This is odd. Canadian authorities are saying that the attack was a manifestation of mental illness, not terrorism. Of course, we have seen many attacks that are obviously jihad ascribed to mental illness, so that must be taken into consideration, but the mayor’s words are odd in any case. Toronto has always been “inclusive” of the mentally ill? Of those who drive trucks into pedestrians? Or is there a community that John Tory is anxious to assure the world that Toronto is “inclusive” of, that has some connection to this attack?
Toronto Mayor @JohnTory: “This is a time when this community should come together…I hope that we will, as a city, remind ourselves of the fact that we are admired around the world for being inclusive and for being accepting and understanding and considerate.” pic.twitter.com/prHLH4n6HR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 23, 2018
“Toronto Mayor Praises City’s Reputation For ‘Being Inclusive’ Following Van Attack [VIDEO],” by Will Racke, Daily Caller, April 23, 2018:
Toronto Mayor John Tory encouraged residents to remember their city’s worldwide reputation for tolerance and inclusiveness — hours after a man mowed down pedestrians with a rental van, killing at least nine people and injuring several more.
“This is a time when this community should come together … I hope that we will, as a city, remind ourselves of the fact that we are admired around the world for being inclusive and for being accepting and understanding and considerate,” Tory said at a news conference on Monday’s attack.
The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, drove a white Ryder van onto a sidewalk north of downtown Toronto, police said. After smashing into several pedestrians and coming to a stop, the man exited the van and waved a dark object at responding police officers. A brief standoff ensued, but officers were able to detain the suspect without firing any shots.
One suspect is in custody following the incident, which is being treated at a deliberate attack, acting Toronto Police Chief Peter Yuen confirmed. Witnesses described the suspect as being “Middle Eastern” in appearance, but authorities have not said if the attack is tied to Islamic terrorism….
DanC says
Yeah, because mayor Tory is a Leftie, a regular politically-correct Liberal. Although he pretends to be Conservator/right-wing. BS, he’s a right wing just like McCain in US.
And Islam / Jihad is the moral author of this. Even if this guy is indeed mentally ill/unstable, Islam is morally to blame. Because this method to kill many people was invented by Islam.
Linda says
I agree. John Tory is no Conservative. I think diversity and inclusivity are going to get us all killed. Why would Minassian aim for everyone he could hit on the sidewalk just because he couldn’t get a date with a woman? It doesn’t add up and there’s more to this story than they want to tell the public.
mortimer says
Minassian is part of a pervasive problem of a politically-correct culture that is GENERALLY demeaning towards men and which gives preferential treatment to women in all matters.
We were told in the sixties, seventies and eighties that we must accommodate those who are disadvantaged … in the name of equality… but now the cries for equality have turned into cries for supremacy.
Many men are left out and the suicide rate among American men is now epidemic. HERE ARE THE FACTS (not ‘opinions’):
1.The annual age-adjusted suicide rate is 13.26 per 100,000 individuals.
2.Men die by suicide 3.5x more often than women.
3.Women attempt suicide 2x more often than men.
4.On average, there are 121 suicides per day.
5.White males accounted for 7 of 10 suicides in 2015.
6.A firearm is used in almost 50% of all suicides.
7.The rate of suicide is highest in middle age—white men in particular.
Linda says
I can see people wanting to be equal. I can see people not wanting to be discriminated against. However, when it goes over the top and turns into supremacy, I think that’s a BIG problem.
Janice Disher says
Mortimer – “but now the cries for equality have turned into cries for supremacy. ” that is profound. I will use that quote when my libfriends start harassing me for my conservative views.
gravenimage says
Mortimer–with all respect–the idea that equality for women is forcing men to commit sucide is just mistaken.
Berengaria says
This sounds suspiciously like the words of G. W. Bush, shortly after the Sneak Attack on America, by the “Religion of Peace” Followers. 9/11 taught America the truth about G.W’s “Religion of Peace & I never trusted G.W. after that Speech. The Mayor of Toronto is skipping down the same Dhimmi Path!
Clare says
Canadian politicians repeat the mantra of diversity, inclusivity and acceptance in order to grab the left wing media’s attention on the 6 o’clock news. Minassian may just be a “crazy” socially inept computer nerd, but there is absolutely no doubt that he took his cues from ISIS which take their cues from the Koran. Prior to ISIS crazy people killed the conventional way, knives and guns. Vans of mass destruction can be traced to Islamic terrorist cells.
Janice Disher says
Very true, Clare.
jack cade says
Once again, our rulers misunderstand the nature of Islam; terror and domination are as endemic in the Koran as evangelism is in the New Testament. Following a central doctrine of an ideology does not require membership in a sub-group. Jihadis don’t need to be members of Isis or Al-khyda (I like English orthography) any more than a Christian evangelist needs to be a member of a specific church.
First, we remove the politicians. Then, we remove Islam from the civilized world.
WPM says
So the mayor of Toronto thinks we should tolerate people getting run over on the side walk by rental vans. We should not look to closely at the motive if its not PC compliant. I guess if it is proven to be an Islamic terrorist attack he will come out and say it is” part and parcel of living in a world class city” like the mayor of London Khan.
Linda says
You got it. If they can’t successfully deny it, they’ll try to normalize it.
kevin says
they already have started to condone it ,trudeau will never allow a muslim to be charged with terrorism because if he did that would be opposite of the crap hes been preaching to canadians for 2 years .This is the 2nd terror attack of a muslim using a vehicle and both now are being swept under the proverbial carpet .SHAME
Janice Disher says
I was thinking the same thing when I heard the news this morning.
Ren says
All that matters after a terrorist attack is “inclusiveness”. That is the situation in Canada because of Trudeau the clown.
Jaladhi says
Can this Mayor clarify his remarks – “what is Toronto inclusive of”‘ – looks to me the mayor is delusional and doesn’t know what is he talking about. Here ten people were murdered and this moron is praising Toronto for being inclusive and doesn’t seem to have any respect for the victims. Oh I get it – he is is so proud of murderers being included here!
JM says
Perhaps the mayor is (indirectly) praising the diversity of the victims, as a toned-down version of the official line after the London Bridge attack in 2017.
Rene says
if he was not muslim, they would have already been shouting it from the rooftop!
Strangerinastrangeland says
Bingo.
Bev says
So what are you saying – that Islam is not inclusive because they want to take out those who disagree with them. This mayor is nothing but a bone head.
vyx says
So, basically he’s saying “It’s OK that some taxpayers died, as long as we’re nice to Islam and feel good about being tolerant.”
Yeah, I don’t want my politicians to say or think things like that.
Tolerance run wild.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Lebel says
I posted this in another thread, I’ve added to it as jihadwatchers offer their analysis:
To recap, we have four possibilities at jihadwatch:
Driver had Armenian name but Muslims did horrible things to Armenians therefore it’s Islam’s fault.
Driver was likely a convert to Islam. Indeed, many bad things done by non-Muslims can somehow be traced to a likely (hidden) conversion.
Driver is Muslim but the media is hiding everything (in league with the left). The same thing happened to the driver in Munster who they claimed was an ethnic German but a source in Romania told us the truth about his Muslim roots.
On the miniscule chance that the driver is not Muslim, it’s still Islam’s fault since it invented vehicular attacks (they didn’t exist before Islam).
So it’s basically Islam’s fault. I think we could use the same methodology for any future crime, murder etc of just about any kind.
DanC says
@Label: You’re a moron/leftist troll aren’t you? Islam has pushed for killing unbelievers. Many and by whatever method works. Their disregard for human life is quite obvious by now. They pushed/praised lately this particular method. Of course mentally unstable people would copycat. But No it’s not that, Islam is the shining/loving ideology on top of the hill – this is what you’re trying to say? 🙂
Chand says
Japanese Kamikazi invented aeroplane suicide attacks. But then neither Buddhism nor Shintoism teaches that.
Then came the Muslim Osama bin Laden the follower of the Arab Mohammad. This 7th AD prophet thru his prophetic future seeing vision knew that the warrior Bin Laden would again resurrect the religion of Islam by using Kamikaze airplane attacks, learning from the Shintoites and Buddhists.
The great prophet of Islam also prophesized that 13 centuries after him another warrior from Iraq, Abu bakr al Baghdadi would use his brilliant mind to use the humble Motor vehicle as a weapon for Islam. In fact it was Allah who had guided the brains of the Christians who invented the car engine having previously guided the scientists who invented the steam engine knowing of course beforehand that they would come to the aid of Islam.
Now Allah’s power is being revealed as the aeroplane and the car are becoming the weapons that are protecting Mohammad’s religion.
Just kidding…
The reason why the mayor is talking of inclusiveness is that many might automatically blame Muslims. Simple.
Or just another way of saying…WE ARE NOT BLAMING MUSLIMS. HE WAS NOT MUSLIM. PLEASE DONT ACCUSE MUSLIMS FOR THIS ONE.
AND FOR OTHER JIHAD ATTACKS IN THE FUTURE PLEASE DO NOT BLAME ALL MUSLIMS.
gravenimage says
What a load of crap from Lebel. Jihad Watch has said none of these things, and that this not what this story is about, in any case.
Voytek Gagalka says
“Inclusive” population which elected such person as their “mayor” who uses hackneyed and stale bromides to justify terrorism and plain murder deserves his “inclusiveness” 100%. Brothers, you VOTED for that!
Linnte says
Sounds like Sadiq Khan to me-same story just different words.
JM says
“Evil preaches tolerance until it becomes dominant, then it tries to silence good.”
-Charles J. Chaput
Rarely says
At the time of his press conference it certainly looked like the incident was jihad connected. I even pointed out that it occurred in a heavily Jewish area of Toronto. That he would try to defuse the situation before the inevitable automatic backlash before all the facts are known is commendable regardless of his political stripe.
At the moment it looks like that was the correct tact to take. It looks like our killer was inspired by a very loose on line movement of guys who are involuntary celebates — however weird that may sound. In other words he is very possibly a first-rate nut case.
To connect it to islam at this stage would be very irresponsible. Do not be too disappointed if it turns out that he really is insane.
BTW. The Metro Toronto police are not under Trudeau’s thumb. If it were to be determined that this was potentially a terrorist attack then in would come under the control of the Feds and the RCMP.
It is important not to credit things to islam that has nothing to do with it for many reasons but, most importantly, because that would be practicing the same type of bigotry they do. Remember that this crowd blames EVERY bad thing on the Jews and Israel, including natural disasters and events/
Sam says
Agreed,
However, this “Toronto mayor praises city’s reputation for being “inclusive” after van attack.” is still weird to me.
No Fear says
“Involuntary celibates” – sounds like me ……..
No Fear says
I added my comment as a joke, but the “involuntary celibates” was mentioned on numerous news sites. Wow. There are such groups out there. I am surprised.
gravenimage says
I think many of us have gone through periods like this at one time or another in our lives–most of us don’t embrace it as a core identity, though. Pretty sick.
Shmoovie says
Toronto residents do not need to remind themselves. They have a mayor to do it for them, fitting almost all the right words into one sentence: inclusive, accepting, understanding, considerate.
PABLO says
At a time when the victims’ bodies are still warm, Mayor John Tory is concerned about Toronto’s inclusiveness. Mayor Tory is an international embarrassment.
gravenimage says
Yes, he is.
somehistory says
They have “included’ mass-murderers in the makeup of their city and they are proud of it.
Get used to it, citizens. He is in favor of the scourge continuing. A wild beast is loose and he has no plans to change that.
Sentinel says
I don’t see him wearing his Thank God ‘itwasn’tmetoo’ badge.
What he means is that the victims died in a good cause.
TruthHonestReality says
Toronto is inclusive of and for mass murders!?! I don’t know if any other city on earth wants mass murders to be easily accepted in a nice inclusive manner.
If my loved one died in this terrorist attack and some yahoo is up there saying this I would be very upset.
gravenimage says
Yes–sickening.
Ray Sears says
I am willing to Bet that a lot of people in Toronto are wishing that Rob Ford was still the mayor instead of this jackwad.
Jimbo says
Master plan to end all car and truck attacks. Roundup, deport all Muslims in the civilised world and send them to any of 60 Islamic Sharia shitholes. Let them car bomb and truck attack each other to death. Then we take back the oil fields western technology built, and build some panel and wind farms on all lands left empty by the Muslim mass kill off using martial law to save earth from global warming. This will solve the truck attack problem and also solve global warming, climate change and the savage Islamic muslim problem. Thank you Lord Jesus for scientific technology and modern mathematics and DNA genealogy.
Bill says
Can the Mayor explain just exactly how inclusiveness, of which he is so proud, was represented in this attack? It is such an odd statement given that terrorism was promptly ruled out. I can only assume that Toronto has a reputation for being inclusive of homicidal maniacs.
gravenimage says
Good questions.
Lionel Scott says
I though that this attack was a crime not a weather event .
gravenimage says
So often that is how attacks are described–as thought they were floods or earthquakes with no human agency.
Laura says
I suppose the flowers are piling up, the candles readied and preparations being made for a community rendition of Kumbaya?
Terra Nova says
Canada is lost anyway by someone like Trudeau and how come that Muslims always victimised themselves right away. Read the guys mother,” he was put up to this by bad people,”. they never do it them selves or they are “mentally insane”. To follow the koran, you are already, and it shows that you can not think for yourself. Mind you, we have had our share in Christianity too. There are always “the high so called wise men” who are telling you what to do , how to think, etc. If you meet a “wise man”, think about what he preaches and how he explains things and how he thinks, and make up your own mind about it.
And what seems nice to you, you might want to keep it, but what you don’t, do not keep it, and if you were wrong about something, you will always find out later. But everything that commits violence, throw it away, anybody who tells you to believe you are superior to anybody else, throw it out. AND START THINKING FOR YOURSELF.
andra says
Toronto Mayor John Tory encouraged residents to remember their city’s worldwide reputation for tolerance and inclusiveness
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What is wrong with left brains?
Since when has tolerance been a synonymon for accepting terror or brutality? Since when has tolerance been a free ride for terrorists and criminals?
And why do lefties always get up for the traitors and do not care for the victims?
How sick must I be when being a leftie?
eur says
inclusive = multicultural = a lot of muslims.
Integration policies are not necessary for the Chinese, for the South Americans.. For the Eskimos. However with the Muslims all are problems.. All. Problems, violence, robberies, murders, rapes.. Jihad.
No Muzzies Here says
He’s saying that there’s no proof that the killer is Muslim, but he’s telling the public not to hate Muslims because of it.
gravenimage says
Just spot on.