Al Qaeda Recruiting Canadian Youth-CBC Interviews Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin 03/18/10

March 18th, 2010 INTERVIEW Recruiting Canadian Youth: Muslim leaders in Toronto are reacting with sadness and frustration today at the news that a young man from Toronto has been killed, apparently fighting for an extremist group linked with Al-Qaeda in Somalia. Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim was an English major at the University of Toronto until he left the city a year and a half ago, and disappeared. According to a website posting this week by the insurgency group Al-Shabab, the young man was killed in battle. There is a YouTube video, as well as a printed message. The message praises Ibrahim, and calls on other Canadian youth to follow in his footsteps. We spoke with Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin, an Imam here in Toronto who works with Muslim youth. He formed a foundation four years ago aimed at steering young people away from extremist ideology.


For more information about the Imam's program working with youth, visit the ASFC website http://alsunnahfoundation.org

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