Jack Letts, a Canadian who converted to Islam, traveled to war torn Syria in 2014 at aged 18, to the Al-Qaeda-infested North West region of Idlib.
Letts traveled to a region controlled by Al-Qaeda and ISIS at the height of their power, two years after he converted to Islam.
British tabloids nicknamed him Jihadi Jack, at a time when other Western converts were joining terror groups in Syria.
Accused of being a member of ISIS, Letts has been in a Syrian prison for seven years, after being captured by Kurdish forces in 2017. He hasn’t been convicted of any crime.
A photograph of Letts in ISIS-held territory shows him making the identical “tawheed” hand gesture made by many fighters and supporters of the terrorist group.
Meanwhile, CTV has decided to take on an investigative report of his parents’ fight to have him returned to Canada by embracing the narrative that Letts could very well be an innocent Canadian who’s unable to ‘return home’.
CTV showed a family photo of Letts as a child making the same hand gesture, conflating and distancing himself from any association, all while Letts was publicly known to be Islamist in his lifestyle, even adopting the Islamic tradition of growing out his beard.
But the evidence is stacked against Letts. Even the Liberals, with their history of gifting convicted Canadian terrorists not just freedom, but millions of dollars, have distanced themselves from Letts.
The Liberals’ Foreign Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly, told reporters earlier this year, “When you decide to join ISIS and you leave the country…you bear the responsibility for your decision.”
Letts’ family claims that he was motivated by the “pro-democracy” protests in Syria, which actually started in 2011, and were long quashed before he arrived, leaving Islamists and the government in armed conflict.
Yet, in a 2019 BBC interview of Letts in prison, he admitted he had contemplated carrying out a suicide bombing attack, saying he ultimately decided against it, thinking it was anti-Muslim. Letts, initially holding both British and Canadian citizenship, had his UK citizenship revoked by the British government in August 2019.
CTV, in collaboration with his family, are gaslighting Canadians, who are already facing security threats from individuals who have already made it to Canada with ISIS ties.
Canada’s open-border policy with immigration via illegals, temporary workers and asylum seekers, have allowed multiple individuals linked to terrorism to enter the country in recent years, including some who have been able to earn Canadian passports.
