Did the Ottawa jihadi’s father do jihad in Libya?

Globe and Mail:

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His father’s history offers a hint of what Mr. Bathurst was concerned about. In 2011, a Montrealer named “Belgasem Zahef” was quoted in a Washington Times dispatch from the front in Libya, where he had travelled to join the rebel fight. The man described being detained at the Zawiyah oil terminal, where he witnessed torture.

At the Burnaby mosque, Mr. Bathurst said his friend’s “erratic” behaviour – he did not elaborate – caused frictions with the elders at the house of worship, who asked him to stop attending prayers. At that time, Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau was living in a barely furnished single-room apartment.

Mr. Bathurst said he recalls his friend being arrested at the mosque a few years ago after bizarrely calling police to tell them about a crime he had committed many years before.

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H/T Andrew Bostom

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20 Replies to “Did the Ottawa jihadi’s father do jihad in Libya?”

  1. mom’s bio + pic :

    Director of the Immigration Division for the Eastern Region. This position included managing the delivery of the Immigration Division (ID) program and advising ID members on technical and legal issues.

    On April 1, 2009, Susan Bibeau was appointed Director General of the Immigration Division, after performing those duties on an acting basis since July 2008. Effective December 15, 2012, the Director General of the ID became known as the Deputy Chairperson of the ID.

    http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/Eng/BoaCom/bio/Pages/BioIdSi.aspx

    • Informative and worthwhile, even if the person who made it doesn’t seem entirely clear that there is no contradiction between being a greedy pirate preying on Christian ships and being a religious Muslim extending the dominance of Islam.

      I see that was the third U.S. navy ship to be named Enterprise.

      • Did you note that Jefferson was the man who sent in the military, he is one of the ones the isolationists talk about when they argue against fighting anyone before they invade the US.

    • Something less inspiring, a family from Malaysia by the look of it glorying in the victory of Islam on a visit to the Panorama 1453 Historical Museum in Istanbul, with its 360 degree painting showing Ottomans breaking through Constantinople’s great wall.

    • The best place to watch a feeding frenzy is seldom standing waist-deep in the middle of it.

      • I know, they told the idiots to get out of the water but they stayed in, since they will eventually be injured or killed by their stupidity think of it as evaluation in action.

  2. Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘abducts more women and girls’ (BBC, Oct 23, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29740204

    “Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say.

    The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say they took place a day after the military announced it had agreed a ceasefire with the Boko Haram group.

    The government hopes the Islamist group will free more than 200 girls seized in April as part of negotiations.

    Boko Haram has not confirmed the truce….”

  3. Deadly attacks hit Quetta city in Pakistan (BBC, Oct 23, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29735806

    “At least 13 people have been killed and 29 injured in attacks in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.

    Eight Shias were killed by gunmen who fired on a bus at a market. A ninth was shot dead in another attack soon after.

    Elsewhere in the city a bomb attack on a security convoy left two people dead.

    Later two more people were killed when a rally by one of Pakistan’s biggest religious parties, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), was bombed. Party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman was unhurt…”

  4. Saudi Arabia: Women jailed for supporting al-Qaeda (BBC, Oct 23, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29741858

    “Four women in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to six to 10 years in prison for supporting al-Qaeda and preparing their sons to wage jihad.

    Saudi state media said the women were also found guilty of accessing blocked internet sites and downloading “audio-video material” related to fighting,

    Saudi Arabia has introduced strong penalties to try and prevent people joining jihadist groups.

    Citizens who travel abroad to fight face sentences of up to 20 years.

    Authorities in 2011 established special tribunals to try Saudis and foreigners accused of belonging to al-Qaeda or of involvement in deadly attacks in the kingdom from 2003-2006.

    The kingdom’s highest religious authority has also urged young Muslims not to be influenced by calls for jihad.

    Saudi state media reported in August that the country’s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdul Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, described al-Qaeda and Islamic State jihadists as “enemy number one”.

    The latest convictions come as Saudi Arabia and its neighbours participate in US-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.”