Canadian Jihadis

"Know very well that for every single sellouts [sic] like Tarek Fatah or Mubin Shaikh, we are gaining hundreds of brave Damian Clairmont and Andre Poulin from amongst you who are willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of Allah."
"[Members of the group (former Calgary youths who left for Syria)] have already made it to various fronts of jihad by the grace of Allah and some have even been awarded with martyrdom like the brother Mustafa [Clairmont] while the rest of us are waiting for that honour."
Abu Dujana al-Muhajir, jihadist, former Calgarian

"I say hallelujah. I urge all Canadian Islamists to follow the footsteps of this jihadi and leave Canada, permanently by burning their passports on arrival in Syria, Somalia, Pakistan or Afghanistan or whatever jihadi hellhole they wish to live in, but leave us alone and stop being the parasites that you are, eating away at Canada like termites."
Tarek Fatah, author, radio show host, Muslim anti-Islamist

"[The group are] losers with no prospect of meaningful employment and even marriage. [They] depict Islam as a religion of terrorism; in reality, they are not even Muslims but parade around in its garb."
Mubin Shaikh, former undercover agent, witness in trial of Toronto 18 Terrorists

"There is no reward for this from Allah. Their war against innocent Muslims in Syria is not jihad at all. They are committing crimes and will be punished by Allah eternally in their graves."
Said Imam Soharwardy, founder, Islamic Supreme Council of Canada

Imam Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada   Photograph by: Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald

 

Abu Dujana, also known as Abu Turab was/is a naturalized Canadian citizen. He wrote a tribute to Damian Clairmont, a troubled young man who converted to Islam and from there found solace for his sociopathic mind. He presented as prime fodder for indoctrination into fundamentalist Islam and from there, commitment to jihad with a view to finding a place for himself as a martyr. One can only surmise he discovered that satisfaction when he was killed as his Islamist militia battled another.

In a blog post, Abu Dujana al-Muhajir railed against Canadian Muslims who spoke out forcefully against extremist Islamist violence. He named in particular writer Irshad Manji, and Imams Muhammad Robert Heft and Syed Soharwardy, as "deviant" in their piety to Islamic values, principles and politics. Militants, he averred, would soon outnumber them. He lionized the two converts who became radicalized and died in Syria.

He wrote that jihad was becoming as Canadian as maple syrup among Muslim youth looking for meaning in their lives and a commitment to demonstrate their extreme fealty to Islam through jihad. Mr. Fatah in response to the post, spoke of him as an "Islamist promoter of a death cult", but found it most encouraging that he and others like him subscribing to fanatical extremism found martyrdom so appealing, so much so that he encouraged them to depart Canada post-haste to be enabled to die for their noble cause.

Todd Korol for National Post The prayer centre musallah at 8th and 8th south west in Calgary, Alberta, April 24, 2014. The storefront Islamic centre in downtown Calgary where Damian Clairmont spent much of his time before leaving for Syria.

 

That Abu Dikama wrote that he and Damian Clairmont had started a prayer group at the Downtown 8th & 8th Musallah, a Calgary Islamic mosque of unprepossessing appearance but known to have hosted such jihad-seeking individuals, speaks much of the need for Muslims themselves to be more aware and to launch their own preventative strategies to convince young Muslim men that their track toward martyrdom does not represent true Islamic values as they are practised in Canada.

A "brother", wrote Abu Dujana, had introduced his friend Damian Clairmont to the incendiary lectures of Al-Qaeda-supporting idealogue Anwar Al Awlaki, an American who had become self-radicalized and who broadcast his virulent jihadist messages in English to attract the notice of North American Muslims. When a U.S. drone killed Al Awlaki in Yemen, it was a subject of much controversy that the U.S. would target an American citizen.

The RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service have been investigating a discrete group of Calgary men known to be fighting in Syria. CSIS has revealed that to their knowledge about thirty Canadians have taken leave of Canada to join extremist groups in Syria. Their return is not hopefully anticipated.