Jihadi’s are joining from Canada in increasing numbers. Click photo for video.
Via Sun News
It’s a growing and worrying scourge in the first world: radicalized young Muslim men going abroad to wage Islamist jihad.
On Friday, QMI Agency reported that Calgary man Farah Mohamed Shirdon was killed in Iraq fighting with the terrorist group ISIS, currently surging in Iraq and Syria.
On June 23 a Twitter account bearing his name proclaimed: “Martyrdom is what I seek.”
Back in April a video surfaced showing Shirdon burning his Canadian passport. “We are coming and will destroy you … this is a message for Canada and for all America,” he said. “I left comfort for one reason alone, for Allah.”
What comfort are we talking about here?
Shirdon was no victim. He came from a prominent family – his uncle was prime minister of Somalia – and was enrolled in post-secondary education.
Calgary has sadly become a radicalization hotspot. Damian Clairmont and Salman Ashrafi are two other Calgarians who have recently died fighting Islamist jihad abroad.
Imam Syed Soharwardy told the Calgary Sun his city is “a breeding ground, I’m expecting more.” He added: “If it’s not properly controlled and monitored by the government, it could be a nightmare for us.”
CSIS is aware of 130 Canadian radicals abroad and around 80 who have since returned. Who knows what they’re up to?
HT JettieG