Suaad Hagi Mohamud – Or Is It?
Back on May 21 of this year, Somali born Canadian Suaad Hagi Mohamud was detained at the Nairobi airport after officials claimed she didn’t look like the picture on her passport. She was thrown in a Kenyan jail for 8 days, then released and sent back to Canada after DNA tests proved she was the same person on her passport.
During the time of her detention, the Canadian media and various left wing political groups made Suaad Hagi Mohamud a celebrity, espousing that the Conservative government wasn’t protecting its own citizens, even going as far to claim that the Conservative government doesn’t like non-white people.
Let’s hear what Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty had to say back a few months ago:
“Something is fundamentally wrong when we can’t count on the Canadian government to stand up for Canadians – I’m not sure I can put it any more directly than that,” he said.
Canadians expect their government to help them when they’re in distress, no matter where they are, McGuinty added.
“That didn’t happen in this particular circumstance, and there’s no excuse for that.”
Christopher Hume of the Toronto CZtar was even more over-the-top than McGuinty:
According to the administration’s new meaning of Canadian citizenship, the main qualification is not residence, place of birth, oath of allegiance or passport – it’s the colour of your skin.
And in Canada today, God help you if you’re not white, because the federal government sure won’t. Indeed, that government creates these problems in the first place.
This isn’t just another political scandal; this is cause for deep national shame. This smacks not just of prejudice, but of apartheid.
All those on the left seemed to agree: Canada is a racist shithole.
Unfortunately, there are a few facts released yesterday that got in the way of lefty *truth*:
The federal government filed court documents Monday claiming a Canadian woman, stranded in Kenya for three months and now suing Ottawa, gave contradictory statements that led consular officials to believe she was an impostor and not the proper owner of the passport in her possession.
The government says Suaad Hagi Mohamud gave wrong answers and contradictory information in three separate interviews with Canadian officials in Kenya last May, according to court documents filed in Federal Court. The documents were filed in response to a motion for costs by Mohamud’s lawyer Raoul Boulakia.
In one interview with the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi, Mohamud indicated she was a student at Humber College and was studying fashion design. But in another interview, she denied it and said she was only thinking about going to school at Seneca College.
The documents allege she lacked knowledge about Toronto, where she had lived for 10 years. She couldn’t name Lake Ontario, and even though she took public transit to work, she had trouble explaining the acronym TTC, the Toronto Transit Commission.
She didn’t know that the acronym for her Toronto workplace, ATS, stood for Andlauer Transportation Services. She also couldn’t name the current or previous prime minister and was unable to describe in any detail how she obtained her driver’s licence.
The documents also allege she gave a wrong date for her son’s birthday and couldn’t provide details on the circumstances or place of his birth.
Mohamud also provided an incorrect date of her marriage, saying first that she was married in 2006, which contradicted the July 4, 1996, date on her immigration application. Mohamud divorced her first husband and married a Kenyan man in December 2007.
The Canadian High Commission officer who conducted the interviews said Mohamud looked different from her passport photo, that she was six or seven centimetres shorter than her driver’s licence stated and that her signature wasn’t the same.
By the end of the second hour-long interview, the officer suspected he was talking to an impostor, possibly Mohamud’s younger sister, according to the documents.
What Hume and his weasly ilk said is so typical of the race-baiters on the left. They took the evidence of some lying jackal, ignored the evidence of our own consulate, spun the story to fit their narrative, flamed racial tensions, accused the Conservative government of being racist, and then slurred our entire country.
Evidence be damned, if there’s even the slightest chance that the left can depict Conservatives in a negative light, or as Hume says, “political scandal”, they are right there like non-white on rice.
This whole sorry affair also speaks volumes about how well our multi-culti country of Canada is progressing. A Somalian woman comes to Canada 10 years ago for what I would believe to be a better life. After 10 years you would think a person would be ingrained enough into our society to be able to name our Prime Minister, or name that gigantic lake (Lake Ontario for our non-Canadian readers) she’s been living on the SHORES of for the past 10 years. Hell, even if she had been able to name the transit system she rode on every day, or even the name of the company she works for. She knew NONE of that, but when it came to the Charter of Rights, she seems to have memorized every last detail, sentence, comma and period.
Christopher Hume mentioned this was a national disgrace, and he’s right in a way, but it wasn’t the treatment this woman received by our government that’s a national disgrace, it’s Hume’s piss poor reporting, and our joke multi-culti society.
Christopher Hume is the Toronto CZtars *Urban Design Critic* (whatever the hell that means). Hume should stick to the subjects he knows and that others could care less about, and leave the actual serious stories and events to the adults. Hume is an emotionally driven little peon that gets flustered too easily, and he has no place in grown up discussions. I would say Hume is an embarrassment to the Toronto CZtar, but truth be told the CZtar is already such a major embarrassment that even Hume couldn’t bring it down any further.
This woman doesn’t deserve a dime. We should be suing HER. Think of how much money she has cost the taxpayers of Canada — lawyer fees, consulate workers’ wages, police wages, plane ticket back to Canada, Chris Hume’s career, etc.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Well, in her/his/its Canadian ID, she (or whoever, whatever) sports a burka? hijab? headsock?, but in her/his/its non-Canadian ID, she/he/it don’t.
Obviously, Canadians are racist scum, and more taxes and less employment are needed.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
So, what do we know? She has a sister, DNA tests established it was Suaad Hagi Mohamud in Kenya (which would seem to indicate at least her sister or another close relative is in Canada to test against), her real height is different than what her drivers license says and she can’t remember how she got that license. It seems likely to me that someone else did her drivers test, probably her sister. Couldn’t any law enforcement be arsed to investigate that?
October 1st, 2009 at 3:06 am
There may also be the possibility that her interviewer is not on the up-and-up. She isn’t the only Canadian to be stranded in Kenya by our High Commission there. They also decided that Abdihakim Mohamed didn’t look like his photo and wasn’t autistic.
And like Rob says, seems obvious somebody else did Ms. Mohamud’s driver’s license.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am
Shouldn’t this be filed under “Piece of Work or POS?”
October 1st, 2009 at 6:35 am
This Vancouver Sun article has even better information, such as:
“She was unable to describe in any detail how she obtained her Ontario driver’s licence…”
“Mohamud also provided the wrong birth date for her son and lacked details on the circumstances or place of his birth…”
“She could not explain what she did for her employer, ATS…”
Even assuming the best and this person was not an impostor but just a buffoon who went to pieces during the interview, this is a remarkable string of stuff to not be able to answer.
If I knew my answers would determine my right (or lack thereof) to return to my country, I’d try to give the best, most detailed answers that I could.