We had a case here where a Syrian-born Canadian citizen named Maher Arar was passing through the US on his way home to Ottawa (where he programs computers for a living, incidentally -- is there a correlation between US "security overreactions" [cough] and Muslim IT geeks?), was hauled off into custody, held for a while incommunicado, then slapped on a plane and deported to Syria, where he sat in a Syrian prison (shudder) and was tortured for six months. Thanks to his wife (Monia Mazigh), who made the Canadian government actually care about this, he got out and is back home.
His wife, incidentally, was the NDP candidate for the riding of Ottawa South. I hope she stays in politics, because she's tremendously effective (her almost single-handed efforts got a Royal Commission started on the Arar Affair) and she's a hijab-wearing social liberal with a web page in four languages -- exactly the kind of person I'd like to see more of in Canadian politics!
There was another case of a Muslim IT geek working for Intel (IIRC) who got the terrorist rap falsely put on him, too...uh, Mike Hawash. Please tell me I'm not onto something here.
Happening everywhere...
His wife, incidentally, was the NDP candidate for the riding of Ottawa South. I hope she stays in politics, because she's tremendously effective (her almost single-handed efforts got a Royal Commission started on the Arar Affair) and she's a hijab-wearing social liberal with a web page in four languages -- exactly the kind of person I'd like to see more of in Canadian politics!
There was another case of a Muslim IT geek working for Intel (IIRC) who got the terrorist rap falsely put on him, too...uh, Mike Hawash. Please tell me I'm not onto something here.