Something of a stretch to classify hunkering down against an invading militia as a hate crime -- but lost in all this is how Khadr's case SHOULD have been handled.

If he had been in the thrall of reprobate parents in the U.S., and killed a cashier in a holdup, he most likely would have been tried as a juvenile, cut off from his family, instantly repatriated and given the opportunity to integrate into respectable society.   So what was dramatically different about Khadr's case -- besides the legitimacy of the charge, and how the general public started screaming "evil Muslim" and thereby making itself crazy?