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Jibril Ibrahim and Somali Canadian Cultural Society Edmonton

video: He says community members are on the lookout for anything suspicious, according to Huffington Post Canada. But Ibrahim said he doesn't think anyone would carry out threats in the group name. "We don't anticipate anybody acting on any of those threats at all," he said Monday. "Those kind of groups, to come out and use our name, was kind of insulting to us and that how we feel." The video from the Somalian Islamic extremist group calls for attacks on malls in Canada, the United States and Britain A brief reference to West Edmonton Mall is near the end of a 76-minute documentary-style video about the 2013 attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed. Jibril Ibrahim, president of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton, says he spoke with police about a purported al-Shabab video released on the weekend calling for attacks on various malls. Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for that attack. "If just a handful of mujahedeen fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, then imagine what a dedicated mujahedeen in the West could do to the American or Jewish-owned shopping centres across the world," the masked man reads. "What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada Or in London Oxford Street " West Edmonton Mall and Mall of America were developed by the Ghermezians, Jewish immigrants to Canada from Iran. They say "there is no evidence at this time of any specific or imminent threat to Canadians." Ibrahim said al-Shabab had support in Somalia during the middle of the last decade when Ethiopian troops moved into the country, but that support evaporated when people began to realize how violent the group is. RCMP are investigating the "exact contents and authenticity" of the alleged al-Shabab video. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.