Canada: Muslim woman who was identified as Islamic State recruiter herself hoped to attain “martyrdom”
APR 7, 2020 4:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
“An Edmonton woman has been identified by intelligence officials as an alleged ISIS supporter and Al Shabaab member and who recruited a young Canadian to travel to Syria….Instructions on how to build a bomb were found on her computer, according to the documents, which also allege she is ‘committed’ to ISIS and ‘was/is a senior member’ of Al Shabaab, the Somali terrorist group.”
Yet Ayan Jama still remains uncharged and at large: “She continues to live in Edmonton but two sources said she had remarried and was working to turn her life around.” And she is not even close to being the only one: “The government says there are currently about 60 such people in the country. Few have faced charges. Internal government files have described the challenges of prosecuting them due to the difficulty of proving what they did outside Canada.”
In 2018, Breitbart shed light on leaked documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that showed that “the intelligence service is far more concerned with Islamic terrorism behind closed doors than the left-wing Trudeau government will admit in public.” One of the documents contained a report from a committee hearing; it stated: “The Service has never before faced a terrorist threat of the scope, scale and complexity of Sunni Islamist-inspired terrorism.”
It was also revealed a year earlier that dozens of jihadis were walking free in Canada, yet authorities won’t charge them.
“Edmonton woman ‘committed’ to ISIS ‘facilitated extremist activities,’ secret documents allege,” by Stewart Bell, Global News, April 3, 2020:
An Edmonton woman has been identified by intelligence officials as an alleged ISIS supporter and Al Shabaab member and who recruited a young Canadian to travel to Syria, Global News has learned.
Top Secret documents publicly disclosed in court, and obtained by Global News, also allege that Ayan Jama, 31, “has indicated a desire to attain martyrdom.”
Instructions on how to build a bomb were found on her computer, according to the documents, which also allege she is “committed” to ISIS and “was/is a senior member” of Al Shabaab, the Somali terrorist group.
“She has participated in the recruitment and radicalization of a Canadian, whose eventual travel overseas to Syria was encouraged and partially financed by her,” according to the documents.
Her husband, Mohamed Sakr, was a “senior figure” in Al Shabaab (AS). He was stripped of British citizenship by U.K. authorities and killed in a 2012 drone strike.
Despite the government’s allegations, Jama has not been charged with any terrorism offences. Her lawyer declined to comment, but the documents indicate she has denied any involvement in terrorism.
She continues to live in Edmonton but two sources said she had remarried and was working to turn her life around.
The explosive allegations identify Jama as a returnee — someone who has come back to Canada after having participated in terrorist activities overseas.
The government says there are currently about 60 such people in the country. Few have faced charges. Internal government files have described the challenges of prosecuting them due to the difficulty of proving what they did outside Canada.
Concerns about Jama’s alleged past are detailed in government documents filed in a highly-secretive case before the Federal Court that centres around her attempt to renew her Canadian passport…. |
