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To: longnshort who wrote (10565)	10/15/2007 8:02:54 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Controversial imam arrested SIDHARTHA BANERJEE Canadian Press October 15, 2007 at 5:56 PM EDT MONTREAL — A controversial Montreal imam ordered deported last year and without official status in Canada will be in front of an Immigration and Refugee board on Wednesday fighting to stay in Canada. As his pregnant wife watched, Said Jaziri was arrested under the Immigration and Refugee Status Act on Monday and officials held him at a detention centre in nearby Laval pending a 48-hour revision. Jaziri's Canadian-born wife, Nancy-Ann Adams who is seven months pregnant, said she has lost confidence in the Canadian justice system. She said she can't understand why her husband was arrested and that he is by no means a flight risk. Adams told reporters she's convinced that her husband will be tortured to death if he is returned to his native Tunisia. “It's not just an impression I have, it's a certainty,” Ms. Adams said. “There's no doubt about it.” Mr. Jaziri was arrested by Canada Border Services Agency officials at one of the agency's offices on Monday morning where he'd gone for a meeting, said agency spokeswoman Kareen Dionne. Ms. Dionne declined to release specific details about Mr. Jaziri's case, saying only that information about the case and motives for why the border agency asked for his detention will be disclosed at the hearing. “Generally, the motives that are invoked to ask for the detention of an individual is based on the risk of that individual not showing up either for an audience review or for the removal process,” Ms. Dionne said. Last December, Mr. Jaziri took sanctuary inside his Montreal mosque after the refugee board revoked his refugee status obtained in 1998. The immigration and refugee board claims the Tunisian-born cleric presented false information to enter Canada. The board has accused him of hiding a criminal record in France and of exaggerating the risks of returning to his homeland. Mr. Jaziri denies both claims and says criminal record was expunged after he agreed to collaborate with French security forces. But attempts to reverse the decision before the Federal Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal have proven unsuccessful for Mr. Jaziri. At the Al Qods mosque in northeast Montreal where Mr. Jaziri is the imam, emotions ran high as members began gathering support. Mohammed Alaoui, one of the members of the mosque, called for Montreal's Muslim community to support Mr. Jaziri. “He's a man who tells the truth, the whole truth,” said Mr. Alaoui of the Muslim cleric, adding a number of protests are forthcoming. A well-known leader in Montreal's Muslim community, Mr. Jaziri also led a local protest almost two years ago against controversial editorial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. In June 2006, Mr. Jaziri was assaulted by a knife-wielding man outside his mosque. Mr. Jaziri had previously barricaded himself in the mosque in 2005 when he learned that Canadian officials were attempting to revoke his status.