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Somalia: Muslim doctor from Canada joins the Islamic State, urges Muslims to “get on the path of jihad”

Jan 24, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

It is taken for granted among mainstream counterterror analysts that poverty causes terrorism, yet there is a steady stream of affluent people who join the jihad. And Dr. Youssef Al Majeerteyn seems somehow to have gotten the idea that jihad involves violence against unbelievers. Where did he learn that? Is his mosque in Canada being investigated? Or are such concerns being waved away with the claim that he was “radicalized on the Internet”?

“ISIS video allegedly shows doctor from Canada urging ‘jihad,’” by Stewart Bell, Global News, January 23, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A video released Wednesday by the ISIS affiliate in Somalia showed a man it said was a doctor from Canada urging supporters to “get on the path of jihad.”

The 15-minute propaganda video introduced him as Dr. Youssef Al Majeerteyn and said he had “died bravely.” A man then spoke to the camera in Canadian-sounding English.

Wearing a stethoscope and seated in front of a rifle and ISIS flag, he encouraged “brothers and sisters” to join the terrorist group, which has a small presence in Somalia.

“What will you say to Allah on the day of judgment when you are asked what have you done for the ummah [community] while your fellow Muslims are being bombed by the kuffar [disbelievers] and murtadeen [apostates] day and night?” he said.

“Get on the path of jihad and book yourself the highest places in jannah [paradise].”

It did not say how he died but the United States military has been conducting airstrikes in Somalia targeting ISIS and Al Shabab, which claimed responsibility for last week’s attack in Nairobi.

Canadian terrorism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam said the video was one of the first to acknowledge that Western foreign fighters were active in the so-called Somalia province of ISIS….

The government’s 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada, released last month, said extremists “inspired by violent Sunni Islamist ideology” remained Canada’s top terrorism threat.

The report said an estimated 190 “extremist travelers” were abroad — about half of them in Syria, Iraq and Turkey while another 60 have returned to Canada….

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Filed Under: Canada, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Somalia Tagged With: poverty causes terrorism, Youssef Al Majeerteyn


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  1. Tom says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 3:51 pm

    Well at least his patients in Canada will be safe now and we taxpayers will not be paying him $10.5 million dollars on his return to Canada. Too bad his death has cheated Trudeau out of a selfie with the returning jihadi hero (Sarc off).

    BUT … I’m sure Trudeau will find a way to eulogize the jihadi’s family as poor victims and tearfully apologize in Parliament to them for his untimely demise at the hands of the imperialists.

    Most Canadians would have a message for both Trudeau and his government and will give it in October. It may involve a middle finger.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 24, 2019 at 11:17 pm

      Too many Canadians are still uninformed and terminally naive Pollyannas regarding the WORLD-CONQUEST intentions of Muslims. They believe all the TAQIYYA like gullible simpletons.

      • Tom says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 12:06 pm

        Mortimer you are correct about Canadians’ naivete about Islam but there are a miriad other reasons why Trudeau et al will receive the one finger salute from Canadians in October. Islam is but one on the list that will see the demise of the Trudeau Liberals.

    • BC says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 5:29 am

      It is all nonsense anyway. If there was a supreme being supposedly omniscient, which I am quite sure there is not. He or she would surely arrange things differently than having one half of his creation trying to exterminate or subjugate the other.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 11:39 pm

        Who is trying to exterminate all unbelievers save Muslims?

      • Rebecca says

        Jan 27, 2019 at 3:07 pm

        So you think God would make sweet and perfect zombies out of all of us if He were real.

  2. Richard says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 4:54 pm

    People always try to say others join such organizations because of poverty. That is only partially true. They join religions (including, sadly, Islam) because they recognize that the world cannot supply happiness. That part is true. The poor may feel “If only I was rich!”; but the rich know that wealth brings nothing but the endless quest of trying to buy satisfaction with their wealth, only to hope that satisfaction is over the next hill, which is never is. An Indian philosopher said “The most valuable of all things is a dead cat because it is absolutely worthless”. Except, of course, in demonstrating the worthless of seeking joy in earthly things. My great joy is in the Holy Trinity: searching and finding new joys each day in the Scriptures. You become submersed in the love of Someone who is always with you. You strive to please Them, not because you want to get into heaven, but because you love them because They only are worthy of your love. I have been blessed to find this in Christ. The good doctor thinks he has found it in Islam. Let us pray the he does not understand what Islam really is.

    • Jayme says

      Jan 24, 2019 at 8:52 pm

      I live in a older suburb of Ottawa 12,000 people live in the community now business make a effort to hire non whites they make up 40% of the population the jobless rates for non whites in this community is very low around 2% but its the non whites that commit most of the crime.

  3. Wellington says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    On a specific note, I would here state that I have no interest whatsoever in going to any Muslim doctor. Indeed, I would go out of my way to avoid doing so.

    Oh, chances are. just calculating the percentages, you’d get the same treatment as from a non-Muslim doctor, but there should be no chance element involved here, no percentages that need to be calculated here, all other things being equal. But there is.

    And Islam, not the non-Muslim, with all of Islam’s voluminous hatred for non-believers as clearly evidenced by sundry Islamic texts and Islamic schools of theology, Sunni or Shiite, (as well as voluminous putrid behavior by educated Muslims towards non-Muslims, never mind the uneducated Muslims’ actions in this regard) is clearly the guilty party here and not those who are not Muslim and skeptical of Islam overall.

    Sorry (not really), any Muslim reading this, but the fault lies with your religion and your deluded followers, not with those who have enough knowledge of Islam to distrust Muslims across the board, an especially important group here being Muslim physicians.
    .

    • mortimer says

      Jan 24, 2019 at 11:21 pm

      Agreeing with W. Here’s the slogan: “It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.”

      If Islam did not contain the TWO ANTI-SOCIAL TEACHINGS 1) Al Walaa wal Baraa and 2) Taqiyya, then more people would trust Muslims.

      It is not the fault of the VICTIMS of Islam that Islam contains those two HEINOUS TEACHINGS. It is the fault of Muslims who do not denounce those evil teachings and do not leave Islam.

  4. sidney penny says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 6:42 pm

    There was a doctor from Australia who also joined Isis and made promotional videos for Isis.

    https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/from-saving-babies-to-terrorist-recruitment-drive/3196592/

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/21/isis-doctor-tareq-kamleh-i-dont-care-about-losing-australian-citizenship

    Dr. Tareq Kamleh seems somehow to have gotten the idea that jihad involves violence against unbelievers. Where did he learn that? Was his mosque/family/community in Australia investigated?

    Or are such concerns being waved away with the claim that Dr Tareq Kamleh was “radicalized on the Internet”?

    As Anne Aly the Muslim politician in Federal Parliament in Australia said the same thing-“radicalized on the Internet”.She has a crybaby history on Jihad Watch

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    This Muslim man who is a doctor from Canada had traveled to Somalia to not only help the sick people of that poverty ridden country with medical aid but also to join in the jihad, with its violence for the advancement of Islam If this man had traveled to Somalia to aid the sick people with medical help then his action would be very commendable. yet he ruined that noble goal by adding the jihad with ISIS as a great part of his Islamic quest. before him many other doctors, MD. had also gone and joined the violent and deadly jihad for Islam .Likewise, other men with a high education in other fields with good careers , not just mire jobs had left it all behind to join and take part in the violence and destruction and killing of Islam’s jihad.

    Many people of the Left Wing including these, in the Obama administration , had a still claim that the a lack of education and lacks of jobs . Such ignorance and error of the part of the left is baffling.

    For the real cause of Muslim terrorism ,in reality ,is not economics, or lack of education, careers of jobs .
    It’s Islam.

  6. Canada still? says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    Watchers of,
    Please go to the Windsor’s, all of Ontario’s Islamic Mosque’s, web sites, and look at all the ” Doctors ” that belong to the Islamic faith, listed as sponcers of such mosques.
    Do you really think they can change, now beining in the North, or are subjects of Islam.
    Tick tick, BINGO, tock, time is up.
    All prisoners of. Just different levels of.
    Rock the hijab!

  7. gravenimage says

    Jan 24, 2019 at 9:44 pm

    Somalia: Muslim doctor from Canada joins the Islamic State, urges Muslims to “get on the path of jihad”
    …………………,

    No one should be surprised by this.

  8. Ronyvo says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 4:34 am

    That is why you do not allow a Muslim doctor to ‘treat you’. He/she would try to hurt you, and they will.

  9. BC says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 4:55 am

    It is all nonsense anyway. If there was a supreme being, allegedly omniscient as well. He or she would arrange things differently and not have one half of his or her creation trying to subjugate or exterminate the other. It was all just a made up plan to enable the Arabs to conquer and pillage half of the known world.

    • Ronyvo says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 4:08 pm

      BC, The God I worship is an extremely loving God. He gave his creation FREEDOM, freedom of worship is a major part. Now it is up to man to chose. He did not leave man stumble through ignorance. From the beginning he gave Adam and Eve this freedom. He warned them if they eat from just ONE tree there will be death. They disobeyed Him and the death sentence was enforced.

      Yet, He did not want to punish all their descendants for their parents’ sin of disobedience. So He came to earth (the Word) and went through all the sufferings we know about. “For God has loved the world”.

      One must not forget that God is just as well.
      Those Arbs (Muslims) chose to follow Satan. One can not expect that they would be treated like the peaceful loving people who follow the only God.

      As I keep saying the reason for Islam to survive that long is due to the fact it was contained in the ME the civilized world did not hear the word Islam.

      Islam is NOT a religion. It is the most vicious SYSTEM ever existed. Islam is way worse than if one combines communism, fascism and Nazism.

  10. Frederick King says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 6:45 am

    Hillary would have imported a couple hundred thousand somalis by now.

  11. infidel says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 11:57 am

    THE TURD must be really happy that his stupid multiculturalism is bearing sweet fruits of Jehaad. VOW!! So this Koranimal can expect a super welcome back to Canada whenever this creature decides that its bloodletting has to shift geography.. Also, this animal can expect million dollar compo too for all the difficulties it had to face while murdering innocents in the ME… And who knows .. a plum Liberal party post too thrown in as a bonus.

  12. ninetyninepct says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    Correction – Western LIBERAL foreign fighters are active in Somalia.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 8:17 pm

      The only foreign fighters I have heard of in Somalia are Jihadists.

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