Yet, how to explain that some jihadis hate Canada. The country that participates in the good war of Afghanistan but not the bad war of Iraq. The country that lacks much of a military. The country that focuses on peacekeeping. The country with socialized medicine and a sizable French-speaking minority. How can you get much better than that?
Yet Canada is hated (via NRO) by the wives of the terrorists recently arrested in Canada for plotting various attacks:
Wives of four of the central figures arrested last month were among the most active on the website, sharing, among other things, their passion for holy war, disgust at virtually every aspect of non-Muslim society and a hatred of Canada. The posts were made on personal blogs belonging to both Mr. Amara and Ms. Farooq, as well as a semi-private forum founded by Ms. Farooq where dozens of teens in the Meadowvale Secondary School area chatted. The vast majority of the posts were made over a period of about 20 months, mostly in 2004, and the majority of those were made by the group's female members.
The hate America. They hate Spain. They hate Britain. They hate Australia.
And they hate Canada.
What, pray tell, could we possibly do to be less offensive in the liberal view of foreign policy and domestic programs than Canada? Yet to the enemy, Canada is just as bad. We all look alike.
Perhaps they hate us for who we are and not what we do after all. Eh?
