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ISIL and universities: should SFU students be worried?

Chibok Secondary School, Nigeria, 276. Garissa University College, Kenya, 142.  Peshawar school, Pakistan, 132. These figures represent the number of student victims from terrorist attacks taking place in their own schools over the last few years. The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the recent explosion in New York which left 29 people injured, make the US and Canada fear for random attacks in public spaces. But should Canadian students be worried about the risk of terrorism at their own universities? Canada, along with many other countries, has been explicitly threatened by ISIL. According…

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