Eleven of the people who are the focus of the report — six females and five males — attended the same school, Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve. The report estimates that up to 250 Canadians have travelled to Syria and Iraq, including up to 30 from Quebec. The report into the Quebec cases of radicalization recommends the federal government do so as a way to protect both the radicalized individual and the Canadian public. In the cases that were reviewed in the report, charismatic religious leaders, friends and acquaintances—“agents of radicalization” — used these debates to support their claims that Muslims were being persecuted. They eventually dropped out of their classes in the middle of the term, despite being otherwise model students, the report says.

Source: thestar August 20, 2016 01:14 UTC