Sunday, July 19, 2009

Suaad Mohamud Haji has been unable to return to her Toronto home since mid-May after Kenyan airport officials said she didn't look like her four-year-old passport picture.

Despite having other pieces of Canadian photo ID and offering up her fingerprints, the 31-year-old mother was stripped of her passport by Canadian officials and charged with identity fraud by Kenyan police.

"Just like in Canada, if you misrepresent your identity, that's a criminal charge," her lawyer Raoul Boulakia told The Canadian Press on Sunday.

"So what the Canadian government told the Kenyan government is, 'This lady is not the lady in the passport. She is lying. This isn't her."'

He wants Mohamud to be issued an emergency passport and flown home at government expense.

The situation is urgent because the Somali-born Mohamud has a court date this Friday in Kenya and could face deportation to her lawless native land.

The Federal Court application also seeks a declaration that the government "acted in bad faith by arbitrarily denying the applicant's citizenship, and by delaying resolution of confirming her citizenship."

Boulakia said the woman has a 12-year-old son, a job, and dozens of friends in Toronto who can vouch for her identity. He said he's seen many photos of Mohamud and her appearance has indeed been altered by a dramatic change in weight.

He wants to know why the federal government has not provided an answer on whether Mohamud's fingerprints match those she provided when she applied for Canadian citizenship.

An official with the Canadian Border Services Agency said Sunday she could not comment on the particulars of Mohamud's case due to privacy laws.

But Patrizia Giolti noted that finger prints are only requested on citizenship applications if there's some question of criminality.

"Fingerprints are then destroyed once a citizenship application is closed," Giolti said by email.

"Also fingerprints are not kept as a biometric or as a biodata, they are simply collected to run against criminal databases. So we would not be able to use fingerprints collected during a citizenship application to confirm identity."

Source: Canadian Press, July 19, 2009

ghariibstranger @ 7/21/2009 9:02 AM EST  MOMO519; you stop the vialation against Allah and your wicked lies about the deen of Allah Allah said [if you do not know ask the poeple with knowledge]come back to you deen Allah is oft mercyfull to his slaves.

momo519 @ 7/21/2009 6:22 AM EST   Stop the violance against the Muslims.

ghariibstranger @ 7/21/2009 5:10 AM EST  MOMO519 I see you do not believe in Jihad so be it and stay been the Suufi you are atleast the Suufi's here are fighting but you are worst Suufi with no knowledge but Allah is mercyfull to his slaves come back to your deen.

momo519 @ 7/20/2009 9:29 PM EST   Stranger, You are stranger to Islam. If only you could understand what Allah is saying here you would love to meet Allah. But you are of those with no knowledge. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that violance, death, and war against your fellow Mulsims is not a JIHAD. You and your fellow murtads declared war against fellow Somalis led by Sheikh Sharif, an Islamic man who read the Ashahado. And you have the guts to tell me that Allah will reward me to participate a war against fellow Somali Muslims!!! How stup*d and arr*gant you are!!!

ghariibstranger @ 7/20/2009 7:27 PM EST  MOMO519 You are the most wickeds person I have come across you are so sturban you are deep in to your jaahil way of life,the life that's deep in a ocean covered leyor upon leyor darkness upon darkness but know that Allah says [ALLAH KNOWS THE FINEST MISTERY] if only you could understand what Allah is saying here you would love to meet Allah. But you are of those with no knowledge.