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Canada: Convert to Islam killed by police after he “detonated a device, wounding himself and another person”

Aug 11, 2016 12:15 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Aaron Driver, after having made the fatal decision to convert to the jihadist death cult, stated to CBC last year that he “didn’t think Muslims belonged in the West and that their ways of life weren’t compatible with Canada’s.” A little over a year later, Driver, whose Muslim name was Harun Abdurahman, has reportedly been shot dead by police, following their account of “credible information of a potential terrorist threat”, which lead to a raid and the shooting of Driver when he “detonated a device, wounding himself and another person.”

Last year Jihad Watch reported about Aaron Driver, stating:

“We see it again and again: when someone in the West converts to Islam, he or she no longer considers himself to be a citizen of the country of his birth. Loyalty to the umma, the global Muslim community, supersedes all national allegiances.”

Driver defended a 2014 jihadist attack on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada but stated that he was no threat himself, even though indicating on social media that “’retaliation’ and the death of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo ‘justified’ for Canada’s role in bombing Muslims in Syria and Iraq”. Here, Driver manifested the ubiquitous mindset of jihadist hatred, driven on by a propagandist brainwashing of an anti-West (anti-Israel) mantra and backed by a religious zeal that endows these jihadists with a false sense of “heroic” purpose to “kill in the way of Allah”, thus becoming martyrs, rewarded in  paradise with 72 virgins.

Driver was subsequently arrested in 2015; after his release, he mocked: “I think they were hoping that after arresting me they’d find something, you know, they’d find things on my hard drive or my phone….They probably think they’d find a gold mine and they didn’t, so I think that’s why I’m out right now and I’m not in jail.” Interesting also was a comment he made about what apparently inspired his conversion to Islam. He stated of the Bible:

“I just decided it couldn’t possibly be the word of God, so I started watching debates to find some answers. A lot of debates between Christians and atheists and Christians and Muslims, and the Muslims were always destroying them in these debates.”

Aaron Driver

“Canada Police Kill Suspect After Receiving ‘Terrorist Threat’ Tip”, Breitbart, August 11, 2016:

(Reuters) – Canadian police killed a man on Wednesday, national television news channels reported, after the police said they had identified a suspect after receiving “credible information of a potential terrorist threat”.

The suspect was killed during a police raid in a small Ontario town, CTV News and CBC News reported.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement they had identified a suspect in a national security threat and taken action to ensure the safety of the public. No further details were provided.

Intelligence sources told Reuters that the suspect was Aaron Driver, who was arrested last year for openly supporting the Islamic State militant group on social media. The sources declined to be identified because they did not have permission to speak to the media.

The sources said Driver, who also uses the alias Harun Abdurahman, lives in Strathroy, Ontario, a small community some 225 km (140 miles) southwest of Toronto.

Driver’s death was not yet officially confirmed and his lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

Reports on Twitter late on Wednesday said police had raided a home in Strathroy in relation to the RCMP threat incident. Reporters on the scene later tweeted that the coroner had arrived and a body bag had been loaded into an official vehicle.

The London Free Press newspaper, citing family members, reported that Driver was shot by police after he detonated a device, wounding himself and another person. There was no immediate confirmation of that report.

Driver had not been charged with a crime but in February he was placed on a peace bond, a court order that restricted his movements, required that he stay away from social media and computers and not have contact with Islamic State or similar groups.

He said in February he did not think Canadians should fear him and that people should not be persecuted for their political beliefs, according to CBC news…

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  1. Michael Laudahn says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    I keep on saying: Go for the converts!

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 12:43 pm

      Michael
      You seem to imply that converts don’t represent true Islam.
      He was not properly prepared for the soul crushing emptiness that Islam offers.

      Culture Shock of unmet spiritual needs.
      If he truly understood the vileness of Islam he would have blown himself up in a mosque beside the imam and fellow Muslims.

      • Rob Porter says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 11:18 pm

        Jay, this man was a half-wit who interpreted things as he chose to see them. I’ve watched, in videos, Robert Spencer on many occasions debating Muslims and in every case it was evident that Robert had them utterly licked, yet this twit thinks that in every case Muslims win. The fool was dangerously ignorant and it’s just as well he made his way to hell and 72 old hags.

        • DVult says

          Aug 11, 2016 at 11:48 pm

          If some fool converts to islam it is very likely that they are mentally defective.

      • Mubarak says

        Aug 12, 2016 at 1:22 am

        If you harbor hate, resentment and envy in your heart – the hallmarks of Islam – Islam is there for you. —
        Be careful not to radicalize yourself and others, JB – it is not only wrong, but some day security intelligence might come and knock on your door.

    • Christianblood says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 6:06 pm

      Canada bans Christian prayers in Canada while spending huge sums of tax money for paying hijabs for female muslim students. Watch:

      • billybob says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 7:28 pm

        This is outrageous!

      • Mubarak says

        Aug 12, 2016 at 8:26 am

        As usual I have another take on the story:

        Suppose f.ex. that the Lords Prayer for many decades have been cited in the courts, and other public institutions in Canada as an empty ritual, and that the Lord of the heavens and earth got fed up with this praxis and decided to teach the Canadian people a lesson. He therefore assembles the angels, and among them Satan, and asks them about their opinion, and what they thought could be done in order to call attention to this miserable performance. Maybe the clever guy Satan suggested, that God should take away the empty recital of his prayer in public institutions and replace it with empty recitals of prayers all over the place, until the Canadian people got fed up with it and felt the same anguish, as God himself had felt for many years – and maybe God followed Satan’s self-serving advice. That would explain the exhibition and imposition of these mechanical, Muslim marionette-prayers, we see pupping up in front of our eyes, everywhere we live and move and have our being – right?

    • billybob says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 6:43 pm

      So we have more information out now, full of details…

      World
      Dead Canada attack suspect prepared martyrdom video
      August 11 at 6:18 PM

      TORONTO — A tip from the FBI triggered what Canadian police on Thursday called a “race against time” as they scrambled to identify and locate a balaclava-wearing would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of committing a terrorist attack in Canada.

      Very interesting! See more…

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/dead-canada-attack-suspect-prepared-martyrdom-video/2016/08/11/8f754564-5fff-11e6-9d2f-b1a3564181a1_story.html

      • billybob says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 7:04 pm

        Here is an interview of a spokesperson at the mosque he attended. Turns out they tried to embrace him into the uma, and continually attempted to explain to him that Islam is a religion of peace, but he remained unconvinced – so much so that after all that love and kindness bestowed upon him, he finally withdrew. I think he must have felt frustrated when they couldn’t explain how the violent commandments of the Quran were a call to peace. I know I found it disturbing how many times and how much that spokesperson tried to explain how peaceful and beautiful Islam is, when I damn well know that is a lie. All those lies right there would be enough there to drive one to jihad.

        I was shocked to hear in that video that the Muslim community there in Strathroy numbered 30,000. That is an awful lot when you consider that the population of that town is only 21,000. Of course he was considering Muslims in nearby London, with a population of 366,150, to be part of his community. Even so, at 5% of the population, that is way too many Muslims! Any more and they will be the stage of demanding Sharia concessions, if they are not already.

        http://www.strathroyagedispatch.com/2016/08/11/leaders-tried-to-change-aaron-drivers-very-strong-political-views-by-showing-him-the-warmth-of-islam-a-spokesperson-says

        • Mrs. V says

          Aug 14, 2016 at 2:18 pm

          There are not 30,000 Muslims in Strathroy. I know, I live there.

  2. Blurb1000 says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 12:47 pm

    Like a Swiss watch. You can always thrust a convert.
    He do what the Quran tell him to do. 100% reliability.

  3. Michael Laudahn says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    ‘You seem to imply that converts don’t represent true Islam’:

    On the contrary.

  4. Kumi Ho says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    By ‘the Muslims always destroyed them in the debates’ did he mean those debates ended with beheadings?

  5. Hi Moe says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    Some positive news…I like to stay positive these days.

  6. DogOnPorch says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    There is one thing the powers that be in Canada are very, very sure of: this has nothing to do with Islam.

  7. John A. Marre says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    Conversion to the death cult IS rejection of the values of Western Civilization. Upon conversion, the individual renounces American citizenship, and needs to be deported.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    This murderous madness and delusional thinking because of the false doctrines of Islam , which are based on the Koran ,as in 9:111. 44:54 .55:56. 78;31,. Such foundations of Koranic story- dogma’s as of a place with houris for the jihadist “martyr” who dies fighting for the cause of Islam. To such a jihadist warrior who actually believe such Koranic stories, the more fool him . To give only two out of many reasons why such a murdering jihad -minded Muslim is a fool are as follows. First,this Koranic doctrine of a story of a sex-filled place with houris for the male Muslim who dies in the jihad nothing but a fictional invention of men inserted in the false book of false religion by sly and deceptive men. For the Bible warns against listening to and believing unproven and false religious story/doctrines . No matter how enticing those religious doctrine stories happen to be . For the Bible wand against giving “heed to fables …” First Timothy 1:4.[K.J.v.] Second , the so called “martyrdom operation” of the jihadist is in reality a suicide/homicide attack.. This murderous violence of such a jihad, is according to the Bible, a sure way he hell For he Bible teaches that a murderer shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven.” Galatians 5:21. Likewise,the Bible in Revelations 21:8 also confirms this. Therefore this man who was a Muslim /jihadist might had really believed the false book of the Koran with its many bogus promises.. Nevertheless, His religion was false and his beliefs were wrong and tragically for him he is now in hell.

  9. Michael Johnson says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    See what happens when islam is not checked and defeated it causes terrorism on home soil

  10. marsfeld says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    Wow, he thought muslims always won those kind of debates?

    So the genius of “You have to read it in the original language!” / “The jews did it!” / “It’s just an inner struggle, jihad is pure self-defense!” etc. must have seemed totally intellectually stimulating and reasonable to him.

    No big loss for the evolution of the human spirit, obviously.

    • No Fear says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 6:11 pm

      You forgot: “The Quran is chock full of scientific facts”….e.g. the sun setting in a muddy pool, Allah throwing meteors at demons etc

  11. common sense says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Siyanorah sucker!

    God gave us the choice the garden of Eden; the tree of life and the tree of knowledge with the warning not to eat from the tree of knowledge.

    This is the choice issued by a loving God that wants his children to love him in return, as humans we need that right to chose or else evolution of our souls and conscience stagnate. We’d be right where the middle east is right now in our views.
    Convert boy chose poorly by converting to a monotheistic God/cult that allows NO other choice but to follow the directives found within its filthy edicts. If they don’t they are not true Muslims but apostates. The koran is the antithesis to our way of life.

  12. Angemon says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    A lot of debates between Christians and atheists and Christians and Muslims, and the Muslims were always destroying them in these debates.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    *snort*

    Oh, my sides!!!

  13. gravenimage says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Canada: Convert to Islam killed by police after he “detonated a device, wounding himself and another person”
    ……………………………..

    Another convert to the “religion of peace”…

  14. Kim Bruce says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Islam has a very unique quality of being able to attract the vilest psychopaths on the planet. It’s all in the ideology.
    Aaron Driver found the modern revision of Christianity too boring…not enough death, torture and terrorism. Islam fit the bill perfectly. That is also why so many inmates are drawn to Islam in the prisons.
    It’s really a sociopath’s dream come true…just ask Hillary or Barack.

  15. Johan Elzinga says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 5:33 am

    Again, nothing at all about this in the Dutch newspapers (AD.nl, detelegraaf.nl). Not even in the moderate right wing online German newspaper focus.de. The mentality of our media here in Europe to ignore these newsitems is really frustrating!

  16. Lioness says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 10:44 am

    The only reason one converts to islam, is to commit jihad. The converts are the worst and should immediately raise a red flag and be on surveiilence by the police. Like that vile couple in BC that wanted to blow up the Legislature and recently were set free by our dhimmi courts.

  17. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    The leftist Ottawa Citizen today called Driver “the victim” of the evil RCMP on page 1.

    In fact, the Canadian cops and enemedia aren’t giving us any real details about this “tragedy” yet here in Canada.

  18. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    Apparently the RCMP had to be alerted to this immanent plot, by the FBI – yesterday.

    • UNCLE VLADDI says

      Aug 12, 2016 at 6:26 pm

      They had no clue at all about it, on their own.

  19. mortimer says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 10:01 am

    Aaron Driver became convinced that raping married captives, enslavement and genocide were what ‘god’ really wanted.

    And no one in the Islamic community convinced him otherwise. Why not?

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