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Toronto shooter “known to police,” had expressed “support” for pro-ISIS website

Jul 24, 2018 8:39 am By Robert Spencer

His past crimes that brought him to the attention of police involved “weapons and violence,” and yet he was free from surveillance and able to plan this jihad attack.

“WARMINGTON: Was Danforth attack terror, or terrorism?,” by Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, July 24, 2018:

…Meanwhile, my law-enforcement sources confirm investigators are looking at every avenue — including a potential jihadi-inspired mission.

Files being reviewed by police include concern Hussain expressed “support” for a website that was seen as “pro-ISIL,” says a law enforcement source.

Sources say police in Toronto and CSIS officials in Ottawa, as well as the RCMP, are looking into his past, which sources say include his residence in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Hussain apparently had been spoken to by authorities about his online activities. Sources say Toronto Police, the OPP and the RCMP have all had an interest in the now-deceased shooter.

What law enforcement is saying is that the attack was planned, and Hussain was “well known to Toronto Police” for investigations into past crimes “involving weapons and violence.”…

A neighbour living near the apartment where Hussain lived with his parents said Faisal told him he previously worked in a bakery and as a grocer. While some friends said he was “not at all radical,” others said he was more interested in Islamic discussions “when there were more people around.”…

Police executed a search warrant Monday and were set to hunt for what they were told could be a stockpile of weapons and perhaps explosives. They were also interested in computers and hard drives….

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  1. PABLO says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 8:56 am

    One again, for fear of being deemed Islamophobic western police dropped the ball and carnage resulted.

  2. Bill says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 8:57 am

    Here we go again. Another Jihadi known to police and they do nothing about it. I am not comforted to learn that Canadian law enforcement is as corrupt, useless and Jihadi coddling as our own FBI, CIA, NSA and State Department.

    The same police though will relentlessly monitor and arrest law-abiding citizens for hate crimes if they dare speak out against Jihad.

    • Rarely says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 11:40 am

      Where do you get “corrupt” and “jihad coddling”? Likely too short of manpower to be as efficient as we would like. How many attacks have they prevented?

      • Ragtag says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 12:11 pm

        No Mr. apologist. The article said he was known with his proclivities. With our Islamo-loving PM and perversion-loving beauracracy, you can be rest assured more of this globalist-inspired terror will be visiting our fair cities soon.

      • Guest says

        Jul 25, 2018 at 7:13 pm

        I disagree with your “Likely too short of manpower to be as efficient as we would like.”

        I think there is an overarching tendency for the police to not be ‘seen’ or ‘perceived by the community’ as being islamophobic, so it is much more likely that Faisal Hussein was shielded from closer police investigation purely BECAUSE he was a muslim.

        The police, surely want to do their job, but they do not want to be Tarred with the Racist/Islamacist brush so they hold back from doing what needed to be done.

        Two Canadians died for their ruluctance to do their job correctly. The Jihadi was known to Police, yet the police gave that ticking time-bomb a wide berth so as not to offend the Islamic community and their protectors in our society, so the police and security services have the blood of that child and that young woman on their hands.

        They might yet be alive if the police had been less concerned with being branded Racists, and more concerned with protecting our people.

        To all the LEO’s out there reading this, I say do your job or get the fuck out, because your reluctance to do your job is giving everyone a false sense of security.

        At least if you tell us that your policy is to give Jihadis, Free Range to plan and act as they see fit, then we can know that you cannot be relied upon to protect us and that we must take our protection into our own hands or otherwise leave the country for a safer place.

        Poland perhaps! A land where Islamic Jihad attacks are unheard of and the police aren’t pussies.

    • Fuchi Sakamoko says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 1:58 pm

      Oh, what nonsense. The police are extremely soft on racist bigots. How else can you explain your ability to post such nonsense?

      • 6woods says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 2:53 pm

        What did he say that was racist and bigotted? Your own racism and bigotry is very apparent.
        And one more time – ISLAM IS NOT A RACE.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 4:04 pm

        Firstly, Islam is *not* a race. Then, this story is not “nonsense”–the story comes from the Toronto Sun, which is a reputable newspaper.

        Then, how is it “racist” or “bigoted” to not want Jihadists to murder innocent people? How grotesque.

        Moreover, the victims included Chinese, Indian, Jordanian, and an Italian. How is opposing the slaughter of such a diverse group of people “racist”?

    • David says

      Jul 25, 2018 at 6:36 am

      It is a shame that police can’t ‘eliminate’ the threat having had sufficient evidence as to the continued danger of men like this

  3. Steve says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 9:02 am

    The Toronto Sun is the only paper bringing this up.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 9:06 am

      The media are clearly covering up for the Boy Blunder Jihadistin Trudeau who never met a TERRORIST he didn’t like.

      • Andy says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 3:12 pm

        Blah blah blah blah blah blah puppet on a string…….

        Mayor of Toronto reads a script

        • Andy says

          Jul 24, 2018 at 4:04 pm

          If only Canada and all Judeo-Christian Heritage Countries had a leader like President TRUMP!

        • David says

          Jul 25, 2018 at 6:43 am

          Thanks Andy for showing this load of tripe! I think the Mayor has a mental problem. Law abiding Citizens need guns to protect themselves against jihadi lunatics

        • Andy says

          Jul 25, 2018 at 9:57 am

          My pleasure David,

          As the great Michael Savage has stated:

          “LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER”

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=647Bkhx2gEo

          MICHAEL SAVAGE EXPLAINS THE MENTAL DISORDER LIBERALISM

    • Linda says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 9:13 am

      Thank God some media is telling the truth. Now we can dispense with the descriptions of him as “always smiling” and “mentally ill”. There was a method to this guy’s madness, and it was jihad.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 3:15 pm

      Not a peep from the CBC and CTV.

      Gee I can’t wait for the Tories to shut down the CBC and the CTV being sold for parts by BellMedia.

    • Just Sayin says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 7:16 pm

      Steve, the Toronto SUN isn’t a left wing rag like every other newspaper in the country

  4. rich says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 9:07 am

    Why do we keep allowing these savages/demons from Muslim countries into our great Western countries? It is madness. Their “Sharia” is diametrically opposed to everything we hold dear.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 9:11 am

      Agree. Sharia law is SUPREMACIST and so it is totally incompatible with pluralist, liberal democracy.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 9:54 am

      “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
      Churchill

      • Nabi says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 11:16 am

        The warnings didn’t originate with Churchill: Going back centuries, Marco Polo said pretty much the same thing.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 24, 2018 at 4:05 pm

          Infidels have warned of Muslim savagery throughout the whole history of Islam.

    • JM says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 6:18 pm

      We don’t allow it, our “leaders” do, and they are do so with the full knowledge that their complicity will result in the destruction of Western civilization.

  5. mortimer says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 9:09 am

    Toronto is going to have more and more jihad attacks as the Muslim population feels emboldened by the Trudeau government’s whitewashing of JIHADISM.

    Jihadistin Trudeau never met a terrorist he didn’t like

    • Linda says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 9:16 am

      Muslims DO just LOVE Trudeau.

      • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 3:34 pm

        Add to that 200 members of twenty “white helmet” families that are coming to Canada thanks to, primarily, Freeland. (Interesting that she is a strong supporter of Ukrainian nationalism – which in western Ukraine often translates to neo-Nazi.) The 2019 election can’t come soon enough.

        Oh … and many thanks to Bibi as well …

        What do they say? Politics makes for strange bedfellows.

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Jul 24, 2018 at 4:00 pm

          Even more interesting is that this website hasn’t said peep about the safe conduct of the “White Helmet” families story ….

          Maybe the editor(s) is/are waiting to figure out what the hell is really going on before posting anything, or ….

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 24, 2018 at 4:20 pm

        I doubt that Muslims love Trudeau–he’s still a “filthy Infidel”. They are always eager to use useful idiots, though.

  6. penelope says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 9:30 am

    why is it the murderers always plead ‘insanity’ or ‘mental illness’ or whatever works best to get off scott free?? it is probably thousands years of inbreeding which renders them useless other than to follow the so-called ‘jihad’ stuggle which is also pure bullshit. it is plain simple murder of those unlike themselves, otherwise, non-muslims. why don’t they round up these jerks to protect the sane people???

    islam/jihad is pure disgust and ignorance no matter how you paint it; excuses do not cut it

    • Marky says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 9:58 pm

      In Canada pleading mental illness’ can basically get you a get out of jail free card, if you’re lucky. Spend a few years in the crazy house, then a halfway house (on the street), then in maybe less than 10 years, you can get an absolute discharge, legally change your name, and move on. Google Tim McLean, his killer decapitated him and ate parts of his body. Now a free man.

  7. Westman says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 9:36 am

    One can be certain that the local Mosque will deny his attendance.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 4:21 pm

      Yep.

      And his neighbors will say that he always seemed so normal…

  8. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 9:38 am

    **What mosque/s** did he and/ or family (including extended family) and friends attend?

    it should be searched, from top to bottom. And the imam/s interrogated, very carefully.

    A further question: does his mama wear hijab? Niqab? Burka?

    What of his papa? Beard, and no moustache on the upper lip?

    Are there sisters? If so: do they wear the hijab?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 4:35 pm

      All good questions, DDA. I hope Canadian authorities pursue them.

  9. somehistory says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 10:09 am

    when the story first broke, *some* of us knew this would be the case.

    When he was found dead in the street…unable to converse, unable to answer questions or even say his name…and it was announced that he had *mental* issues….was “disturbed”…it was apparent that the police knew who he was.

    they had no time then…between finding him dead.,and releasing the “disturbed” announcement…to actually investigate him to learn much more than his name, assuming he was carrying an ID on his person. Investigations take time….first locating residence, family, friends, co=workers.

    But they knew him. And this was readily apparent from the beginning.

  10. Politicianophobia says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 10:30 am

    Marc Lepine aka Gamil Gharbi son of Algerian, Muslim immigrant, Rahid Liass Gharbi, shot and killed 14 women, wounded 10 women and 4 men at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal in 1989.

    He admired Adolf Hitler, disliked career women, feminists, and stated women belong in the home. He planned his attack for months. On December the 6th he entered Ecole Polytechnique, separated men and women, told the men to leave claiming he was fighting feminism and started shooting, then killed himself. He was described as anti-social, mentally ill.

    July 22, 2019, Hussain, an Isis supporter, known to police shoots and kills 2, wounds 13.

    Diversity will be our death.

    • Linda says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 12:01 pm

      You are so right and when Gharbi carried out his attack, all we heard about it was the feminists decrying violence against women in Canada. Even back then, no one mentioned Islam. It seems that then it was more convenient for the feminists to use the story as a tool against violence against women in Canada.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 4:42 pm

      Lots of diversity is fine–not welcoming in ravening Muslims, though.

  11. infidel says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 10:43 am

    ha ha…. more ugly jehaadi skeletons tumbling out of the closet of this worm. See how much the family indulged in taqiyya.

  12. Dan says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 11:06 am

    The same old excuse is being used to hide this Islamic attack.He was not mentally ill,only demonically inspired.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 4:47 pm

      Yes–this casts doubt on the claim of “mental illness”:

      “Toronto jihad murderer’s neighbors unaware of his “mental illness’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/toronto-jihad-murderers-neighbors-unaware-of-his-mental-illness

  13. Older Canadian says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 11:07 am

    The police did comment when it first happened that it appeared by his stance, maneuvers, and how he handled the gun he had military training. Can’t help thinking he may be one of trudeau’s returnees, or part of a cell in the area. Also skeptical that his parents did not know their son was a threat. Mentally ill? The area he lives in has way too many fundalmentists, can tell by how they dress if nothing else. I live in the GTA and know that area well.

  14. Charles Casaburi says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 11:11 am

    Try to imagine if this guy was a white Christian who visited a white supramacist webside. We would instantly know the guy’s life history & the news would be full of idle speculation about his sinister motives. No crazy excuses.

  15. Ric says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 12:33 pm

    Listening to the Canadian MSM and the politicos is futile. The censoring of facts regarding this Terrorist Massacre and the evildoer in want of not offending the Muslim communities and the pro-Islam Progressives who run the city and nation. It is not the first time nor the last that suppression of Muslim criminal acts.

    The revealing of the terrorist’s name by police, apologists, and deniers began the old, worn excuse of mental illness. No mention, as of yet that the Jihadi was known to Police and supported a pro-ISIS website.

    Mayor Tory a flaccid leftist whose sole bent is to placate the Left and minorities. Gun violence is rampant; however, it is law-abiding gun owners who are under attack after this tragedy. Bike lanes and providing a lube-job to squeaky wheel leftists and minorities is, also, a top priority.

  16. Jess Sain says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    Before the ink dried on the first story out on this I already knew who/what/why caused this(immigrant/muslim/radical). The initial story went on about mental issues without ever mentioning or describing the perpetrator, that alone was all I needed to know. Canada moved to the left and elected Trudy, the open borders estrogen candidate and now they are reaping the rewards.

    • alex smythe says

      Jul 25, 2018 at 7:41 pm

      A lot of dopeheads voted for him for the legalization of weed, and a lot of others voted for him due to his handsome looks from el commandante Fidel Castro.

  17. Norger says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 1:54 pm

    Let the obfuscation and denial begin….

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 4:48 pm

      Grimly true–as well as the ludicrous claims of Muslims “fearing backlash”.

  18. Mary says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    Thank God the police took care of him. If he had lived he might have been sent to the psyche hospital behind my house, we’ve had quite a few escapes from there.

  19. gravenimage says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 3:53 pm

    Toronto shooter “known to police,” had expressed “support” for pro-ISIS website
    ………………………

    Why the hell was he free to murder Canadians?

  20. Andre Paquin says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 4:55 pm

    Hello from Canada.

    It’s very interesting that the perps family’s statement was released within seconds of his identity being revealed.

    I suspect that the libero-fascist government was involved in preparing the statement and withheld the name until they had a “good” cover story to obscure the real motive behind the attack.

    Weather or not the perp was a card carrying member of a koranimal terrorist/missionary group is not important, just practicing that gutter “religion” as dictated in their “holy” book is deadly and an inconvenient truth that libs/progs don’t want their sheeple class to know.

  21. shoehorn says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    Terror or terrorism … splitting hairs aren’t we? Whatever makes Mohammad victorious.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 24, 2018 at 6:16 pm

      Yes–talk about a distinction without a difference…

  22. Cricket says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    Everybody knows this was a typical TERRORIST MUSLIM ATTACK!

  23. gravenimage says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 5:15 pm

    Toronto shooter “known to police,” had expressed “support” for pro-ISIS website
    ……………………..

    Is anyone here surprised?

  24. JM says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    We’ve got to realize that the NSA, and the many other multiple intelligence agencies in the US and abroad, are NOT in existence to protect the citizens of their respective nations.
    These agencies exist to surveil US, and to monitor and track each and every citizen.

  25. Indiana Tom says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    SSDD & SOP for Jihadists in the West.
    SSDD & SOP for Government units in the West.

  26. Lebel says

    Jul 24, 2018 at 7:52 pm

    “Files being reviewed by police include concern Hussain expressed “support” for a website that was seen as “pro-ISIL,” says a law enforcement source.”

    First piece of real evidence as far as I know.

  27. Linda says

    Jul 25, 2018 at 6:25 am

    ISIS claimed responsibility.

    https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2018/07/25/ISIS-claims-responsibility-for-Toronto-shooting-.html

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