By: Omar Chu (Surrey)
No One Is Illegal – Coast Salish Territories is calling on the CBSA to immediately release Dr. Mohammed Al-Humaikani from detention and halt his deportation. Dr. Al-Humaikani has been indefinitely imprisoned in Fraser Regional Correctional Centre and the Surrey Immigration Holding Centre since he arrived in Canada on November 21, 2019. Dr Al-Humaikani fled Yemen in 2016 traveling through Turkey, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and the USA. The five-year-long war in Yemen has left 100,000 dead, with more than 20 million people in Yemen needing humanitarian assistance.
“I am looking for anywhere where I can live safely with my wife and son,” Dr Al-Humaikani says. “I’ve faced so much discrimination and violence as an Arab who can’t speak Spanish, and I could not stay in the US because of the ban on Yemenis. Then, Canada put me in jail.”
Canada Border Services Agency is seeking to remove Dr Al-Humaikani to Mexico tomorrow, where COVID-19 deaths have hit a new daily high of 1,092 deaths. Dr Al-Humaikani has presented to CBSA proof from the Mexican government that he has renounced his Mexican permanent residence, meaning that CBSA would be deporting him to a country dealing with a skyrocketing pandemic and where he no longer has any immigration status.
Dr. Al-Humaikani has been unfairly detained already for six months and twenty-four days, since November 21, 2019, because Canada says they do not think he will appear for proceedings. He has been so frustrated with the conditions that he began a hunger strike.
“This is just another example of the twisted logic behind Canada’s immigration detention regime,” says Omar Chu, a member of No One Is Illegal. “Dr Al-Humaikani has been clear that he is searching for the right to safety, and Canada responds by imprisoning him. Meanwhile, they lifted the freeze on arm exports to Saudi Arabia, who are leading a coalition that continues to bomb Sana’a, his hometown.”
‘Hatred of Humans’!
By: Gulshan Aalani
Mankind all over the world still suffering under the calamity of deadly Corona Virus, yet at the same time hit with another calamity of sorrowful racist ‘hatred’ of other humans, ‘Racial’ violence killing so many Black people without a trial is most horrible institutional racism, and discrimination, but that is nothing new. Such hatred is centuries old, as if humans are hardwired with such hateful behavior.
The great philosopher Aristotle once wrote: “ Man is by nature a social animal”. (Ouch).
“And while his statement, at the time, had more to do with the benefits of a civilized society than how the human brain may be wired, decades of research in the neuroscience realm has largely supported his thoughts on the matter: The Society for Neuroscience, researchers from around the globe came together to discuss the latest insights into the social brain – and suggest that strong social connections may be facilitated by synchronous brain activity between two or more people. A convergence of research and discoveries in genetics, neuropsychology, and paleobiology, among other sciences, evolutionary psychology holds that although human beings today inhabit a thoroughly modern world of space exploration and virtual realities, they do so with the ingrained mentality of Stone Age hunter-gatherers: “You can take the person out of the Stone Age, evolutionary psychologists contend, but you can’t take the Stone Age out of the person”.
Apparently, we can all make up our own opinions but one true opinion comes from the Divine Authority, confirming HE created perfect mankind. Obviously, HE has not created such racist mankind.
According to the Holy Scripture, every human is born with the spirit of GOD, blown in the baby in the Womb.
If at all we believe humans are hardwired for doing evil then, in that case, we are blaming our Lord-Creator for creating such evil humans, who without a doubt are influenced and possessed by the evil spirit, rebellious transgressors rejecters of the Creator-GOD, lacking of sympathy, empathy and mercy, ignorant of facts that all the different color humans are created by One and only One Creator of the Universe, Lord of the Heavens and Earth, loves HIS creation of Black, Brown, White people: who didn’t pray to GOD to give them certain colors.
Therefore, we must stop stigmatizing and fighting certain colors, different tribes, Jews, Israelites and Muslims. According to the Sharia-Divine law established by Universal Messenger Muhammad SAWS: the elimination of superiority, discrimination and racism, the most remarkable law of ‘Oneness’ of GOD, and the concept of ‘One community’, reflects in the Muslim Salat/prayer where Black, White, and Brown stand shoulder to shoulder, bow and prostrate to their Lord-Creator, proving their true ID of Muslims/Believers- children of H. Adam (AS) surrounded by protective Angels.
Evidently, most remarkable pleasant picture of thousands of White supporters walking with the Black protestors denouncing racism and Police brutality, proving majority are the good decent people and only the minorities are hate-mongers, oppressors, looters, and rioters possessed by the emotional anger unknown of illegal/harram actions; should be taught of taking a decisive action, learn to speak up and not to destroy the properties of innocent ones, but to be the keepers of the humanity and their belongings as per the Divine law.‘Silence of good people empowers evil’. Although, hardly any Muslims, Sikhs, or Hindus to be seen with the protestors, out of fear to be branded as terrorists or either would be killed or confined in Prison, and the whole situation would turn around in opposite direction.
