So is this a wakeup call for canadians who had their their heads ...................
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I dunno... I'm thinking that the only sharing would be if the person sitting across the had an AK-47 on their lap and were possibly speaking about the decadence of Western civilization embodied by niceties like Timbits... Of course, in order to demonstrate that the timbits were 'Jihad Approved' - one might share only to assist in expanding the formal education of the group
The family claimed he was a good man just traveling- Not in jail. Canadians arrested abroad and jailed for a length of time, the Embassy / Consulate is informed. Foreign Affairs would have notified the family.
Friend of Algerian attackers jailed for 2 years in Africa - Politics - CBC News
Ontario Islam convert is serving two-year sentence in Mauritania, agency confirms - The Globe and Mail
An Ontario man who converted to Islam and travelled to Mauritania is now serving a two-year sentence for having ties to terrorism, Amnesty International has confirmed.
Aaron Yoon, of London, Ont., is a former high-school friend of two Canadians who died in January’s terrorist strike in Algeria.
There had been confusion about his fate, with his family denying that he is behind bars and the federal government refusing to be explicit about his whereabouts. In fact, Mr. Yoon has been custody for more than 15 months after being arrested in December 2011.
Mr. Yoon was sentenced after a trial in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott last July, said Gaëtan Mootoo, an Amnesty International researcher for West Africa.
The Canadian told Mr. Mootoo he didn’t want the human-rights group to lobby on his behalf.
“He didn’t want Amnesty to campaign for him so I have to respect that,” Mr. Mootoo said in a phone interview from Paris.
Because Mr. Yoon was arrested in Dec. 2011, his sentence will end in December of this year, Mr. Mootoo said. In addition to the two-year detention term, he was also imposed “a heavy fine.”
He said the young Canadian, who is in his early 20s, is detained relatively good conditions at the civil prison in Nouakchott, where most Islamic radicals are held.
Friend of Algerian attackers jailed for 2 years in Africa - Politics - CBC News
Ontario Islam convert is serving two-year sentence in Mauritania, agency confirms - The Globe and Mail
An Ontario man who converted to Islam and travelled to Mauritania is now serving a two-year sentence for having ties to terrorism, Amnesty International has confirmed.
Aaron Yoon, of London, Ont., is a former high-school friend of two Canadians who died in January’s terrorist strike in Algeria.
There had been confusion about his fate, with his family denying that he is behind bars and the federal government refusing to be explicit about his whereabouts. In fact, Mr. Yoon has been custody for more than 15 months after being arrested in December 2011.
Mr. Yoon was sentenced after a trial in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott last July, said Gaëtan Mootoo, an Amnesty International researcher for West Africa.
The Canadian told Mr. Mootoo he didn’t want the human-rights group to lobby on his behalf.
“He didn’t want Amnesty to campaign for him so I have to respect that,” Mr. Mootoo said in a phone interview from Paris.
Because Mr. Yoon was arrested in Dec. 2011, his sentence will end in December of this year, Mr. Mootoo said. In addition to the two-year detention term, he was also imposed “a heavy fine.”
He said the young Canadian, who is in his early 20s, is detained relatively good conditions at the civil prison in Nouakchott, where most Islamic radicals are held.
We were discussing this over lunch at the office on Friday, given that it's a local news story. We've got four kids, all from the same high school, all with different backgrounds, all being brought in to this fold of radicalized terrorism. And of course the big questions are why and how. In the end, if you really stop and think about it, the how seems rather obvious. It's because they're young. Teenagers, even those who come from relatively stable backgrounds, can go through very intense periods of angst, depression, anger during those years. It really makes them easy pickings for any kind of cult, any racist group, or any terrorist group to get a hold of them and subvert their thinking. You see it all the time with white supremacy groups. Youth are, just by virtue of being youth, disenfranchised. They hold no power so anyone, no matter how radical their views, that makes them feel powerful, has a fair chance of winning them over.
The other big question around the lunchroom was why of course. Why here, it's a quiet place, it's not like Toronto, etc, etc. But I think maybe that's the point. What we have here in London is a fairly decent size population, more to pick from, and yet it's not really the kind of place that jumps to mind when one thinks of radicalized terrorism. Personally I think we'll likely see more stories like this emerging, not from our largest urban centres like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, but from some of our smaller ones.
The other big question around the lunchroom was why of course. Why here, it's a quiet place, it's not like Toronto, etc, etc. But I think maybe that's the point. What we have here in London is a fairly decent size population, more to pick from, and yet it's not really the kind of place that jumps to mind when one thinks of radicalized terrorism. Personally I think we'll likely see more stories like this emerging, not from our largest urban centres like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, but from some of our smaller ones.