Quebec woman charged with trying to export assault rifle parts to Lebanon

Another case of Muslim gratitude.

FROM NATIONALPOST.COM:

Quebec woman charged with trying to export assault rifle parts to Lebanon

National Post Staff Oct 21, 2011 – 8:01 AM ET | Last Updated: Oct 21, 2011 7:39 PM ET

By Stewart Bell and Graeme Hamilton

MONTREAL — Young and striking in her black hijab, Mouna Diab was once active in a Quebec youth group that fought discrimination against Muslims by challenging the stereotypes that too often associate them with violence and terror.

But the outspoken 26-year-old activist had little to say this week after appearing in a Montreal courtroom to face a charge alleging she had violated a United Nations Security Council arms embargo that prohibits the export of weapons to Lebanon.

“I really have no comment to make,” she said. At the bungalow where she lives in suburban Laval, friends and family likewise declined to talk about the case. “She’s finding the whole ordeal very difficult,” her lawyer, Richard Prihoda, said.

Police said Ms. Diab was arrested at Montreal’s Trudeau airport on May 19 as she was departing for Beirut. In her luggage, investigators allegedly found parts of AR-15 assault rifles. Other parts were allegedly shipped separately.

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