Adventure Travel to Turkey

"If he had spoken to me of such a thing, I would have wanted to execute him myself, sir. I would never have accepted it."
"I brought up my sons saying 'You are a Quebecer, you are Canadian. We don't spit on the country that welcomes us.' My son was well-raised, a model (citizen), until he disappeared."
"I work from morning to night. I can't sleep beside his bed to watch whether he is connected to the Internet."
Father of Bilel Zouaidia, Algerian immigrant to Canada

What Mr. Zouaidia did do when he became aware that something seemed not quite right with his son, 18, after he had taken lessons in Arabic and the Qu'ran, at a local college, was to take his son's passport into his own possession. Without that passport his son, he reasoned, even if he felt he had a compelling reason to leave Canada and embark on a trip abroad, would not be able to.

And what Bilel Zouaidia then did was report that his papers had been stolen. And he then, as the law permits him to do, under such circumstances, applied for a new passport. Since then, College de Maisonneuve said through its spokesperson that it was taking immediate steps to cancel a three-year rental agreement with Adil Charkaoui, under the auspices of the Centre communautaire islamique de l'Est de Montreal.

This is the same Adil Charkaoui who had been under a cloud of suspicious activities tied in to Islamist terrorism who denied all charges against him, and through a lack of evidence had been declared officially innocent of those charges. And well he may be, but this new turn of events does cast suspicions somewhere.

"Before he left, he was more dedicated to practising Islam than he was to school. And he was a brilliant student."

At a news conference, Brigette Desjardins, speaking for College de Maisonneuve explained that the contract's cancellation resulted from the impression that the instructions received by students seeking information about the Qu'ran and learning to speak Arabic contravened the school's "values". If they did any such thing, then they must by extension also be contravening the values of Canadian society as an entirety.

The fact that recently released information is that no fewer than four men and two women were reported to have disappeared since January 16, when they are said to have boarded a fight to Turkey for the obvious enough goal of crossing from Turkey into Syria, to take up their new lives as jihadi fighters with Islamic State, certainly supports that impression.

"They took my son. I hate them. We are miserable. They put a hole in his head and brainwashed him."

That six that were mentioned do not, evidently describe the entire story, since authorities in the province believe that other young Montrealers whose numbers were unspecified, have also gone missing, with the understanding that they too have joined the Islamic State whose missionary zeal in impressing young Muslims with their sacred obligation to jihad has been picked up by impressionable and restless 'youth'.

Shayma Senouci, one of the missing young Montrealers is shown in a Twitter profile photo.  (TWITTER)