Twisted Canadians

Well, there's an interesting picture of a typical Canadian teenager. Disinterested in school: check. Resentful of authority: check. Anti-Social and bullying: check. Belligerently outspoken: check. Challenging the status quo: check. Invested in trouble-making: check. But he'll outgrow all of that, they always do, right?

Well, perhaps not. Perhaps not this individual. Considering the source of his unwillingness to adapt to the prevailing culture and values of the majority population. Living in an ethnic, religious enclave that sets itself aside and apart from the main culture will do it, but does not really have to result in that, and does not, always.

Perhaps it depends on the depth of the alienation. When a family looks on the majority of those among whom they live as a total pejorative. Unbelievers, unclean, degraded in their values, whose culture is to be despised. But yet accommodates itself to the social environment insofar as it may take what it is entitled to in a pluralistic society.

Universal medicare and hospitalization, social security supports, free education, even if the content of that education is suspect. Making it somewhat predictable that among such brooding, resentful residents of the country there will be a small representation of those who feel it right and proper to reject all that it feels reflects the character of the country, its laws and assurances, its security apparatuses, its social measures to ensure equality.

This appears to be where Ali Medlej and Mujahid Enderi come from in their psychic deliberation. And the circumstances that prevailed that provoked the interest of two others not born into Arabic culture and devotion to Islam. Both presenting as a combination to which Aaron Yoon and Xris Katsiroubas found to their liking to become enamoured of and ensconced within, feeling themselves quite at home.

Conflicted minds and afflicted values meeting in the adventure of striking out to greet new horizons. Aspiring to become mujahadeen in the battle of the righteous against the perverse, the believers against the infidel, the jihadists against the kuffar. One so pedestrian, the other appealing in its promise of action! excitement! adventure!

Leaving one in a temporary state of foreign incarceration, another mysteriously absent from detection of his whereabouts, and two very stone, cold dead. Others are there, somewhere, and gradually being implicated in other terrorist attacks. What any enterprising Canadian youth might be interested in experiencing - at least once in their otherwise-boring lives.

Eh?