The Continued Focus

"We're continuing to focus our investigation on anybody who may have contributed to the presence there. In that sense we still have an open book on what happened there.
"It is a little frustrating because I don't think people fully understand the phenomenon of homegrown radicalization. It's something I think we need to get serious about. We need to co-ordinate our efforts in our communities and make sure we're able to prevent these things."
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson

Awaiting evidence, assistance, accounts from the public to aid security authorities in attempting to understand how Canadian-born, or -raised children could conceivably surrender all their superior opportunities within a country dedicated to the concept of equality and pluralism and justice and freedom for the opportunity to become a part of a far more interesting phenomenon working itself out in deprived, dangerous, human-rights-abusing parts of the world.

There lies excitement, fulfillment, opportunity. Above all, the opportunity to become part of a dynamic movement, one that captures the imagination of adventurous young minds. Who imagine themselves heroes in a lop-sided battle between the advanced West and the mystical East that has suffered far too long the violations that the world of infidels have visited upon Islam attempting to oppress and control it, seeking to advantage themselves with its resources.

Those young Muslims who answer the siren call of the oppressed and the disadvantaged, the spurned and the maligned, to right a dreadful moral wrong know that this is their duty as believing, dutiful sons of Islam, in utter surrender to the ages-old demand upon true believers. This, doubtless is the message that has been conveyed to impressionable and very willing minds sorting out just where they should stand in the polarizing issue of West and East, Islam and Infidels.

Attempts at ingratiating themselves as representatives of law, order and community security appear to have met a dead end. Those who are prepared to exchange information with law authorities have no information to relay. Those in possession of information have no intention whatever of betraying the trust that Islam places within their bosoms, deep within their consciousness and their sub-conscious for surrender means just that; there is no questioning Islam, nor jihad.

The fourth mysteriously-inducted-into-jihad London, Ontario youth, unlike the previous three, is from a devout Muslim family living there. He is not known to have been at the Algerian desert Tiguentourine Gas Plant, unlike the two Canadians found dead there, Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, who had been among the other terrorists who took foreign workers hostage and murdered 37 with the full intention of destroying the In Amenas compound and killing hundreds of workers.

Three of the original 42 terrorists escaped, their whereabouts unknown; the RCMP investigators at the scene, working with Algerian security to identify the remains of the two Canadians made vague mention of another Canadian who might have been involved in the attack. It is not known where Mujahid Enderi is and his family have not been forthcoming with that information, if indeed they know where he can be located.

Perhaps Aaron Yoon, now serving a two-year prison sentence in Mauritania for terrorism activity knows. He has divulged little of value to incriminate himself, since he asserts that the charges levelled against him are false. "This Canadian citizen stated to investigators that he had come from Morocco to study the Qu'ran and Islamic law before being indoctrinated by salafist jihadists who recruited him to join AQIM in the north of Mali", stated a Mauritian judicial official.

Discrimination in the sense of determining when would-be immigrants represent to immigration authorities as likely to be able to successfully integrate into Canadian society would not be an altogether bad thing. Men and woman from Muslim countries who are so orthodox that they prefer not to mingle with others, and who make that obvious by the wearing of the traditional burqa to ensure that women know their place, would certainly signal an incapacity to adapt to Canadian values.

Another signal might be the naming of young men who are born Canadians of Muslim heritage after very particularized and representative values of Islam such as using the word 'mujahadeen', translated as 'strugglers', or 'people doing jihad' might be recognized as symptomatic of values inimical to those held dear by the West. The option of naming a son "mujahid' for example, as in Mujahid Enderi, the fourth young man absent from current knowledge of his whereabouts, like his former friends.