Main points
- Canada suffered two separate terror attacks this week targeting soldiers and Parliament. Two soldiers lost their lives. The PM was only meters away from an armed terrorist.
- The National Council of Canadian Muslims, or NCCM/CAIR-CAN laid a wreath at the War Memorial, the site of one of the terror attacks.
- Canadian Muslim representatives, fearing backlash, were quick to disavow the killing of "innocent victims"
- The words "innocent victims" is rather ambiguous, since Islam mandates the killing of those who dare to criticize and oppose Islam.
- Muslims everywhere, including "moderates," support and even call for the killing of innocent Jews and Israelis.
- Palestinian leaders fully endorsed the killing of a Jewish baby in Jerusalem this week. Blamed it on the "occupation" and called the terrorist a "hero".
- The pro-Palestinian US State Department reaction to the killing of an American baby in Jerusalem was rather dismissive, telling Israel to keep calm and avoid escalating the situation.
- The NCCM - or CAIR-CAN, as it used to be called - has a disturbing background of litigious activities against critics and even against the Prime Minister.
- According to researchers, the NCCM or CAIR-CAN has always had clear links to Islamist groups.
While remaining silent at Islam's ongoing carnage all over the world, whenever Muslim violence touches countries such as Canada and the United States, Muslim organizations routinely make statements centered on their own victimhood, raising concern about possible backlash against resident Muslims.
And while they often fully endorse violence against Israelis as a means to an end - the dismantlement of Israel - and join the chorus of demonization of that country, they are extremely sensitive to perceived slights to Islam.
That has been the case with the latest cases of Muslim terror in Canada. During the past week TWO Canadian soldiers were murdered by Muslims.
One was deliberately ran over by a car, the other one was shot.
This in the context of many ongoing police investigations of Canadian radical Muslims.
One was deliberately ran over by a car, the other one was shot.
This in the context of many ongoing police investigations of Canadian radical Muslims.
The latest terror attack in Canada
| Michael Zehaf Bibeau |
A one point he was only meters away from where the PM was meeting with other parliamentarians. A shootout with security ensued and Zehaf Bibeau was gunned down.
His father, Bulgasem Zehaf, was an active jihadist who left Canada to return to his native Libya to fight with the Libyan Islamic 'resistance'.
On the day of Cpl Cirillo's murder, Zehaf junior had been denied a passport to travel to Syria, due to his extensive criminal record and fundamentalist Islamic views. As a reaction, Michael Zehaf decided to kill some Canadians instead.
Muslim reaction to terror in Canada
During media interviews, Muslim representatives expressed the usual platitudes of regret about the murders, but most of their concern was focused on how Muslims would be perceived by the general population, and their fears of a possible backlash. By backlash they don't necessarily mean violence, but an increase in wariness of Islam among Canadians - otherwise known as "Islamophobia" - fear of Islam.