Radical-Prevention
Yet another case surfacing of the civilizing effects of Islam on the minds of its faithful adherents. The Islamic youth of today who appear not to be closely heeding their parents' and community leaders' call to respect the social order, and who have instead, turned to the far more personally satisfying siren call of social disaffection. Where illicit activities have their irresistible appeal, and the easy availability of crime-related profit seems far preferable to mundane civil order.
A young boy, lauded by all those who knew him; relatives, neighbours, school peers, even casual acquaintances, as a gentle soul who was interested in sports and academics and a friend to everyone is now dead. His family in deep mourning, unable to adjust so readily to the reality that their child is no longer, his life brutally wrenched from them. For the manner in which he met his death was most definitely brutal; mortally shot then shoved onto the street from the vehicle his killer was driving.
Hazdan Ghiasvand Ghiasi was only sixteen. His aspirations will never now be part of his future. His parents will never see their son grow to maturity. Why he responded to an order to enter the vehicle of Abdulhamid Wehbe, his senior by four years - and at that age representing quite an age gap - and how they were involved, and why he was targeted for murder is not yet known. Mr. Wehbe was clearly involved with the dissemination of drugs.
There are three men who have been arrested relating to the murder of young Iranian-born Ghiasi. They descend in age from 19-year-old Khaled Wehbe and 18-year-old Zakaria Dourhnou. These two have been charged with being accessories after the fact, aiding the older Abdulhamid who has been charged with second-degree murder as the man police sought in Yazdan Ghiasi's death.
The two younger arrested men were involving in assisting the older with evading arrest, enabling his escape from suspicion. Police officers caught the two, Khaled Wehbe and Zakaria Dourhnou, at a car wash, attempting to erase the evidence by cleaning the interior of the vehicle Abdulhamid Wehbe was driving when he murdered Yazdan Ghiasi, and from which the boy had been pushed, after being shot.
So did these three young Muslims find it attractive to integrate into the larger Canadian society? Clearly there must have been something that attracted them. And peculiarly enough, it was to study for inclusion in a branch of civil security and defence. Taking a police foundations course at Algonquin College. While the accused murderer worked for a family-owned business; Ottawa Metro Towing and Recovery Inc.
It was in fact an Ottawa Metro Towing van that Abdulhamid had been driving, and from within which he shot young Ghiasi, then casually disposed of the body by contemptuously tossing it from the vehicle, before driving off. The boy will never become a mechanical engineer, his goal for his professional future and for which he attempted to improve his physics mark by after-hours study.
His aspiration nicely matched those that Canada attempts to instill in its young people. It is also a traditional profession that young men of Arab descent often opt for. His murderer accepted a different lifestyle, one that his neighbours readily recognized and abhorred, drug dealing, describing his character as "noisy and disrespectful", an individual they did not feel comfortable with, nor could respect.
These, clearly, are the Muslim immigrant youth that the British-based think-tank Demos recommends the Government of Canada consider devising and developing a social remediation program for, to direct them away from a life of crime - and far more specifically - succumbing to the exciting allure of violent jihad, by introducing them to the verities and soul-satisfying activities related to volunteerism.
"Opportunities to travel and volunteer abroad cannot only channel energy and engender a concern for others, but also take the glamour out of the al-Qaeda narrative and increase appreciation of Western citizens for the rights granted in their own countries." This is one of the signal recommendations contained in The Edge of Violence, resulting from a 2-year study of homegrown radicalization.
Right. Entertain me, divert me, privilege me by sending me abroad and tutoring me in doing good works there, lest I succumb to the riveting adventures exemplified by bloody jihad. In the meantime, home-grown violence will have to suffice.
A young boy, lauded by all those who knew him; relatives, neighbours, school peers, even casual acquaintances, as a gentle soul who was interested in sports and academics and a friend to everyone is now dead. His family in deep mourning, unable to adjust so readily to the reality that their child is no longer, his life brutally wrenched from them. For the manner in which he met his death was most definitely brutal; mortally shot then shoved onto the street from the vehicle his killer was driving.
Hazdan Ghiasvand Ghiasi was only sixteen. His aspirations will never now be part of his future. His parents will never see their son grow to maturity. Why he responded to an order to enter the vehicle of Abdulhamid Wehbe, his senior by four years - and at that age representing quite an age gap - and how they were involved, and why he was targeted for murder is not yet known. Mr. Wehbe was clearly involved with the dissemination of drugs.
There are three men who have been arrested relating to the murder of young Iranian-born Ghiasi. They descend in age from 19-year-old Khaled Wehbe and 18-year-old Zakaria Dourhnou. These two have been charged with being accessories after the fact, aiding the older Abdulhamid who has been charged with second-degree murder as the man police sought in Yazdan Ghiasi's death.
The two younger arrested men were involving in assisting the older with evading arrest, enabling his escape from suspicion. Police officers caught the two, Khaled Wehbe and Zakaria Dourhnou, at a car wash, attempting to erase the evidence by cleaning the interior of the vehicle Abdulhamid Wehbe was driving when he murdered Yazdan Ghiasi, and from which the boy had been pushed, after being shot.
So did these three young Muslims find it attractive to integrate into the larger Canadian society? Clearly there must have been something that attracted them. And peculiarly enough, it was to study for inclusion in a branch of civil security and defence. Taking a police foundations course at Algonquin College. While the accused murderer worked for a family-owned business; Ottawa Metro Towing and Recovery Inc.
It was in fact an Ottawa Metro Towing van that Abdulhamid had been driving, and from within which he shot young Ghiasi, then casually disposed of the body by contemptuously tossing it from the vehicle, before driving off. The boy will never become a mechanical engineer, his goal for his professional future and for which he attempted to improve his physics mark by after-hours study.
His aspiration nicely matched those that Canada attempts to instill in its young people. It is also a traditional profession that young men of Arab descent often opt for. His murderer accepted a different lifestyle, one that his neighbours readily recognized and abhorred, drug dealing, describing his character as "noisy and disrespectful", an individual they did not feel comfortable with, nor could respect.
These, clearly, are the Muslim immigrant youth that the British-based think-tank Demos recommends the Government of Canada consider devising and developing a social remediation program for, to direct them away from a life of crime - and far more specifically - succumbing to the exciting allure of violent jihad, by introducing them to the verities and soul-satisfying activities related to volunteerism.
"Opportunities to travel and volunteer abroad cannot only channel energy and engender a concern for others, but also take the glamour out of the al-Qaeda narrative and increase appreciation of Western citizens for the rights granted in their own countries." This is one of the signal recommendations contained in The Edge of Violence, resulting from a 2-year study of homegrown radicalization.
Right. Entertain me, divert me, privilege me by sending me abroad and tutoring me in doing good works there, lest I succumb to the riveting adventures exemplified by bloody jihad. In the meantime, home-grown violence will have to suffice.
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