Police had warned the B.C. Muslim Association to keep an eye on Hasib Yusufzai long before the Burnaby man was charged with leaving Canada to join a terrorist group in Syria.
“The authorities contacted us a long, long time ago about this individual, saying that they were concerned about him and just kind of warning us,” Aasim Rashid, a spokesman for the association, said in an interview Friday. His group is the largest Sunni Muslim organization in the province, representing about 80,000 Sunnis.
Yusufzai, 25, had attended the Al-Salaam mosque in Burnaby before leaving Canada in January, but Rashid said he was not a member. RCMP allege he left the country to join an group of Islamist fighters and charged him on July 17 with acting “for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.”
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(Vancouver Sun) Police warned B.C. Muslim group to watch Burnaby man facing terrorism charges
Police had warned the B.C. Muslim Association to keep an eye on Hasib Yusufzai long before the Burnaby man was charged with leaving Canada to join a terrorist group in Syria.
“The authorities contacted us a long, long time ago about this individual, saying that they were concerned about him and just kind of warning us,” Aasim Rashid, a spokesman for the association, said in an interview Friday. His group is the largest Sunni Muslim organization in the province, representing about 80,000 Sunnis.
Yusufzai, 25, had attended the Al-Salaam mosque in Burnaby before leaving Canada in January, but Rashid said he was not a member. RCMP allege he left the country to join an group of Islamist fighters and charged him on July 17 with acting “for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.”
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