Prosecutors wanted a life sentence, but apparently that would have been “Islamophobic.”
Note how this news story and everyone quoted in it scrupulously avoids discussing why Abdulahi Hasan Sharif did this in the first place.
“Man who tried to kill Edmonton police officer sentenced to 28 years,” Canadian Press, December 13, 2019:
A man who tried to kill a police officer then mowed down four pedestrians in downtown Edmonton in what RCMP characterized as a terrorist attack was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison.
Abdulahi Hasan Sharif was given an 18-year sentence for attempted murder for slamming his car into the officer, then stabbing him multiple times, in September 2017.
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Paul Belzil also handed Sharif four 10-year sentences for striking the pedestrians with a U-Haul truck.
Those concurrent sentences will be served after Sharif’s 18-year term for trying to kill Const. Michael Chernyk.
Outside the courthouse on Friday, Supt. Stacey Talbot, who runs the RCMP’s integrated national security enforcement team in Alberta, confirmed an ISIS flag was found in Sharif’s car and that police still believe it was a terrorist attack.
But, Talbot said, officials did not pursue terrorism charges because the other charges were deemed to have a better chance of conviction.
Deliberately targetedChernyk testified during the trial that he was on traffic duty outside an Edmonton Eskimos game when he was struck by a car. He next remembered a man on top of him, stabbing him in the head with a knife….
Crown prosecutors had argued that Sharif deserved a maximum life sentence for the targeted attack on the police officer, and 20 years to be served concurrently for fleeing from police and trying to kill the pedestrians….
“There is no evidence that he is remorseful for his attack,” the judge said….
andra says
In Germany he would get fifteen years the most, because we do not count each murder for itself.
tom parry says
15 Years at a “holiday resort” , threapy, swim lessons, daily excursions, tv, internet, plus sympathy form woke Germans. Good behavior 7 years and free care for life.
John ward says
In England he would’ve gotten innocent because of temporary insanity
Lion Heart says
Thank to our prime minister ( Justin IGNORANT Trudeau ) for FLOODING Canada with Muslims ! And when we Canadian Christians originally from Iraq say that Islam is pure evil and Canada should not take in any Muslim , we are accused of being racist ? Just because we know the consequences of Muslim immigrants to the West especially in Canada , and we know the evil of Islam more than any other nation in the world since its rise as we have been suffering from it ever since especially after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime ! iFinally I will said it again as a proverb said by our Christian ancestors many centuries ago “ if a Muslim is a piece of gold, then don’t put it in your pocket otherwise it will rip through “ meaning they will betray and stab Christians and other non Muslims in the back when they get the chance and power to do it “ .
Rashida Khan says
Certain crimes, like this one, should carry a mandatory sentence for chemical castration.
End PC says
Active terrorist who attempted massive slaughter should be given only the death penalty, and not just because they deserve it.
Ferd III says
Another Moslem Jihad attack, the Fake News et al call it mental illness if they bother to report it at all, neighbours are shocked (he was such a nice man), local Imam has never heard of him (though he saw him every Friday), unemployment office workers where he collected his welfare, maintain he was funny and tolerant, his family, all on welfare, said he was suffering stress from racism and Moslemophobia from White Canadians, friends said he was stressed because he could not play hockey and due to racism was unable to join a team….etc etc etc
Truedope and friend will have this Moslem out in 10 years. Sucking on the Welfare teat with his extended family.
Archangel Raphael says
Don’t forget the several “wives” and multiple families . . .
elee says
28 years nominal, how many weeks is that in real calendar time? Maybe theres a Canadian out there who can tell us. I dont think, after all the millions spent investigating, prosecuting and housing him…….I dont think the whole expenditure neutralised this one criminal.
Jayme says
In Canada you serve half your sentence so that brings it down to about 14 years then if he is good that will shave a couple more years off my guess is he will be out in 10 years.
elee says
Thanks Jayme! No age given in the story so lets assume based on the photo that hes 38, that means he gets out a 48, by no means incapacitated by age, and with his criminal skills and Muslim faith honed by a decade of state-subsidised dawa. This does not constitute neutralising the opposition. And if it turns out hes 28 now, then he gets out at 38.
Jayme says
The other issues is some jails have a very large muslim population so he could come out far more radical then he is now.
gravenimage says
Jayme, This Jihadist tried to murder five people, including a police officer. How can he be more “radical” than he is now?
gravenimage says
Grimly likely, Jayme. Also, many prisoners are receiving reduced sentences these days even without good behavior.
Jayme says
5 People is far to many but a few have tried much more take the Toronto 18 or Via Rail if they were not stopped in both of those cases who knows how many would have died or got hurt.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Jayme.
barbaracvm1 says
Any attack on the police should receive the death penalty. It should 28 years for each person attacked. Served one after another. Never concurrently.
Stan Lore says
I don’t usually bother to respond – BUT THIS IS A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE!!! 5 counts of attempted murder (vehicular) with great bodily injury, and the knife attack to begin with, deserves a natural life sentence, as he would receive in many states south of the Canadian border. Terrorist attack or no, this scumbag should die in prison.
gravenimage says
Canada: Muslim who mowed down four pedestrians and tried to murder cop gets only 28 years
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And, as other posters have noted, he will likely be out early, where he can take another stab at murdering Canadian Infidels. Suicidal madness.
More:
“There is no evidence that he is remorseful for his attack,” the judge said….
……………….
Well, duh…
UNCLE VLADDI says
Actually, he only got 18 years,* with 3 off for pre-trial custody (therefore 15 years – so he’ll be out in 5).
In Canada, unlike the ‘States, sentences are served concurrently (at the same time) not consecutively.
Since he’s only 32 now, that means he’ll still only be 37 at most (assuming he’s not out in 3 for good behaviour). A 35-37-year-old male Somali muslim who was coddled in a muslim prison gang, and who learned new ways to jihad in prison, will remain a clear and present danger (to again use only American terms) when he gets out. But hey, this complicit virtue-signaling “judge” still gets to pretend he sent the strongest message possible, because the equally-complicit enemedia eat up such pro-muslim stories.
*The 10-year sentences are to be served at the same time as the longest, 18-years one.
Giacomo Latta says
”officials did not pursue terrorism charges because other charges …”
So terrorism and attempted murder have no overlap? I have seen less significant cases where a perp is hit with 120 different charges. Charge him with terrorism and let him try to talk his way out of it.
Giacomo Latta says
Furthermore, does this count as an act of terrorism for statistical purposes or just as reckless driving?
Ric says
Liberalism, the Neo-Lefts’ shake-and-bake politics, of political correctness with a weighty dollop appeasement to mollify the Muslim horde is not earth-shattering. Canada, under its Mullah leadership, does not suffer from Islamic terror; the non-Muslims are the real anti-Semites, hate-mongers, and aspirant mass-murderers. Trudeau, a self-anointed deity, differs not from others of the West’s Liberal faux-Democrats.
This Canadian Muslim’s twenty-eight-year sentence or the so-called Honor Killing Muslima granted a five-hour reprieve from prison encapsulates the death-wish Trudeau, the EU, and others of this Liberal-Fascist disorder have placed on their non-Muslim populace. Trudeau and his counterparts deem Islam a Religion of peace, while they run amok spewing hatred, murder, and mayhem throughout the West. Trudeau, his Liberal Party, and deluded disciples, groupies, will continue until voters’ leadership prospects are improved.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Liberals are habitual hypocrites – paranoid (“You’re all always out to get me!”) masochists (“So I’m always your victim!”) who are all about being “libertines” as in always being delinquent to their Golden Rule of Law responsibility to not attack thereby innocent other people first, while reserving the right to not be attacked first by anyone else. They are all about double standards, where only they should have rights to pleasures without any painful reciprocal responsibilities, while everyone else should have no right to defend them selves from the liberals, but only the responsibility to become and remain their slaves.
Being all about subjective double standards also means they hate, avoid, ignore, and attack the single objective standard of logic, facts, and truth – and as such, they are also “psycho-paths” (a Greek word which literally means “thought-killers”) and “Schizo-phrenes” (another Greek word, meaning “split-skulls”). Sound familiar?
So it’s obvious that all criminals are hypocrites, and all hypocrites are criminals!