ISIS Called for Attacks on Canada Last Month, Now it’s Happening

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October 22, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments

 

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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Toward the end of September, ISIS called for attacks on Americans, Canadians and Europeans.

“If you can kill a disbelieving American or European – especially the spiteful and filthy French – or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be,” read the Islamic State statement, translated into English.
The audio recording says it does not matter whether the “disbeliever” is civilian or military.

Canadian authorities went on alert over the threats, but refused to back down.
This week an ISIS supporting Muslim convert killed a Canadian soldier in the name of Allah.

A neighbor told QMI that Couture-Rouleau had grown out his beard and started wearing a turban after converting to Islam a year ago.
A Facebook page under the name Ahmad Rouleau, created in May 2013, included a number of verses from the Qu’ran.

The shooter or shooters in the latest attack are still at large, but it would not be too surprising if this turned out to be more of the same.

Authorities said that one gunman was shot by security forces and at least one was on the loose. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was safely escorted from the scene, his spokesman said.
Inside Parliament, which was in session, a volley of gunfire could be heard for about 10 seconds in a video posted online by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. Sen. George Baker, a member of Parliament, told MSNBC from his office that about 50 shots had been fired.
Gunfire erupted at the National War Memorial, then moved to Centre Block and has also been reported at the Chateau Laurier hotel east of Parliament Hill.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was with Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino in a caucus meeting when the gunfire began, Mr. Fantino told the Toronto Sun Wednesday. Fantino credits a sergeant-at-arms for taking down a gunman. “All the details are not in but the sergeant-at-arms, a former Mountie, is the one that engaged the gunman, or one of them at least, and stopped this,” Fantino said.

An attack by multiple gunmen on such targets strongly suggests terrorists and it doesn’t seem too likely that anyone except a Muslim terrorist group would be likely to have launched such an attack.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.