This is their explanation: the withholding was for “security purposes”: “In order to maintain the integrity of the ongoing investigation, the RCMP was limited in the amount of information it was able to publicly release.”
That’s a lot of hooey. There is nothing relating to security in the withheld sections — only Islamic prayers. They cut them out so that the public wouldn’t be in danger of getting the idea that Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack had anything to do with Islam. For whatever reason, Canadian authorities, as well as those in the United States and Europe, are determined above all else — even security considerations — to keep their people ignorant and complacent regarding the jihad threat. This cannot, and will not, end well.
“Canada Releases Full Video of Gunman Before He Ambushed Parliament Last Year,” by Justin Ling, Vice, May 29, 2015:
Canada’s federal police service has finally released the full cellphone video taken by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau moments before the attacker stormed Parliament Hill in October and murdered a soldier.
In it, the 32-year-old Canadian-born man prays in fluent Arabic and asks for forgiveness.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police released part of the video in March, which shows Zehaf-Bibeau sitting in his car, just a few hundred meters from where he would begin his attack, withholding 18 seconds, at the time, for security purposes.
“In order to maintain the integrity of the ongoing investigation, the RCMP was limited in the amount of information it was able to publicly release,” the federal police service said in a statement today. “We are now at a point in our investigation where we are able to share the full, unedited version of the video.”
Recent reports from the Canadian Press quoted sources who claimed that Zehaf-Bibeau named individuals of Middle Eastern origin and called for fresh attacks within Canada. Those two details appear to be incorrect.
The previously-withheld sections, however — 13 seconds at the beginning, five at the end — contain Zehaf-Bibeau praying in Arabic.
“In the name of Allah the most gracious and merciful, All praise to Allah, the Lord of the universe.” Zehaf-Bibeau begins. “We seek his help and ask for his forgiveness.”
According to the RCMP, it withheld the sections of the video while it had analyzed the Arabic portions.
“The RCMP also needed time to fully analyze the language used, including the dialect of Arabic being spoken, consult subject matter experts and follow up on a number of investigative leads,” the news release said.
The service said it would not be commenting further on what they learned from the video.
“Lord, open for me my chest, ease my task for me and remove the impediment from my speech,” Zehaf-Bibeau says in Arabic, according to the translation provided by the RCMP, as he appears visibly nervous and at times stumbling over his words in later sections of the video.
The first section of the video, which Zehaf-Bibeau recorded in a car that he purchased specifically in preparation for the attack, also contains a quick shot identifying where in downtown Ottawa Zehaf-Bibeau was parked. That information may have been of importance during the investigation.
In the English portion, which is already public, the Canadian citizen says the attack is in retaliation for Canada’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan, and because “you guys have forgotten God and have let every indecency and things running [sic] your land.”
In the five seconds at the end, which was withheld until today, Zehaf-Bibeau stares upward and mumbles in Arabic, “Lord accept from me and peace be upon you and upon the Mujahadeen. May Allah curse you.”…
Angemon says
Bollocks. Whatever arabic dialect he happened to spead had no impact on his decision to murder non-muslims.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Toronto is crawling with Arab speakers, they’re not all Urdu-speaking Pakis there; most, but not all. Although it *is* true that you would be very likely to get false translations from them.
Maybe the RCMP should put Spencer on retainer; he is fluent in Arabic, and is also objective.
Alissa says
“For whatever reason, Canadian authorities, as well as those in the United States and Europe, are determined above all else — even security considerations — to keep their people ignorant and complacent regarding the jihad threat. This cannot, and will not, end well.”
The reason is: fear and probably an indication that members of the muslim brotherhood hold positions of power and are pulling the puppet strings.
occupant 9 says
Muslims make it personal. Every cop caught doing the job of policing would have his family targeted. Even cops understand the incredible problems to come … which is why they prefer to control the rational, civilized people they call family, friends and neighbours.
To control any Muslim protest, the cops need the kind of force that causes inquiries, esp since the Muslims can call up more instant “protesters” than the regular cop can deal with (in my town there are 50,000+ followers of Islam).
The cops do not want to be accused of trading in the “racist” horrors of institutional “Islamophobia” so we bend ourselves in a paralyzing logic pretzel and get more Sharia, more intolerance from Muslims to prove our cultural and national suicidal insanity is real.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Elision is a primary tool of propaganda, a set of mass communication techniques to build and maintain what I call fictive reality.
There needs to be a TV station or online newspaper that formulates a recipe of “must account for these types of facts” and applies that to the evidence *and reportage* of every major piece of reporting. The results would be startling, and would finally start turning the general populations of the West back towards real reality instead of the fictive kind.
Hidden agenda combined with simple human laziness is what’s driving the massively poor and self-defeating reportage in the West, and elsewhere. True, we know you can be called a bigot, be sued, and even be indicted on criminal felony charges for telling the truth, but if the facts are well documented and widely disseminated, the other side would be made less aggressive in attempting to silence because such an operation would raise the risks and costs to the anti-truth squads in the newspapers, on the TV channels (including Fox RINO), in the courtrooms… and even on the college campuses.
It’d clear things up and reverse the disastrous negative trend we are on. Of course, the threat of reprisal murder of those working in such an operation would be greatly heightened, so financing and staffing such an operation would be difficult, maybe even possible.
But having a recipe for fact-accounting and always applying it to institutions and major mass communications outlets is doable, and could even be applied to popular entertainment such as TV serials, movies and even comics.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
pdxnag says
Treat these violent seditious thugs no better than you would a politician. Would you hide an embarrassing fact about a politician? No. You would revel in, and pontificate about it, as the cause for this or that.
These terrorists are politicians. They seek to rule over you, as Muslims, to implement Sharia law, in place of anything and everything else. Their violence and their playbook should be highlighted not hidden. (Again, because they are politicians.)
Alissa says
The same pc head-in-the-sand crap existed when Bill Clinton’s abominable behavior with Monica Lewinsky became known. At that time all the leftard “cool” people said the same line “It’s nobody’s business what goes on in the President’s bedroom”. I bet I heard that 1000 times…literally.
I agree with you pdxnag, but put your money where your mouth is. What are you doing about it? Are you talking to your friends about forming a grassroots protest; wearing a Tshirt in public showing support advertising jihadwatch, pamela geller, support for free speech.
Alissa says
People will take notice if you do. Are you retired? Then you have the time and you don’t have to worry about pc. and losing your job over it. Attend a school division meeting and see if islamic crap is being put in the curriculum because I bet it is. Stealth jihad is winning this fight.
Jimbob says
They did the same with the Lee Rigby killer video. ITN were the first to put it out i think, a 10 second video where the Jihadi declares he chopped off the soldier’s head because of evil bush and blair.
There is a version twice as long (much harder to find at the time) where the Jihadi mentioned quotes and Suras where these acts are justified in Islam. He also did a few prayers. I knew when I saw the version something had been cut.
short version (included in report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfEKAyoYHRQ
long version
profitsbeard says
Cmon! No real Islamic prayers can be spoken by terrorist killers!
It’s a political fact!
Islam means “submission”, which is pretty peaceful.
As long as you do.
Submit, that is.
Edgar Allen says
Actress could not make a joke about burqa in stand up comedy
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/i-tried-to-make-a-joke-about-being-sensitive-to-burkas-and-got-kicked-out-of-tedxwomen-712
voegelinian says
“For whatever reason, Canadian authorities, as well as those in the United States and Europe, are determined above all else — even security considerations — to keep their people ignorant and complacent regarding the jihad threat. ”
“They cut them out so that the public wouldn’t be in danger of getting the idea that Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack had anything to do with Islam. ”
I reversed the order of those two sentences as they appear in Spencer’s editorial; for the second one begins to illuminate the Problem of the Problem (where the second Problem is, of course, Islam, and the first Problem is the West’s persisting myopia to the Problem of Islam).
It’s not just Canadian police, of course; it’s the entire Western mainstream that behaves this way. The explanation for this behavior reflects an incoherent, yet madly logical, mélange of two factors:
1) a semi-conscious fear of Muslims
2) a conscious (albeit irrational) fear of ourselves as white “racists” who will naturally devolve into a “backlash” against Brown People (aka, Muslims).
The reason this mélange is incoherent is because of an inherent paradox it contains — it is trying to have its cake and eat it too, by sustaining an incoherently muddled middle position, of a vague recognition of the danger of Muslims, suppressed mostly by denial, but it comes out sideways in ways that, of course, they would never admit.
The fear of ourselves being “racists” who will do bad things to Muslims; as we are naturally predisposed to do so, since we are white after all, and according to the PC MC paradigm (which ironically was created by the white West and has been industriously promoted by the white West for decades) white societies are the only cultures who do substantively systemic bad things.
Were the PC MCs to take factor #1 out of the equation, they might avoid purveying an incoherent idea; but they can’t do this (no matter how hard they try) because of two reasons:
a) they (the mainstream) are not utterly hopeless; they still have residues of Western rationality in their hearts & minds;
and
b) Muslims are just that bad, their words and deeds are escalating just that atrociously that they are even being registered on the radar of the Western mainstream — suppressed and compressed by PC MC spin, of course, but the point is — still registering, which is significant.
Anyway, the main factor operative here, again, is the West’s fear of being racist. That explains everything. Now, why and how the West got to this point, where it is so ridiculously afraid of being racist that it would even do major things to endanger its own societies and massively enable an ideology that opposes nearly every value, virtue and principle we hold dear — that’s another story. A more complex historical, cultural, sociological, and psychological story.
quotha raven says
To Voegelinian – Perhaps “ethical narcissism” also contributes motivation to Leftists who religiously embrace PC/MC denial of what is in front of all our faces…? You introduced this concept here a couple months ago, and I’ve found it a useful concept that’s extraordinarily catchy! Cheers! quotha
voegelinian says
yes quotha raven, that term came to me (oh oh, are the Coinage Watchdogs Angemon and Phillip Jihadski on duty to make sure they expose my “lie” that the term came to me?) as another side of the coin (pun intended) of the PC MC fear of being racist. I.e., the other side of fear, in this regard, seems to be a kind of egoistic back-patting pride — to wit, “See what a good person I am? In this moment I overcame my racism when I was friendly to that black gudy; in that moment I overcame my bigotry by being nice to that gay guy; in this moment I overcame my racism by being warm to that Muslim”, etc. This is the underlying, vague and general psychological feeling that attends the more ideational worldview of PC MC (and, unfortunately, can devolve into speech, actions, and policy).
voegelinian says
correction: that “black guy”
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“yes quotha raven, that term came to me (oh oh, are the Coinage Watchdogs Angemon and Phillip Jihadski on duty to make sure they expose my “lie” that the term came to me?)”
Huh, voeg? You do remember that we only reminded you of your own words. You’re the one who couldn’t keep his story straight – it’s not as much a “lie” as it is a lie. Your words, your lie.
jayell says
“Canada’s police edited out Islamic prayers from jihad murderer’s video” – proof that these people know full well that Islam is at the bottom of this problem. Yet they still try protect and whirwash them?
Annak says
If he had been a professing “Christian” (hypothetically because he wouldn’t be!) they would have edited prayers IN !!
And the whole world would be in an uproar and nobody would have said ” but but Christianity is a religion of peace, as their founder Jesus was…and well most of the world’s Christians are good peaceful people..blah blah…” Now would they ??
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
“…withholding was for “security purposes…” – B.S.
Believe the REAL reason is, do NOT “Upset” Islam and Muslims by further exposing the TRUTH about Islam and it’s Blood Thirsty “Allah, Muhammed. and Qur’an” Condoned Cult “Religion of HATE and DEATH”.
Dee says
But they did release it in full. Good job, we need to know.
Guest says
Don’t you hide the facts from us. Damn you if you do. When people see Islam clearly they will reject it. Canadians need to know all about it. It’s a big task; we are woefully ignorant.
jwm says
aahhh those are not prayers, those are jihadi war chants aka threats of killing
ben says
All together now : This as nothing to do with Islam!