'A University of Manitoba Muslim student leader says CSIS investigators told him that three students who have disappeared in Pakistan joined the jihad.
"They specifically said they are going for the jihad, they are going for religious fighting," Shariq Kidwai, former president of the U of M Muslim Students Association, said Friday.
Kidwai said Canadian Security and Intelligence Services investigators interviewed him about U of M students Ferid Imam, Muhannad al-Farekh, and Miawand Yar shortly after he became association president in 2008. They disappeared in 2007.
"I was told they (the three students) wrote some notes, which were very discouraging: we are saying final goodbyes to our families, we won't see them again," Kidwai said the federal agents told him.
The Globe and Mail reported Friday of an international search for the three young men involving CSIS, the RCMP and the FBI. The three young men flew to Pakistan in 2007 without notifying their families, according to the Globe.
"Ferid, he was president before me," said Kidwai, who did not know the three young men very well, but encountered them while attending daily prayers on campus.
"When I was president, CSIS, they called and asked if I know these three persons," Kidwai said.
When the agents interviewed him face-to-face, Kidwai said he told them, "I know them, they were coming here," he said, indicating the campus Muslim prayer room outside which Kidwai spoke Friday.
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While Muslim students gather together on campus for prayers and for social discussions, "We do not know what is in your heart," he said.'
These stories are becoming all too common.
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