Letter from a mother, regarding her son Damian Clairmont – Abu Talha. Dear son of someone else’s mother, I received your letter in regards to your recollections of my son, Damian – Abu Talha. You spoke highly of him as an intelligent and caring individual. Of course, I raised him. Many times by myself while h aving to manage the ot her children and aspects in my family. While you may recollect of h im based on the very short time you knew him, I gave birth to him. I watched him learn to walk, to f all, to grow up … normal things that mothers do with their children. Speaking of mothers, I understand that your own mother is in grief over your leaving. After this whole experience with my son, the subjec t of Islam was now forcefully brought into my l ife. I reached out to find answers to what Islam had to say about all this. I cannot quote verses and traditions that you can but I know some basic rules and the first one is: “do not even make them feel the need to say Uff!” I also know that the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) did no t permit Jihad if the parents were still aliv e or without their permission, Muslim or not. I am at a loss to understand how you have come to violate this most basic aspect of Islam. Can you imagine what you have done to your own Muslim mother, never mind what it has done to this non-Muslim mother? I cannot even begin to know the brutalities of the Syrian regime and the very real oppression that my son wanted to fight against. I raised him to care about those things. But he had just beg un his Muslim life. There w as no obligation on him directly, to have to go and fight for a group who has made war with the very Syrians they claimed to have gone to protect. Does Islam not say to live, to have families, to build and not destroy? Good Muslims in Canada who have helped me understand Islam, have made realize that I am less angry with you, as I am in pain knowing that your own mother feels these same concerns about you right now. If there is anything I can convince you of, it’s to think about the rights of the mothers you will have to answer for. Christianne Boudreau
Responding to a letter by Canadian extremist, who told her she should be proud her son Damian Clairmont, a Canadian foreign fighter who died in Syria, Christianne Boudreau penned this reply, scolding him for the trouble he has caused his own mother and ignoring the basic tenets of his faith.
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Letter from a mother, regarding her son Damian Clairmont Abu
Talha. Dear son of someone elses mother, I received your letter in
regards to your recollections of my son, Damian Abu Talha. You
spoke highly of him as an intelligent and caring individual. Of
course, I raised him. Many times by myself while having to manage
the other children and aspects in my family. While you may
recollect of him based on the very short time you knew him, I gave
birth to him. I watched him learn to walk, to fall, to grow up
normal things that mothers do with their children. Speaking of
mothers, I understand that your own mother is in grief over your
leaving. After this whole experience with my son, the subject of
Islam was now forcefully brought into my life. I reached out to
find answers to what Islam had to say about all this. I cannot
quote verses and traditions that you can but I know some basic
rules and the first one is: do not even make them feel the need to
say Uff! I also know that the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) did not
permit Jihad if the parents were still alive or without their
permission, Muslim or not. I am at a loss to understand how you
have come to violate this most basic aspect of Islam. Can you
imagine what you have done to your own Muslim mother, never mind
what it has done to this non-Muslim mother? I cannot even begin to
know the brutalities of the Syrian regime and the very real
oppression that my son wanted to fight against. I raised him to
care about those things. But he had just begun his Muslim life.
There was no obligation on him directly, to have to go and fight
for a group who has made war with the very Syrians they claimed to
have gone to protect. Does Islam not say to live, to have families,
to build and not destroy? Good Muslims in Canada who have helped me
understand Islam, have made realize that I am less angry with you,
as I am in pain knowing that your own mother feels these same
concerns about you right now. If there is anything I can convince
you of, its to think about the rights of the mothers you will have
to answer for. Christianne Boudreau
