Sigh! When her son left Calgary last November, his mother thought the 21-year-old Muslim convert had gone to study at a university in Egypt. Then two Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers came to her front door.
“We don’t think he’s in Egypt,” they told her. They showed her photos of his suspected associates. They said they’d been monitoring her son for some time and had reason to believe he might be involved with an extremist group.
A few days later, the CSIS officers came to her workplace and said they’d checked his travel history and confirmed he was not in Egypt. He’d flown instead to Istanbul and, from there, had probably crossed into Syria.
“He’s definitely with some kind of jihadist group,” the mother told the National Post on the condition she would not be publicly identified. “They call themselves the Muslim Brotherhood out here. And he was recruited from a mosque.”
As the war in Syria has dragged on, with almost daily reports of atrocities, recruits from across Canada have allegedly been making their way to the region to join the fight, sometimes alongside extremists loyal to al-Qaeda.
Mother of Canadian Muslim convert says son recruited into Syrian conflict | Canada | News | National Post
“We don’t think he’s in Egypt,” they told her. They showed her photos of his suspected associates. They said they’d been monitoring her son for some time and had reason to believe he might be involved with an extremist group.
A few days later, the CSIS officers came to her workplace and said they’d checked his travel history and confirmed he was not in Egypt. He’d flown instead to Istanbul and, from there, had probably crossed into Syria.
“He’s definitely with some kind of jihadist group,” the mother told the National Post on the condition she would not be publicly identified. “They call themselves the Muslim Brotherhood out here. And he was recruited from a mosque.”
As the war in Syria has dragged on, with almost daily reports of atrocities, recruits from across Canada have allegedly been making their way to the region to join the fight, sometimes alongside extremists loyal to al-Qaeda.
Mother of Canadian Muslim convert says son recruited into Syrian conflict | Canada | News | National Post
