A Word to the Wise

This article in The Globe and Mail reports on several young Somali-Canadians who recently disappeared without a word of warning to anyone and are believed to have joined al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist movement in Somalia. At least two of the young men were born in Canada and all were educated in Canadian public schools from primary school onwards. Their families are bewildered by their sons’ disappearance, and the only foreshadowing they can think of is the chastisement some received for not being sufficiently religious. 

Clearly, these men’s schooling in Ontario public schools did nothing to foster their cultural assimilation. The same thing goes for the Toronto 18, one of whom has now been convicted and four of whom who have pleaded guilty to conspiring to attack targets in Ontario in the name of Islam. 

In sharp contrast, there has never been a whisper of anything amiss with any of the tens of thousands of students who currently attend or have graduated from one of Ontario’s 24 Islamist private schools. Perhaps the world would be a safer place if more students could attend Islamic schools.

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