of kill them, you have to watch them.
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