…Canada is fortunate not to have as many terrorists or other Islamist inmates as the U.S.via Islamist extremists radicalizing Canadians at ‘a large number of venues,’ secret report reveals | National Post.
Islamist extremists are now radicalizing
Canadians at “a large number of venues,” according to a secret
intelligence report released to the National Post under the Access to
Information Act.
While mosques with hardline imams are
often singled out for spreading violent Islamist ideology, the study
found that radicalization has been taking place at a much longer list of
locales.
“Radicalization is not limited to
religious centres,” says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
report, titled Venues of Sunni Islamist Radicalization in Canada.
The heavily censored report identifies the
role of prisons, the Internet and foreign travel in turning some
Canadians into extremists who wage or support violence. But it also
points a finger at the family home.
“Parents have radicalized children,” reads
the Intelligence Assessment, “husbands have radicalized wives (and some
wives have radicalized or supported their husbands) … and siblings have
radicalized each other,” it says.
“As this assessment has demonstrated, a
large number of venues have been, and continue to be used to further
Islamist extremist ideology. … As radicalization is usually a social
process, it can occur wherever humans interact, in the real world or
virtual ones,” it says.
Since al-Qaeda’s attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, an increasing number of Canadians have become lured into Islamist
extremism, an intolerant, anti-democratic and virulently anti-Western
worldview that preaches that violence against non-Muslims is a religious
duty and a path to paradise.
Several Canadian extremists have travelled
abroad to countries such as Pakistan and Somalia with the intention of
engaging in what they call jihad, while others have plotted mass
casualty attacks in Canada, although none has succeeded.
via Sun News : Terrorism expert warns against radical Islam spreading in Canadian jails.
OTTAWA — Canada has relatively few
terrorists behind bars, but an expert on prison radicalization says the
problem of Islamist ideology spreading among inmates is a real one.
“This isn’t to say that all inmates will
become radicals, or even that many will,” said Dr. Alexandre Wilner, a
Research Fellow with the Mandonald-Laurier Institute and a terrorism
expert. “But it is to suggest that prison represents a potentially good
window of opportunity for spreading radical views and recruiting others
to a violent cause.”
Wilner’s comments follow the release of a
highly censored CSIS threat assessment that confirmed that Sunni
Islamist radicalization is taking place in Canadian prisons, within
families and through jihadi websites.
The parts of the assessment that the
public has been allowed to see don’t indicate how large a problem
Islamist radicalization is within Canada or offer specific examples of
cases.
Wilner says Canada is fortunate not to have as many terrorists or other Islamist inmates as the U.S., Britain, France and Spain because it allows authorities here to intervene early in preventing radicalization.
“By gauging other countries’ policies for
minimizing the risk of prison radicalization, we might be able to
construct the sorts of things we need now in Canada to limit our
susceptibility to the threat,” he said.
Among recommendations Wilner made to a
special Senate anti-terror committee is a call for the RCMP, CSIS, and
the Correctional Service of Canada to take a more coordinated approach
to understanding Islamist radicalization since the problem is still in
its early stages.
Unfortunately for Canadians, dhimmi politicians continue to legitimize Muslims who associate with terrorists, advocate for sharia and support jihad.
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