Article content continued

“Therefore, we urge the Canadian public to take heed from the recent history and not allow their war-mongering governments to get themselves entangled in a war of attrition with the Muslims for decades to come; a war that you an never win for we are a nation of brave lion hearts like Salman Ashrafi.”

The author claims to be part of a small circle of Calgary misfits who formed their own prayer group and, after deciding that being Muslim meant fighting jihad, left for Syria to join terror groups such as ISIS, which is now committing mass atrocities in Iraq.

At least two members of the group, Ashrafi and Damian Clairmont, a former mental patient who converted to Islam, have since died. Ashrafi was a Pakistani-Canadian business analyst with Calgary’s Talisman Energy.

His family told the National Post that Ashrafi had quit his job and moved to the Persian Gulf in October 2012, but that he left in December and they lost track of him. Abu Dujana said Ashrafi had gone to Turkey, where he waited for six months to get into Syria.

Last November, he allegedly drove a car filled with explosives into an Iraqi army base north of Baghdad. The attack was part of a wave of ISIS bombings that preceded last week’s assault on Mosul and other northern towns.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird condemned ISIS on Monday for its “brutality” after it posted photos on Twitter showing what it claimed were the mass executions of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers and police captured in recent days.