Via CBC:
The mother of a young Canadian man currently in Syria has been asking for months how and why her son ended up there among a group of extremist fighters.
“How do you sit there and admit to somebody, my son has gone off to fight in a war where I don’t know if he’s a terrorist or not?” the mother said to CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault.
“Are you going to openly admit that? Probably not. ‘Cause the first thing a mother says is, ‘What did I do wrong? How could this be my son? What did I do?”
As she worries about her son, the mother is too scared to reveal her identity.
The situation in Syria threatens to escalate, as a panel of U.S. senators on Wednesday voted to give President Barack Obama the authority to use military action against the Syrian government after the White House said the regime carried out a chemical weapons attack.
Estimates vary as to how many Canadians are jihadi fighters in Syria. Government estimates and others who track jihadi fighters put the figure at a range of a few dozen to as many as 100 fighting in Syria against the government, a figure that should cause alarm, given that the public number of Americans fighting there is much smaller, meaning Canada may be overrepresented.