He turns 70 this year. Keep him in Canada where he’ll die an early death either by euthanasia or waiting on socialized medicine.
Ah, trying to create a new Nelson Mandela, eh?
despite the fact that he must have been convicted of something extremely serious to warrant being given life in prison. And the Citizen is not alone.Hassan Diab is a darling of the Leftist political and media establishment, despite the fact that the crime he was convicted of committing was the bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris during Shabbat services on Oct. 3, 198
As the Ottawa citizen reports,
Looking for more of examples typical PC liberal sympathy, such as the Boston Globe's treatment of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, I found that it appears that his conviction warrants doubt: "Evidence presented during the extradition hearing was circumstantial, relying heavily on a handwriting analysis that linked Diab to words the suspected bomber penned on a hotel registration card."
and
The attack was initially cited as a Neo-Nazi hate crime but was eventually linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group since 1997, that has been known to carry out many attacks against the Jewish state of Israel, according to NYT. After nearly two decades, police identified Diab, who had been teaching as a sociology professor in Canada, as a suspect using “police sketches,” “handwriting analysis” and passport stamps. - https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/21/paris-synagogue-bombing-jewish/
and
And It did not seem to matter to Canadian and French authorities that he was in Beirut at the time of the bombing, that his fingerprints did not match the proffered evidence and that the handwriting analysis was flawed. There was no personal history that could connect Hassan Diab in any way with this deed, and Canadian judge Maranger said that the evidence was “very problematic”, “convoluted”, “very confusing”, and “with conclusions that are suspect” - https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-ordeal-of-hassan-diab
While the Left treats Islam with kid gloves, since they both count the God of the Bible as its enemy, which He is, and the Left would hardly be running sympathetic headlines for a conservative Christian who was convicted on such circumstantial evidence, yet we cannot sanction such weak evidence as this, which would put someone in prison for life. In the Bible, 2 or 3 eyewitnesses are required for capital crime convictions, and with false witnesses receiving the penalty that their lying received.