Undercover Jihadi

Introduction

There’s a book, Undercover Jihadi, that isn’t out yet – we have to wait until October 31^st.  But it could be a corker of a story…

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Publication Date: October 31, 2014

Mubin Shaikh, a Canadian born, Indian descent, Muslim grew up torn between two identities—that of an ultra conservative Indian boy who attended madrasa and learned to recite the Koran by heart and a modern Western kid who dated girls, partied and did drugs—much to his family’s horror. After getting caught for holding a wild house party when his parents were out of town, Mubin disavowed his Western self and entered into a strict Islamic mindset, joined the Tablighi Jamaat and traveled to Pakistan and India for pure Islamic enlightenment. There, a chance meeting with the Taliban opened the possibility to Mubin of joining the militant jihad.

Upon his return to Canada, Mubin joined a group of Muslim extremists and recalls celebrating the 9-11 attacks, an event that prompted him to travel again, this time to Syria to become involved in the “great jihad” – the Muslim version of the final apocalypse in “the land of Sham and the two rivers.” Thankfully, Mubin was taken off the terrorist trajectory by a sheik in Syria who gently taught him that his violent interpretations of Islam were misinformed and would lead him to destruction.

Returning again to Canada, Mubin learned that his friend, a former madrasa student, was accused of terrorism. Trying to clear his friend’s name, Mubin ended up volunteering with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He went undercover and went on to also work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to infiltrate what became known as the ‘”Toronto 18”—a terrorist group made up of Canadian and American Muslims bent on punishing U.S. and Canadian citizens for their involvement in the war in Afghanistan.

In his undercover role as a fellow jihadi, Mubin learned that the “Toronto 18” was plotting to detonate truck bombs around the city of Toronto, behead the Prime Minister, and storm the Parliament Building with a death wish. As the group moved closer and closer to dangerously activating their plots Mubin, posing as a committed cadre, tracked their actions until they were ultimately arrested.

At that time, Mubin found the Muslim community refused to believe the truth and condemn the terrorists, but instead turned on him—accusing him of entrapment. In the ensuing months Mubin struggled to keep up his courage to credibly testify as the main fact witness, leading to the convictions of eleven of the aspiring terrorists—three who are currently serving life sentences.

Mubin Shaikh is one of the very few people in the world to have actually been undercover in a homegrown terror cell. Because of this courageous experience, Shaikh is considered a primary source for the study of militant jihadi radicalization and terrorism by academics worldwide and remains an active trainer of military and security intelligence on violent Islamist extremists.

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