Kamloops federal NDP candidate speaks about anti-terror bill
KAMLOOPS – Kamloops federal NDP candidate, lawyer Bill Sundhu, told the audience at the Ayesha Mosque the proposed anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51, will allow the federal government to usurp the charter of rights and freedoms in the name of anti-terror actions.
Sundhu was invited by the Islamic Association of Kamloops to speak to the congregation at the mosque in the Knutsford-area on Friday, May 1 about human rights — particularly human rights under the proposed legislation.
Sundhu said human rights belong to every human being, they are the foundations of peace and justice, but in the same breath he spoke of injustice, listing armed insurrections around the world. “Particularly minorities have suffered the most, particularly Muslims; we know that," he said.
“The national lawyers association that I belong to, 37,000 lawyers in Canada, university and all law professors, human rights organizations say this is a very bad and dangerous bill.”
Sundhu used the example of Maher Arar, and how Bill C-51 gives law enforcement the right to detain and send Canadian citizens to hostile countries. Arar's wife, Dr. Monia Mazigh, will be speaking at Thompson Rivers University later this month.
He said it was because of issues like these that he felt the need to run for office.
“(Terrorism is) a meaningless word. Crimes are crimes.”
Sundu said the other political parties use the “T” word, or terrorism, loosely, adding there is not one group — especially not one religion — which holds dominion over this word.
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“Yes but”? You agree but also disagree? Same figure of speech as in “I’m not racist,… but…””Muslims are the majority in almost 60 nations”. Are they too present and that, for some reason is not right? There are around 1.6 Billion Muslims in the world and about 2.2 Billion Christians.”that is where most of the ongoing violence is occurring”. Is that a coincidence or are you suggesting that there is a causality link? The correlation wouldn’t be with the substantial poverty in many of these countries or the very profitable interference by wealthier nations?”Sharia laws are being spread through violence in the middle east, north Africa and south east Asia. ” A real contamination, isn’t it?What is Sharia Law? Could you elaborate? For the little I know, there are noticeable differences between the legislative reality in Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Morocco.”Even the most secular of Islamic dominated states such as Turkey and Indonesia are becoming more intolerant of other faiths and beliefs”. You are better informed than I am. We came back just with wonderful memories from our (my wife and I) trip in Morocco. In one of the fortified old cities (that means we were surrounded by big walls), Essaouira, we saw Muslims, Jews, Christians and many tourists (we assume that some of them were agnostic or atheist) co-existing harmoniously as good neighbours.But then again, you talk about “intolerance” and I won’t argue with you on that as you appear to be very well versed on that topic.
Until the world-wide, Muslim-initiated terrorist threat is eliminated, I support C-51. No comment on Mr. Bill Sundhu, who I’m sure is a pleasant fellow at a picnic.