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Martin
Couture-Rouleau, shown here in an undated Facebook photo, was shot to
death after running his car into two Canadian Forces soldiers.
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A year ago, when the words ISIS and ISIL had not yet entered our
vocabulary, writing
in this space I asked the question, "Have Islamist jihadis declared
world war?"
Well, now it seems this war has come to the shores of Canada with an
attack by a follower of Islamic State.
On Monday, Martin Ahmad Couture-Rouleau, a Caucasian convert to Islam,
deliberately drove into two Canadian Forces soldiers in
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, near Montreal, before he was shot dead after a
police chase.
One of the soldiers died Tuesday in hospital while the second is now
considered out of danger.
The jihadist who committed this act of terrorism was known on Twitter
as "Abu Ibrahim AlCanadi," where he used the ISIL flag as his
picture.
Among the 53 people he followed were supporters of ISIL, who propagate
jihadist ideology and believe in imposing Sharia law as the supreme law
on earth.
If there was any doubt about Couture-Rouleau's motives, it ended when
Quebec's TVA Nouvelles reported Couture-Rouleau called a 911 dispatcher
and explained he was "acting in the name of Allah."
Lost in the horror of these murders that some are still referring to
as a "possible" terrorist attack, was the news on Saturday that
three Muslim girls of Somali heritage, who wanted to travel to the
Mideast and join ISIS in Syria as wives of jihadis, were back home and
free.
The Toronto Star reported
the teenage girls' parents had tipped off the RCMP, who arranged to
apprehend the teens in Turkey and return them to Toronto.
What was particularly disturbing was that instead of arresting and
charging these three ISIS recruits, the RCMP simply sent them back into
the community, under the care of their parents.
The Star quoted their families' lawyer saying, "The parents felt
comfortable in contacting police to prevent the young girls from ruining
their lives."
He said Somali community leaders are happy the RCMP has not prosecuted
them and hopes, instead, to glean intelligence from the case which will
stop others.
In my view, this is multiculturalism taken to its worst extreme.
Twenty years ago, would the RCMP have released teenage IRA recruits
back into the care of their parents?
We now have three teenage girls who apparently believe in the ISIS
doctrine of armed jihad and who flew out of the country to join it,
walking freely about our city, while the rest of us have no information
as to who they are or what to look out for.
As someone who has received death threats from Islamists as late as
two weeks ago, and who in 2011 received a threat from a teenage Somali
girl when I was hospitalized, perhaps I am a bit paranoid.
However, after Couture-Rouleau used a car as his weapon to kill his
conception of the "infidel", I have every reason to be.
After all, I have been called an "apostate" in the past by
Islamists, an offence punishable by death in Islam.
What is also worrisome is that no other newspaper, TV or radio host
(other than myself) has followed up on the story of the three ISIS
recruits.
I asked the three major Toronto mayoral candidates if they were aware
the RCMP had not charged or arrested these three young ISIS recruits
living in their city.
Not one has answered the question.
Tarek S. Fatah is a
founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, a columnist at
Toronto Sun, host of a Sunday afternoon talk show on Toronto's
NewsTalk1010 AM Radio, and a Robert J. and Abby B. Levine Fellow at the
Middle East Forum. He is the author of two award-winning books: Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic
State and The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel
Muslim Anti-Semitism.
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