{"id":8378,"date":"2002-11-23T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2002-11-23T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/23\/canadians-crack-down-on-hamas\/"},"modified":"2002-11-23T10:02:20","modified_gmt":"2002-11-23T15:02:20","slug":"canadians-crack-down-on-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/canadians-crack-down-on-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians crack down on Hamas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>The Canadian government is considering banning the<br \/>\nPalestinian terrorist group that claimed responsibility for bombing a Jerusalem<br \/>\nbus crowded with schoolchildren and commuters yesterday, the National Post has<br \/>\nlearned.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>As Israelis dealt with yet another suicide bombing, which<br \/>\nkilled 11 victims and injured 49, a proposal by Canadian officials was making<br \/>\nits way to Cabinet calling for the addition of Hamas to Canada&#8217;s list of<br \/>\ndesignated terrorist organizations.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>If Cabinet approves the recommendation, Hamas would be<br \/>\noutlawed under the Criminal Code as an &#8220;entity knowingly engaged in terrorist<br \/>\nactivity,&#8221; giving police authority to arrest anyone giving support to the<br \/>\ngroup.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>A Cabinet decision is expected by the end of the month.<br \/>\nHamas, an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, has used Canada as<br \/>\nbase for fundraising for a decade, in part by soliciting donations it claims are<br \/>\nfor humanitarian aid.<\/font><br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/home\/story.html?id=%7BCF125083-E735-4299-B7B0-A60D20B3D4B6%7D\"\ntarget=_blank>Full story<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>Considering banning? This is a slam dunk and should have been accomplished a<br \/>\nlong time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government is considering banning the Palestinian terrorist group that claimed responsibility for bombing a Jerusalem bus crowded with schoolchildren and commuters yesterday, the National Post has learned. As&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}