Forewarned Is Forearmed....

"I would say that the Canadians should be very vigilant of not losing their own children, because this child, maybe he's been told to go to jihad but next day he will be told to do the same jihad in the middle of Toronto. Why not? It's the same thing. Because they are saying, 'You are going to fight the infidels.' What is actually keeping them from fighting the infidels of Toronto or the infidels of Montreal or the infidels of Ottawa? So we don't need what happened in Westgate.
"I'm saying, go with your own children. Be with them. Don't actually give them a chance to be alone with those preachers, which is very important. If we do that, we minimize at least 75% of the risk."
Andurahman Adan Ibrahim, former Somali Deputy Prime Minister

"[...He would] "make sure that our policemen are reaching out that -- I mean with imams. I meet with the Somali community who come to us and say, 'Help us because our young are being radicalized.
"The message has to be clear and we need to develop and articulate that counter-narrative to fight efficiently against the germs, the ideas that are behind the actions [countering extremist ideology]."
Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney

A member of the Somalian Parliament, Abdulahman Adan Ibrahim, a member of his government's foreign relations committee, accompanied Somali-Canadian Sooyaan Abdi Warsame back to Canada, after he had been wounded in a November 8 bomb attack by Al-Shabab outside the Hotel Maka in Mogadishu. Mr. Warsame is receiving medical treatment for his physical condition relating to the attack, but his mental state is perhaps also under repair.

And Mr. Ibrahim, while in Canada, was warning the Government of Canada of the presence of malign forces of Islamist jihad that have infiltrated the Somalian community in Canada. As a former University of Saskatchewan student who returned to his country to take up a number of sequential cabinet posts he is heavily involved in both countries, with intimate knowledge of both. He is clear enough in his message.

In the mosques and meeting places throughout the country that service the spiritual and social needs of the expatriate Somali community within Canada all mosques have been cast under suspicion for harbouring radical jihadists aligned with Al-Shabab whose purpose is to recruit young Somali men for the sacred cause of resurrecting the true purpose of Islam, returning Somalia to a pure Islamist state, by violent upheaval.

Mr. Ibrahim has not only cautioned the government, but he has also met with members of the Somali-Canadian community, cautioning them to remain "very careful" who was preaching to their children, vulnerable to the appeal of jihad. "So-called clerics", he stressed, were spreading a virally dangerous message to the community's youth. He was himself aware of a number of young men who joined Al-Shabab whom someone in the community had twisted to radical violence and financed their travel to Somalia.

If, then, a member of the Somali government intimately involved in his government's foreign relations, warns of the presence of malign forces of terrorist-inspired jihad presenting themselves at mosques as clerics to be trusted, why then is the Somali community itself not prepared to reject the presence of such dangerous individuals, as well as approaching government to save their sons from their respected preachers?

Additionally, with government security agencies thus warned, should their surveillance activities not identify the presence of such threats to Canadian and Somalian society, and arrange to usher them out of the country as viable, potential dangers to national security? Is, in fact, the Somali community in full cooperation with the authorities whom they plead with to save their sons?