"We are an Al Qaeda family." So spoke one of the Khadrs, a Muslim Canadian household whose near single-minded devotion to Osama bin Laden contains important lessons for the West."
Wife Maha Elsamnah took her then 14-year-old son Omar from Canada to Pakistan in 2001 and enrolled him for Al Qaeda training.
Daughter Zaynab, 23, was engaged to one terrorist and married, with Osama bin Laden himself present at the nuptials, a Qaeda member in 1999. Zaynab endorses the 9/11 atrocities and hopes her infant daughter will die fighting Americans.
Son Abdullah, 22, is a Qaeda fugitive constantly on the move to elude capture. Canadian intelligence states he ran a Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan during the Taliban period, something Abdullah denies.
Son Omar, 17, stands accused of hurling a grenade in July 2002, killing an American medic in Afghanistan. Omar lost sight in one eye in the fighting and is now a U.S. detainee in Guantánamo.
Son Abdul Karim, 14, half-paralyzed by wounds sustained in the October 2003 shoot-out that left his father dead, is presently prisoner in a Pakistani hospital.
How do the Canadians explain the presence of Ahmet Resseni, arrested at the US border in December 1999 while driving a carload of explosives to attack LA airport? Resseni was An Algerian of an Arab-Afghan background who was in contact with Al Qaeda cells in Bosnia and Germany. Though considered a dangerous individual in Europe, he somehow managed to enter Canada. And how about Human Concern International, headquartered in Ottowa, Canada, which was supplying aid and comfort to Islamists in Afghanistan, and then using the name Mercy International continued to support Islamists by funding Algerian and Egyptian radicals? And what of the Benevolence International Fund of Canada, which was in bed with AQ, and the phoney Bosnian-Canadian Relief Association of Toronto?
Finally, it must be noted that Abudhamid Abdulrahim, AKA, Abu Obeida, a special confidante of OBLaden, set up the first radical Islamist charity in the West, Human Concern International, and he did so in Canada in 1982. Simply put, it is time for Canadians to quit playing the game of "holier than thou."