I believe that the rise of extremism in Europe began around the same time that the Wahhabi Saudi ideology was being promoted on the backs of billions of petrodollars.
The situation in Europe is different from North America because of colonization, socio-economic situations, where especially in France the immigrant Muslim communities were highly ghettoized. There were large issues of poverty that also played into this. That poverty becomes one of the breeding grounds for extremism, where mercenaries prey on the minds of young people who are disfranchised by their own governments. This has been going on over a period of time.
Today I believe—and I don't have valid proof of this but we have read it—that there are areas in Europe, in Belgium, France, Norway, that are sharia zones where non-Muslims are not allowed to even enter. We have been looking at this for a long time, including in the United Kingdom, where the immigrants who came maybe 60 or 70 years ago did not integrate or adapt to the new land they came to and became subject to the kind of ideology and mercenaries that I have mentioned.
There is a book right now called Radical, by a British author, Maajid Nawaz. It is his personal story of how, born and brought up in England, he was recruited into the jihad. It is an eye-opening book for everyone to read because it tells you how even in western societies this can happen.
We don't want this to happen in Canada because our youth are at risk as well.