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Canada: Muslima tried to join the Islamic State, cops did nothing; then she attacked people with a butcher knife

Jan 18, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

She was screaming “Allahu akbar” during her attack and wrote about her hope that Allah would “grant me martyrdom for His sake, for the elevation of his religion and to take revenge from the criminal infidels.”

Not that this has anything to do with…

Anyway, why wasn’t the RCMP watching her after she tried to join the Islamic State? Just too many Islamic State devotees to keep track of? Or would watching her have been “Islamophobic”?

“Her brother told police she wanted to join ISIS. They dropped the case. Then she attacked a Canadian Tire.” by Shanifa Nasser, CNC News, January 16, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):

More than a year before she entered a Canadian Tire store armed with an archer’s bow and butcher’s knife, Rehab Dughmosh’s brother tipped off police that she was on an international flight to join ISIS.

The RCMP notified Turkish authorities, who refused her entry into the country and put her on the next flight back to Toronto. Dughmosh denied it. No charges were laid and the RCMP closed their file.

These are among the details that Dughmosh admitted in a Toronto courtroom Wednesday, a year and seven months after she allegedly threatened store employees and a customer with a golf club and a knife inside a Canadian Tire in Scarborough.

Dughmosh, who in an earlier court appearance pledged her allegiance to ISIS, faces four charges in connection with leaving Canada for the purpose of participating in a terror group, assault with a golf club, assault with a knife and carrying a compound bow — all for the benefit of a terror group, namely ISIS.

Dughmosh refused to enter a plea on Wednesday, but she presented no evidence to defend herself in her appearance at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Justice Maureen Forestell entered a not-guilty plea on Dughmosh’s behalf.
Employees wrestled woman to ground

An agreed statement of facts entered in court lays out what happened on the afternoon of June 3, 2017. Dughmosh packed three bags with an assortment of homemade weapons and headed down to the lobby of her Scarborough apartment.

Then she ran into her husband.

Anas Hanafy, separated from but still living with Dughmosh, asked the now 34-year-old what was in the bags. When he saw what was inside, he confiscated them from her.

What he didn’t know was that Dughmosh had concealed an archer’s bow and butcher’s knife beneath her robe.

At about 4:40 p.m. Dughmosh left her Scarborough home and walked to a nearby Canadian Tire store. Inside, she told an employee she wanted to purchase a set of arrows locked in a display case. The employee couldn’t hand her the items, citing a store policy that locked items needed to be given directly to a cashier for payment, according to the statement of facts.

Dughmosh, unable to pay for the arrows, left the sporting goods section and began perusing other items. She decided on a hammer, wrenches and pliers and placed them in a red shopping basket. Then she headed back to the sporting goods section, where she picked up a golf club and disappeared down an aisle.

At 5:12 p.m., Dughmosh removed a black-and-white ISIS banner from under her robe, tied a black bandana with an ISIS symbol around her head and slung the archery bow over her shoulder, according to the statement of facts. With the golf club in her right hand, she made her way to the store’s paint section.

Three store employees were in the paint section helping two customers when Dughmosh charged towards them, swinging the golf club repeatedly and shouting, “Allahu Akbar [God is Great].” One of the employees grabbed her arm as she was about to swing and wrestled the golf club away.
‘When you kill us, we kill you’

That’s when Dughmosh pulled the butcher’s knife from beneath her robe and began swinging against another employee, who managed to wrestle her to the ground. A fourth employee ran over to help and was able to pry the knife from Dughmosh’s hand as someone called 911.
“Why did you come in here?” asked employee Kyle Craig. “Because of ISIS?”

“Yes,” replied Dughmosh. “When you kill us, we will kill you … When you kill Muslims, you have to pay for it from your blood.”

Dughmosh went on to explain she’d previously tried to leave Canada to join ISIS but was turned back at the Turkish border, the statement of facts says.

“In the meantime, you’re going to kill people in Canada?” asked Craig. “Why, what’s that gonna give you?”

“Revenge … to stop killing Muslims in Syria and Iraq. You’re killing ISIS, I’m from ISIS,” Dughmosh said, according to the statement. No one was seriously injured in the attack.

Disappointed she hadn’t hurt anyone

In the hours after her arrest, Dughmosh admitted the real reason for her April 2016 trip to Turkey. It was not to visit family. Instead, it was to join ISIS and live with them in the Caliphate.
Speaking to investigators with the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), Dughmosh admitted she’d been an ISIS supporter since 2014, having made a unilateral pledge of allegiance to its leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.

Dughmosh was interviewed by the RCMP the previous year, after her attempt to get to Syria via the Turkish border city of Gazantiep. But it wasn’t until after the attempted attack at the Canadian Tire in 2017 that investigators understood her intentions, according to the statement.

Dughmosh told investigators she was “disappointed” she’d failed to hurt anyone during the attack. But she was happy with what she’d done, she said. The important thing was to try.
Staggering array of weapons

A search of Dughmosh’s home after the Canadian Tire incident turned up a staggering array of weapons, including a black duffel bag with knives, scissors, and a child’s shovel converted into claws.

There was much more: a red cart with a hammer, two arrows, 31 barbecue skewers, 76 straws with screws glued to the tip; and a red bag containing 36 other handmade weapons.

Investigators also found two propaganda videos by the ISIS media arm, each viewed several times over in the previous weeks.

Dughmosh, investigators found, had also written a will. In it she asked that God “grant me martyrdom for His sake, for the elevation of his religion and to take revenge from the criminal infidels.”…

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  1. Terry Gain says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 8:18 am

    I expect the Judge to go easy on her as she also used a golf club in the attack. Her lawyer will point out that the golf club was a one iron and, as everyone knows, no one can hit a one iron.

    • Rarely says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 11:48 am

      LOL. Very good point. It certainly would go to “intent”. Kind of like a bow without arrows. Oh yeah, she had one of those too. And a head without a brain.

  2. Eric says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 10:39 am

    Is it law now in the Islamic Republic of Canada defendants can appear in court with their faces totally concealed except for the eyes? How do they know it’s the right defendant?

    It’s a sad day when Western governments, heads of state, and elected officials kowtow, bend over backwards, backpedal, and walk on eggshells to accommodate muslims in almost every way possible now. No sir we dare not offend them by criticizing their religious political ideology of peace created by a man of low morals for other men of low morals to subjugate women and to kill and enslave others with impunity, their deified prophet Mum’s dead, their mythical non-existent deity Aha, or the holy book of nothing but peaceful scripture. Employers must give them time, with pay most likely, to pray five times daily while not accommodating members of other religions and their requirements. Should Arabic now be the official language of the world in order to accommodate these noble peaceful people that we can all communicate?

    • Jayme says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 10:45 am

      Some time ago they more or less banned the lords pray from public schools in Ontario saying religion has no place in schools then in 2014 rumors started to surface about muslim prey room in schools people said no and in 2016 it was confirmed yes there are rooms turned into muslim prey rooms.

      • Terry Gain says

        Jan 18, 2019 at 9:11 pm

        Not more or less. Totally. And I would say it happened about 60 years ago. I love the way you spelled prey rooms. It’s appropriate.

  3. Renate says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 10:39 am

    My hat is off to Rehab Dughmosh. She was so clear about her intent that she even pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi at one point right in the court room before the judge. This woman made it almost impossible for Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party to spin this story any other way, so they had to charge her with terrorism charges. Had it not been for her articulate description of what she did and why, Trudeau surely would have us believe that she was mentally ill or that is was a plain old assault or anything that didn’t involve terrorism. Way to go, Rehab!

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:01 am

    Most of the details of this attack were concealed at the time by the so-called “journalists” working for the Canadian news media.

    Only after they were revealed in court do we now know the HORROR of what this woman tried to do, but was unable to do through INCOMPETENCE, STUPIDITY and BAD LUCK.

    While most Muslims do not support terrorism, 15% of Muslims worldwide DO SUPPORT TERRORISM.

    Less than 1% of Muslims are interested in actually conducting JIHAD TERRORISM themselves.

    In Western countries, there will be about 1,000-2,000 JIHADISTS per every 1 million Muslims in each country.

    The Liberal government of Canada is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood’s front organizations and seems determined to bring in as many Muslims as possible. Canada probably has about 2,000 JIHAD-READY Muslims at the moment, with numbers to escalate to 4,000 – 5,000 jihad-ready Muslims if the Liberal governments schemes continue.

    • Jayme says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 12:15 pm

      The Star has got into trouble as of late by having muslim reporters trying to down play Isis etc.

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:03 am

    HER MOTIVE WAS REVENGE/RETRIBUTION FOR CANADA’S WAR AGAINST ISIS …

    Retribution is a COMPULSORY Islamic teaching! Even though Muslims live in the West benefiting from the blessings of freedom, the rule of law and prosperity, they still bring the Honor-Shame Paradigm with them. Honor is restored to a Muslim through the shedding of blood. No kafir is ‘innocent’. All kafirs deserve to be killed only because they reject Mohammed. The citizens of an entire kafir country can be held responsible because they taxes to support their military which attacks jihadists overseas. Islam thus considers all civilians legitimate targets for revenge in settling a matter of Islamic honor.

    -K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”

    -K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”

    – K.5:33 “The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari

    -Imam AbdulLatif ibn AbdurRahman rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be hostile against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t hostile against the mushrikeen, then it can’t be said that he acts upon Tawheed, nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]

  6. Rarely says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:43 am

    Her actions will backfire big time. Every time a fully covered muslima commits a terrorist act by hiding weaponry under their full body covering the less tolerant the general public will be of this attire.
    She is a pitiful human being. Anyone who carries such vile hatred invariably has a miserable existence. Unfortunately, misery doesn’t “like” company, it insists upon it.

    • Jayme says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 3:44 pm

      If you look at the last 20 years each time something like this happens the left says we need to change the culture and be more Islamic some even say the war museum is anti muslim and should be torn down.

  7. 762x51FMJ says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 12:23 pm

    Her handicap is so high she deserves a hole in one head..

  8. Tom says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    Good for her brother for informing the RCMP and for her husband for taking away the knives. The RCMP dropped the ball and this terrorist was allowed to attack people in Canadian Tire. Possibly dueto political pressure from the Trudeau government policies regarding the investigation and surveillance of terror suspects.

    Remember Trudeau said “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” and the message is loud and clear to police.

    • Renate says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 4:35 pm

      Yes. “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” even when a terrorist is throwing her citizenship right back in Trudeau’s face because she despises it as much as Rehab Dughmosh obviously does.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    Canada: Muslima tried to join the Islamic State, cops did nothing; then she attacked people with a butcher knife
    ………………..

    Suicidal insanity–putting the Canadian public in danger. How could the police not have foreseen this?

  10. Mirren10 says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 7:31 am

    ”The RCMP notified Turkish authorities, who refused her entry into the country and put her on the next flight back to Toronto.”

    And if the RCMP had just let her go, and the government had rescinded the evil bint’s passport, no *Canadians* would have been endangered. She would most likely have been killed; *Now* the Canadian taxpayer’s will have to foot the bill for this evil bitch’s trial, and imprisonment, which will no doubt include halal meals, prayer rugs, visits from an imam, and plenty of opportunity for da’wa.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 7:44 pm

      +1

  11. Edward Cline says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 11:07 am

    What are female jihadists promised if they’re declared “martyrs” ? 72 virgins? If they are (and the query has never been answered, to my knowledge), is it logically implied that they’re lesbians? The assumption that female “martyrs” qualify for rewards by Allah-Walla defies the bizarre “logic” in Islam. But then, there is no logic in the whole deranged corpus of Islam..

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 7:46 pm

      No–no virgins of either gender for female “martyrs”–they just get to stay out of hell.

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