Islamist Refugees Littering Canada

"In those posts, there are many of them that I saw resemble clear support of the Islamic State."
"Furthermore, this support crossed the threshold where he's providing advice. He's providing material support. He's providing how-to information."
"When I come to the conclusion at the end, it's not just because I think it and I feel it. No, it's based on evidence. You gotta ask yourself, what's going on here?"
"[The use of social media — and particularly Facebook — is crucial to ISIS. It's important to distinguish between] couch jihadists [who] talk big [and real threats]."
"Are they going to cross the threshold? Or are they just basically a big mouth, so to speak."
RCMP Constable Tarek Mokdad, terrorism expert 

Othman Hamdan, who was acquitted of terrorism-related charges, shields his face from the media on his way into a bail hearing in Fort St. John after he was charged in 2016. (Brett Hyde/CBC)

"I was found innocent from all of these false accusations but I'm still being incarcerated. Please forgive me if I show some of these symptoms [trauma of prosecution], like agitation."
"While I was writing these [Facebook] pages I thought I was engaged in a political debate and I thought freedom of expression meant I didn’t have to explain every single word."
"I went from a nobody to a somebody who had thousands of followers [on social media, responding to his posts]."
"[In a May 2014 post]: #Islamic State. I am one of them. [At a May 2018 Immigration and Refugee Board hearing] It doesn’t mean I a member of ISIL."
"I was just reacting, angry at them [Facebook deleting his accounts over graphic violence postings] and saying], 'Look, you really didn’t have a reason to ban my account'." [And then a threat to Facebook] You’ll see us in your nightmares."
Othman Ayed Hamdan

Facing deportation, the Jordanian-born Palestinian, a refugee claimant and Canadian resident, claims to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, brought on by a barrage of official Canadian accusations, all of which are false, according to his account. A British Columbia Supreme Court judge acquitted him of terrorism-related charges last fall, but that hasn't stopped immigration authorities from re-arresting him, with a number of detention reviews all pointing to the fact that he poses a danger to the public.

Before a hearing of the Immigration and Refugee Board, this man was accused of calling for lone wolf attacks through a Facebook account. Authorities were alarmed and arrested him in 2015 and he has since been re-arrested, despite the acquittal. He noted he has been taking therapy from a psychologist for the past eight months to deal with his persecution complex caused by the initial accusations and arrest. This man, who moved to Canada in July 2002 from the United States where he was studying electrical engineering, explained his Facebook accounts was where he published poetry.

He gained thousands of followers, he explained, to debate religion and politics with, all responding to his criticism of Islamic clergy whom he sardonically invests with hypocrisy, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood and non-Muslim governments leaders. They were all representative of political satire, he insists. During his trial, eighty-five posts were questioned, the judge concluding they failed to represent terrorism. Given the evidence, this is a real head-spinner.

Police say Hamdan praised the action of radicalised Muslim convert Zehaf-Bibeau who shot and killed a Reservist soldier on honorary guard duty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa in 2014. Photo shows people just reacting to the shooting before para-medics arrive: Radio Canada

He placed blame on former Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the October 2014 lone-wolf attack that killed a military reservist standing guard at the National Cenotaph in 2014, and resulted in the attacker storming the House of Commons and a resulting shooting stand-off before the intruder was shot to death. "Arrogant" policies of the government had led to Canadian bloodshed, he claimed.

The funeral of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, killed in an October 2014 terrorist attack in Quebec. On social media, Othman Hamdan allegedly called Vincent's killer a "hero." THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Graham Hughes

In a March 2015 post he promoted "killing methods such as slitting their throats or shooting using a silencer and killing using poison and killing by choking", among other posts all describing methods for lone wolf attacks including the use of vehicles to shoot from, then drive off, or to commit vehicular homicide with. All of these posts evidently, grossly and unfairly misunderstood. His interpretation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms leading to his right to free expression.

Born in the UAE of Palestinian parents, this man has learned well the vulnerabilities of the Canadian system of justice and how to play to his audience, whether that of his fellow Islamists through Facebook, or Canadian authorities determined to rid the country of his terrorist-supporting and -aspiring presence. When he arrived in Canada he was granted refugee status. He doesn't have Canadian citizenship, and it should be a simple enough matter to escort him out of the country, but a clever lawyer and a sympathetic Liberal government under Justin Trudeau may just reverse that.

He is suing the government for wrongful accusations and arrest, and under Justin Trudeau he may just end up with millions to show for his hurt feelings and get to remain in Canada as a virtuous man who has been unjustly accused of actions he had no intention of committing, to become a symbol of wrongfully accused, a hero in the pantheon of similarly misunderstood Palestinians ensconced in Canada promoting 'resistance' to 'Islamophobia' and slandering the West.