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Omar protest in Hogtown: Well, the heavens opened in Toronto yesterday afternoon, but despite the deluge around 200 hardy souls rallied in support of young Omar Khadr. Among the throng: Omar’s ever-loving family, who miss him like the dickens. From the Toronto Sun:

The message to the Canadian government by Karim Khadr was simple: "Bring him home."

Karim, 19, sat in his wheelchair in the pouring rain across the street from the U.S. consulate on University Ave. yesterday where a rally was held in support of bringing his brother, Omar, home to Canada, his birthplace.

"We are not saying bring him back and don't trial him," Karim said. "We want a fair trial."

He said he believes the government will do more if enough Canadians support the return of his brother from the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

It's been six years since Omar Khadr, now 21, was arrested and accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.

"Most of our hope is based on the Canadian population," said Karim who was joined by his mother, his sister, and about 200 supporters.

Karim was paralyzed from the waist down in the same gun battle that killed his father in Afghanistan in 2003. He returned to Canada in 2004 with his mother to seek medical attention.

Karim and his family were happy with the turnout, despite the stormy weather.

"I am angry," Karim said about a recent video released showing his brother weeping at Guantanamo when he was only 16.

"He had so much hope that Canada would come to his rescue."

His sister, Zaynab, 28, said he's sorely missed.

"(He was) one of those kids that you might not notice, but you will miss the moment he's gone because you're going to be calling for him and he's not going to be there," she said.

Pascal Murphy, 30, said any system linked to torture should be terminated and Khadr deserves Canada's support.

"Guantanamo has been clearly linked with torture and so has Omar Khadr," he said.

Reading the above I can’t help but think of the toll the jihad has taken on this family: father dead; one son incarcerated for the duration of his adolescence, now facing a military trial; one son, even younger, stuck in a wheelchair for life. Not to mention the emotionally damaged ma and sis, suffused with loathing for the kafirs and their infidel laws. The crowd should be protested that abuse, not some sleep deprivation at Gitmo.

Update: Only "a few dozen" protesters turned out in Ottawa, including those sweet old moonbats, the Raging Grannies.

The Grannies, who always like to warble an unbelievably lame song parody in their own inimitably atonal fashion, sang this one for Omar, to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain":

Noel Coward they ain't.

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