How Pakistan fooled America and Islamists fooled Canada
As much as the liberal media is painting a picture of Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlin Coleman as victims who suffered years of torment, torture, and rape and murder of their child at the hands of the Taliban, there is something in that story that raises additional questions that do not add up.
Non-Muslim journalists today are so scared of being labelled racist, simply for asking the right question that it seems the most obvious loopholes in a story are avoided.
The first question to Boyle and Coleman should have been, “when did you convert to Islam?” and who had the honour of introducing both of them to take the ‘shahadah’ (oath of allegiance to Allah and Prophet Muhammad).
For me two things sprang out from the first two days of TV coverage following the so-called rescue of the family by the Pakistan Army after being asked by the Americans to do so.
The first was the overnight change in Boyle’s appearance. He had changed from his Afghan or Pashtun appearance into a moustacheless beard, which is a trademark of any political Islamist’s Salafi or Wahhabi bent of mind. (Of course, some orthodox, but non-political clerics of Islam also wear the same facial hairstyle.)
Then it was the change in accent by Boyle depending on his audience. When he first spoke in Pakistan, his accent was a mix of Arabic English and Pakistani terminology.
However, when speaking to the western media, Boyle shifted to a distinct American pronunciation and by the time he landed in Canada, his inflection had changed again to a more familiar Canadian nuance.
It wasn’t just his mastery of accents that created doubt about his version of events. His description of himself as a ‘pilgrim’ was missed by most who didn’t know most Muslim places of pilgrimage are in Arabia, Turkey, Iran and India, not in the valleys of Wardaq where he claims he went to a sense of mission — to help people, “to fix things,” as he told CBC’s Susan Armiston.
When Armiston very gently, almost as if speaking to a child, asked Boyle why he wanted to go to Afghanistan with a pregnant wife, his reply was to portray his move not as an error of judgment, but as an act of sacrifice to do “things that nobody else is doing, so I think I have to do it.”
What things? He didn’t elaborate. The fact that Afghanistan’s Wardaq province has been a Taliban dominated area since the time the jihadi bandits came to power seemed to have had no bearing on Boyle and Caitlin to move there.
So far Caitlin has demonstrated everything a Taliban-type Muslim woman would be expected to do. She switched from her black burqa to a stylized Egyptian Hijab and then kept her mouth shut, letting her husband do the talking for her.
No reporter asked Boyle if he had any connections in Afghanistan with Afghan Al-Qaeda leftovers linked to his once Egyptian father-in-law Ahmed Khadr or remnants of his former brother-in-law, the millionaire terrorist Omar Khadr.
Perhaps one day someone will dare to write about the wedding of Joshua Boyle and Zainab Khadr or how the two met and who conducted the wedding ceremony or even where it took place.
As for the story of the ‘rescue’ by Pakistan Army, the former head of the Afghan Intelligence Amrullah Saleh had this to write in the Indian Express, headlined:
Donald Trump is taken in by Pakistan’s deceitful acts
“These stunts by Pakistan have often worked in the past, thereby creating a Pavlovian pattern of success and reward from Washington and other capitals who have from time to time needed Pakistan in the geostrategic great game that has unfolded in South Asia since 1947.
“It is an open secret in Kabul that the US-Canadian couple and their family that was recently rescued had been kept in Waziristan for some time, in the exact same part of Pakistan where the Pakistan Army only recently declared Mission Accomplished of its Zarb-e-Azb operation and sent all the bad and unwanted terrorists to Afghanistan.
So when they were released as a result of a well-planned, well executed surgical operation in which only four tyres of a vehicle were punctured, we all laughed.”
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