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Islamist Terrorism, ISIL-connected Or Not

Video posted on social media showed Hussain clad in black, firing at least three shots into a cafe or restaurant. (@ArielAnise/Twitter)

"The executor of the attack in the city of Toronto in Southeastern Canada this past Sunday evening is from the soldiers of the Islamic State and he carried out the attack in response to appeals to target citizens of coalition countries."
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

"At this stage, we have no evidence to support these claims. Since Sunday evening, all areas of the Toronto Police Service have been involved in this investigation. We have received assistance from law enforcement partners at every level and I have been updated regularly."
"Accurate information about this investigation will only be released by the Toronto Police Service. We will continue to explore every investigative avenue including interviewing those who knew Mr. Hussain, reviewing his online activity, and looking into his experiences with mental health."
Toronto Chief of Police, Mark Saunders

"We have to be cautious on this. There are reasons to be skeptical."
"In this case, they haven't given any new information, there is no proof of a pledge of allegiance and so far, national security authorities have said there is no national security nexus."
"They [ISIL claims] are now much less cautious and much less disciplined [in the accuracy of their claims of involvement and credit-taking for international atrocities]."
Dr. Stephanie Carvin, professor of international relations, Carleton University

Dr. Carvin's expertise lies in domestic and international security, terrorism and technology; hers is, of necessity, an academic approach to interpreting motivation and involvement, leaning heavily on her research, which is to be expected. What those critical of ISIL claims of responsibility fail to acknowledge, however, is that it hardly matters whether their incitement to action in reaching out to Muslims ensconced in Western societies to do their duty in jihad links them not as motivators but as captains of the team.

In practical essence, it hardly matters whether or not a convinced Islamist clasping the fixation of jihad and martyrdom has sworn allegiance to ISIL. They served their purpose in demonstrating how it can be done, in offering encouragement and praise, urging the simplicity of simply attacking wherever they happen to be located to do their duty to the faith of universal Islam. To the corrupted minds of psychopathic Islamists for whom dedication to jihad motivates them to devote their lives to serving Islam, what the West views as terror, the jihadis grasp as courageous defiance.

As for the police and political authorities, their concern is to release as little incriminating-Islam information as possible for a twofold purpose; to uphold public security and minimize social backlash, and to suppress their own responsibility in helping through their stupendous lack of awareness and sense of justification in forestalling such atrocities. The news media, skilled in interpretive reportage and investigative journalism give this one a pass. They publish in support of the authorities' strenuous back-bending to direct the public thought away from 'blaming Islam'.

Julianna Kozis, left, and Reese Fallon, right, were killed in the shooting. (Toronto Police Service/Facebook)

Stewart Bell who had over a decade ago published a book on Islam's violent infiltration in Canada has now co-written a piece pointing out that Faisal Hussain, the 29-year-old loner with the "million-dollar smile" who stalked the Danforth on Sunday night likely obtained the handgun he used to such great effect, shooting 15 innocent people strolling Danforth Avenue or sitting in its many cafes, indoors and outdoors on a lovely summer evening, from his brother, a dealer in illegal guns. His brother who was also a drug dealer.

Terry Glavin, writing for Postmedia, has traded in his normally astute observations on his loathing for China, to berate the readers of his peerlessly limpid column on compassion lacking for the family of the Hussains who have undergone much tragedy in their lives, losing a daughter in a car accident, mourning an older son lying in a coma in a Toronto hospital. An enormous cache of the deadly carfentanil was discovered along with 33 guns at the home of a surety with whom Fahad Hussain was living while on bail for criminal drug charges.

A former high school teacher has explained why it was that he contacted police, concerned that Faisal Hussain was openly planning at some future date to commit murder because he thought it was "cool". A former schoolmate at the same high school, spoke of her horror, leading her to remonstrate with Faisal Hussain, when he revealed he wanted to kill his mother. While allegations of mental health problems surrounding this man have been grasped by authorities in his defense, it is far likelier that he was just a plain old psychopath imbued with passion for jihad.

"If the people cannot find it within themselves to discharge the same duty of solidarity and compassion in respect of the Hussain family, to enclose them as warmly within the embrace of their empathy as the families of Reese Fallon and little Julianna Kozis, then they should be ashamed of themselves", writes Glavin. This sanctimonious display of generous compassion, equating the deaths of two innocent young girls at the hands of a murderous felon with the anguish felt by their parents and that of the Hussain parents is grossly inappropriate.

Glavin faults Ezra Levant for his perfectly logical query whether police had deliberately withheld the name of the perpetrator of violence, mayhem and murder on Sunday evening. To withhold the name or any identifying feature of such terrorists has become a common tactic in Europe where many countries have been blessed with the settlement of huge numbers of Muslims; Germany, France and Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Netherlands come to mind, where suppression of Muslim crime sprees is now a feature of daily life.

Canada is heading in the very same direction. Protection of Islam as a religion of peace. Any who question that sensitivity on the part of government at every level are put in their place as disgraces to Canada, clearly "Islamophobic" in nature. And nor can it be pointed out that increasing numbers of Muslims in Western societies comes in lock-step with an increasing number of anti-Semitic attacks infusing society. Much less that gangs, guns, drugs and crime appear irresistible to a sizeable proportion of Muslim youth.

Labels: Crisis Management, Political Realities, Terrorism, Toronto

posted by Pieface @ Friday, July 27, 2018