{"id":45316,"date":"2014-07-26T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vancouver_sun_police_warned_b-c-_muslim_group_to_watch_burnaby_man_facing_t\/"},"modified":"2014-07-26T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:35:08","slug":"vancouver_sun_police_warned_b-c-_muslim_group_to_watch_burnaby_man_facing_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45316","title":{"rendered":"(Vancouver Sun) Police warned B.C. Muslim group to watch Burnaby man facing terrorism charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/metro\/Police+warned+Muslim+Association+watch+Burnaby+charged\/10063080\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;The authorities contacted us a long, long time ago<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45316\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,207,426,114,155,108,148,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}