Hussein Hamdani, a former member of the federal government’s national security advisory panel, has intervened in more than 10 cases of Muslims who wanted to join terror groups. The insight he’s gained from these experiences cuts deep into the problem of the radicalization of Canadians.
Here, he explains to the Herald’s Dylan Robertson, the importance of legitimate grievances of the community — from the war in Syria to racism in Canada — and the way extremists use those grievances to radicalize westerners.
