Muslim Professor in Canada Convicted of Paris Synagogue Bombing

43 years after the bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris during Shabbat services on October 3, 1980 that killed four people and injured 46 others, a university lecturer in Canada, Hassan Diab, has been convicted of the crime. Diab didn’t attend the trial and scorned the proceedings, and powerful people in Canada, up to and including Justin Trudeau, have spoken out in his defense. Nonetheless, he has been sentenced in Paris to life in prison, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Canada may fight any attempt to extradite him. The case of Hassan Diab is a parable of our times.

Canada’s state-funded CBC reported Friday that after the verdict, Diab “expressed disappointment and called his situation ‘Kafkaesque.’” He added: “We hoped reason would prevail,” and said that it was “still devastating to know they pursued that biased road which led to the unfortunate decision.”

Diab’s lawyer, Donald Bayne, agreed, and decried the unfairness of the proceedings in Paris: “The evidence shows he’s innocent and yet they’ve convicted him. It’s a political result. It’s a wrongful conviction.” Maybe. Or is the rush to defend him what is politically motivated? Randall Garrison, whom CBC identifies as a New Democratic Party “justice critic,” declared: “The horrible conditions Dr. Diab suffered over flimsy and discredited evidence violated his rights and poisoned the process. Given that no justice has been served, New Democrats are demanding the government block any attempts by France to extradite Dr. Diab.” Amnesty International decried the case against Diab as “baseless and flawed.”

However, Yonathan Arfi of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) did not think that an injustice had been done. He said: “After 43 years of judicial wandering, justice is finally served for this deadly antisemitic attack. Everything must now be done to enforce the international arrest warrant. CRIF calls on Canada to cooperate with French justice.”

Trudeau, however, reacted cautiously, saying: “We will look carefully at next steps, at what the French government chooses to do, at what French tribunals choose to do. But we will always be there to stand up for Canadians and their rights.”

Well, Justin, that’s debatable. Diab is accused of having carried out the bombing as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terror group dedicated to the destruction of Israel. He was arrested In 2008 and extradited to France in 2014, but was released in 2018 after judges stated that there was insufficient evidence to try him. However, many in France clearly believed there was plenty of evidence: CBC notes that “Diab’s release was opposed by more than 20 civil society groups in France — including victims of terrorism groups and pro-Israel organizations.” In 2021, France’s top court ordered a trial and said that if Diab didn’t show up, he would be tried in absentia. And now he has been convicted.

Diab “pointed to remarks Trudeau made in 2018 about his case, when the prime minister said what happened to Diab should not have happened and should never happen again,” and “called on Trudeau to honour those words.” He very well may do so. But the old adage that you can tell a lot about a man by his enemies also works in reverse: you can tell a lot about a man by his friends. Amnesty International has falsely accused Israel of apartheid. Justin Trudeau sends millions to the “Palestinians,” which only ends up financing the jihad against Israel. He has also claimed that Islamic law is compatible with democracy. He shares fashionable Leftist views of “Palestinian” victimhood, while ignoring, like other Leftist leaders in the West, the frequent hateful and even genocidal statements from “Palestinian” leaders.

A hypothetical: If Hassan Diab were an Israeli who had been accused of bombing a mosque in France, and had then become a professor in Canada, only to be convicted years later while maintaining his innocence, would Justin Trudeau be fighting for him? Would the government of Canada be hinting that it would fight his extradition to France? It’s virtually inconceivable that Trudeau would have done anything in such a case other than condemn the perpetrator and commend the workings of justice.

Hassan Diab has the advantage of having been part of a movement that is favored on the political Left. That means that even after his conviction, the media accounts are all full of the alleged evidence of his innocence, without any attention paid to the question of why the Paris court was unimpressed by this evidence. If he had, conversely, been a “right-wing extremist” accused of doing an equivalent act, he would be excoriated everywhere and his conviction hailed as a triumph of justice. That’s the state of the “free world,” April 2023.

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Zeus

11 months ago

This is one way for the ruling families to pretend they are not operating as a coalition.
They all knew Islam was a snake. They all know Islam is a snake.

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Talkback 63

11 months ago

Reply to  Zeus

Spot on , they even attack those of them who are for peace and left their country to get away from them only for the islamists to be worse because our countries let them get away with open hatred towards Jews and Christians and others !!! Too much power as their goal is to break down democracy to insert their sharia laws

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ed

11 months ago

Wow…..what a surprise…./s

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garry pollack

11 months ago

who remembers— Omar (Ahmed Said) Khadr July 2017… Trudeau likes Palestinians who murder—Looking forward 2 the day he is tried & hung….Debasing Jews along w/pedophilia is very much the “thing” w/left leftists…

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Talkback 63

11 months ago

They had better honour the extradition of the terrorist and leftists will always protect the guilty unless it was a Jewish person committing this act . Muslims are the masters of the leftist slaves and Trudeau is one , a convert who openly supports arrest of Christians and an opponent against Christians at any opportunity. It’s high time laws were made that do not give Muslims immunity from prosecution for crimes against humanity which is basically against any non muslim and it needs openly to show Qurans texts clearly rascist inhuman towards all non muslims and peaceful muslims deemed traitors which prove outright there is NO COMPATIBILITY WITH DEMOCRACY IN ISLAM as only Islam rules ABOVE every other religion and creed !!! This is why they don’t want texts known to the public as it shows how they don’t respect life of any other person religious or not . We need new world laws that protect us from them now as many people are still slaves in the Islamic world and deem people of colour SLAVES and they have a word that describes black people in this way in Arabic!!! Unless laws are in place that stops this protected status based on their religion as being an attack on their religion when they are proven guilty of crimes, muslims will keep getting into places of power using diversity like Scottish leader who tried to suggest a law against people speaking against Islam in their own homes !! Too much power given to muslims who are laughing at the weakness of the west and we are seeing the burden they are upon our weak governments as the majority do not work because they expect the dhimmy to pay for them and like in France it’s unsustainable as not enough workers to pay the social bill . Years ago Arabs heeded the call , the hiraj to take over the west as they’ve turned their countries into desert hellholes and terrorist acts are a constant way to put fear into our governments who pacify them by protecting them over us !!

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Dr. Howard

11 months ago

Things all readers need to know about Islam: 1. Takiyyah means lying to infidels. Jews and Christians believe in oaths and vows that are the truth not just to each other but to everyone. Islam is like Communism that way. You can’t trust what they say. 2. The Land of Peace is a land Islam dominates. Every other land is termed The Land of War because that is how non-Islamic lands are classified. 3. Dhimmi is the term for non-Muslims in Muslim lands. Dhimmis must pay money and are 2nd class citizens. 4. Jihad is a commandment to conquer non-Muslim lands, subdue the infidels and tax them. If the infidel doesn’t agree to these conditions it’s definitely okay, no problem to kill them for refusing.

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Stephen Honig

11 months ago

They should first cut his balls off and then put him on trial.

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VTS

11 months ago

Hmm. Justin does not want justice? Why am I not surprised?

Last edited 11 months ago by VTS

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