KABUL: (Middle East Press) A 23-year-old young Canadian woman has reportedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria after purportedly being radicalized while studying religion online.
The woman’s sister told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the woman had taken an online course to study the Koran, but reportedly learned how to get to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa in Syria to join the extremist group.
Canada’s spy agency warned the family that their daughter had been “interacting with people they thought were dangerous and were influencing her in a negative way,” according to the sister.
But the warning, she said, was “very unclear” and not observed in time.
The report comes as the Canadian government is set to grant sweeping powers to its spy agency to foil terror plots and disrupt suspected extremists’ travel plans, such as preventing them from boarding a plane to join a banned group abroad.
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