How do you feel about Omar Khadr's Case?

Question

Do you think he is a terrorist who was aware of his actions. Or a kid who was forced by his family to go and fight with people, in a country he didnt know anything about and otherwise suffer serious consequences. Do you think he should be punished regardless?

Answer 1

A very sad messed up case....

This kid just never had a chance... when you have a family who ran a guesthouse in Canada for Canadians wanting to train with al-Qaeda.... a mother who in 2004 done a CBC interview told the reporter she was proud of their family's connection to al-Qaeda...to say this with a dead husband,son, and another son sitting in Guantanamo Bay for acts of terrorism...I mean what chance did this boy have....these people's were raising their sons to be terrorist....they  immersed them in this ideology...there wouldn't have been a need to force this child to take part... not when his family and peers were all involved.... and as far as him knowing what those explosives he was handling and landmines he was planting could and would cause..I am sure he did ....... but maybe he didn't understand it was wrong......like his mother still don't ....

I really don't know what should be done with this boy.... if they do release him ..the best thing they could do is to keep him away from his radical mother and family...if they send him home to this...he is liable to have his mother packing him off to Pakistan or Afghanistan to become the martyr she is so hoping for....if they are not going to separate him from this type of influence than it would probably be in everyone best interest to keep him locked up....because other wise.. there is a good chance he will continue where he left off and it is hard to tell how many he might harm.....

It really is a shame ....this woman is the one who needs to be sitting in a cold dark cell with a body full of shrapnel and the loss of sight in one eye for what she has done to her children.....not sitting comfortably in Canada phrasing al-Qaeda ...what a warped sick piece of ______....that is my opinion....