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“The attempt to get me to fall for the same thing just made me shake my head,” said Boudreau, who has branded herself an advocate against homegrown radicalization, and has met with officials across Canada and abroad to advance her cause.

“At least it means I must be getting to somebody enough that they are trying to find another way to get me to see their point of view, so that I don’t continue what I’m doing.”

In his blog, Abu Dujana takes aim at Canada’s “Zionist prime minister” who he claimed supports the “continued crimes of Israel.” He says foreign fighters such as himself and Clairmont took up arms against a “global system of oppression” in which “innocent men, women and children are pleading for our help.”

He rejects the notion that westerners waging Jihad have been brainwashed, insisting they had simply been “reading the Qur’an with an open heart and then watching the news of global events happening in front of our very eyes.

“In the end, I pray that Allah opens your heart to Islam so that you may live a life of honour and dignity, and die as a Muslim and join your beloved son Damian in paradise (we ask Allah to accept his martyrdom),” Abu Dujana writes to Boudreau.

“And I pray that Allah brings forth more soldiers of justice and nobility like brother Damian Clairmont to give victory to Islam and Muslims over the nation of disbelievers.”

Boudreau recently returned from Europe, where she met with three other mothers whose sons had also died fighting alongside radical Islamic groups. One of those sons was killed just two months before Clairmont in the same Syrian town northwest of Aleppo.