{"id":2630,"date":"2014-12-08T06:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:41:38","slug":"purported-islamic-state-video-calls-for-attacks-on-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2014\/12\/07\/purported-islamic-state-video-attacks-canadians_n_6284326.html\">Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">OTTAWA &#8211; A slickly produced video released on Sunday urged Muslims to launch indiscriminate attacks against Canadians, similar to those carried out in October in Ottawa and Montreal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The SITE Intelligence Group, an American based company that monitors trends within the global jihadist movement, said the video was produced by the Islamic State and the Levant. It was also been distributed on Twitter and jihadi forums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">On the video a man, who says he is a Canadian and identifies himself as &#8220;Abu Anwar al-Canadi,&#8221; urges his Muslim countrymen to follow the example of Martin Couture-Rouleau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The National Post identified the man as John Maguire, a former University of Ottawa student who converted to Islam and became radicalized before leaving Canada last year. The newspaper cited friends and family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The 23-year-old is among dozens of Canadians under RCMP investigation after allegedly making their way to Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians. OTTAWA &#8211; A slickly produced video released on Sunday urged Muslims to launch indiscriminate attacks against Canadians, similar to those carried out in October in Ottawa and Montreal. The SITE Intelligence Group, an American based company that monitors trends within the global jihadist movement, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1239,445,446,447,522],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-is","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}