Canada Ping!
Posted on 07/21/2014 10:46:38 AM PDT by george76
Chris Boudreau has been reeling for months after learning her son died fighting with a terrorist group overseas. Now, a self-proclaimed jihadist is urging the Calgary mother to embrace an extremist ideology she suspects was used to brainwash her son.
On his blog, Abu Dujana al-Muhajir claims he was among a group of young men who left Calgary to join “various fronts of Jihad” after forming a study group at a downtown mosque. Damian Clairmont, Boudreau’s son who was also part of the group, was later killed during rebel infighting in Syria.
Clairmont’s death devastated and confounded his mother, who continues to struggle with how her boy, raised in a loving Canadian family, could adopt radical views and die fighting for them.
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The attempt to get me to fall for the same thing just made me shake my head,” said Boudreau, who has branded herself an advocate against homegrown radicalization, and has met with officials across Canada and abroad to advance her cause.
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Earlier in June, news emerged that Salman Ashrafi, a former analyst with a Calgary oil company, strapped a bomb to his chest and detonated it at an Iraqi army base last November.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Poor lad didn't even get his 72 virgins...
Islam is a virus.
“I tell you what, John. Let's wipe the slate clean. Everyone is good and loving. Then we will meet back here in 6 months and tally up the news stories that involve atrocities. The 2 sides that are to be judged are the Muslims and everyone else in the world. Not every Muslim is a terrorist but .....”
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CBC News has confirmed that Al Khorasani was Ashrafi’s nom de guerre and that he was a Canadian citizen who grew up in the Stampede City
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3164334/posts
“radicalized” my foot.
Canada Ping!
It happens a lot. Angst-ridden rebellious teen loner converts, militants at mosque become his Bestest Friends Ever.
Canada? Probably raised quite liberally.
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