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Orphaned Canadian girl, 5, finally on way to Canada from Syrian camp for suspected ISIL supporters
National Post ^ | Oct 05, 2020 | Adrian Humphreys

Posted on 10/06/2020 12:44:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway

The girl's mother and father probably moved to the area to join ISIL in Iraq and Syria, making her case politically delicate despite an obvious humanitarian imperative

A five-year-old Canadian orphan who was stuck in a refugee camp in Syria is finally on her way to Canada to join her uncle, a sudden deviation from Ottawa on repatriating Canadian families languishing in camps for suspected ISIL supporters.

As celebration for the girl known as Amira rang out from family and human rights groups, so too did an urgent question: What about the other 25 Canadian children stuck in Syrian camps — those with politically less palatable prospects because they still have their parents with a suspected ISIL past.

Early last year, when she was four, Amira was found walking alone on a road in war-torn northeastern Syria. Her parents and her siblings were killed, likely in an airstrike during the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS.

Although born in Syria, Amira is a Canadian citizen because both of her parents were Canadians. Her mother and father probably moved to the area to join ISIL in Iraq and Syria, making her case politically delicate despite an obvious humanitarian imperative.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: canada; isis; syria

1 posted on 10/06/2020 12:44:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Although born in Syria, Amira is a Canadian citizen because both of her parents were Canadians

Her parents were most likely Syrians with Canadian passports. The girl is an ethnic Syrian, born in Syria. She probably has more relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts) living in Syria than Canada.

Why is she being shipped to Canada?

2 posted on 10/06/2020 12:50:03 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

To fulfill Turd Dough’s quote on importing domestic terrorists ?


3 posted on 10/06/2020 12:57:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Where would a four-year-old’s political sympathies lie?


4 posted on 10/06/2020 1:29:59 AM PDT by Does so (Kyle RITTENHOUSE neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
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To: Does so

Where will they lay when she is 18 ?


5 posted on 10/06/2020 1:42:25 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Very pertinent question..
.the Elian Gonzalez case provides the most likely answer.


6 posted on 10/06/2020 1:54:10 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: nickcarraway

Islam has no loyalty to any nation - except ISLAM. She might have been born in Canada, but under Sharia is bound to Islam, not Canada. Bringing her back to Canada to be raised by the Islamic community ( & they will) can only install in her as is grows true hate for the nation that actually saved her from living in a decrepit belief system.

sad-—very -very sad indeed.


7 posted on 10/06/2020 2:30:55 AM PDT by Patriot_MP (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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...actually saved her from living in a decrepit belief system

Oh she'll still be raised in that decrepit belief system if her uncle's what I fear he is.

8 posted on 10/06/2020 2:36:57 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Bullish

agreed — she will — which is sad .... 4 yrs in Iraq taught me everything I need to know about Islam... I saw it all -— sometimes, the things I saw seemed were not real until the smell hit me in the face...


9 posted on 10/06/2020 2:44:43 AM PDT by Patriot_MP (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Patriot_MP

Smell has a a way of doing that. I still wake up with vivid taste and smell(s) of burnt flesh from 1972. It is as real as the day it happened. Fortunately it has faded some and only happens occasionally now.

Thank you for sharing your time, body and soul with the rest of us.


10 posted on 10/06/2020 2:52:33 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Does so

>>Where would a four-year-old’s political sympathies lie?

Look what became of anti-American Barack Hussein Obama


11 posted on 10/06/2020 2:53:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Patriot_MP

Islamics truly are barbarians in a lot of ways, and our country was importing them as quickly as possible under Obama. At some point, Obama should be made to pay dearly for all the suck he’s brought to this nation.


12 posted on 10/06/2020 2:57:00 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Patriot_MP; Bullish

Canada’s Ilhan Omar?


13 posted on 10/06/2020 3:12:28 AM PDT by Does so (Kyle RITTENHOUSE neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh look! A baby copperhead! I should take it in and keep it warm!

Ok, I know a human child is not a snake, but i have read about Russian and Eastern block orphans turning into monsters.


14 posted on 10/06/2020 3:17:56 AM PDT by waterhill (`)
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To: mad_as_he$$

...same to you Brother — it was you guys that paved the way for the rest of us later on... I appreciate that — we all do! Be safe!


15 posted on 10/06/2020 3:18:32 AM PDT by Patriot_MP (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Cowboy Bob

To enable chain migration?


16 posted on 10/06/2020 5:02:04 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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