I don’t think there was any doubt in anyone’s eyes that the shooting incident in Ottawa, Canada, that killed one member of the Canadian armed forces, was the work of Islamic extremism.
Even before it was confirmed that the deceased shooter had jihadist ties to another Canadian resident charged by authorities for traveling abroad to join ISIS, political pundits and probably most people, sensed the work of radical Islam.The dead Canadian jihadist was named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, knew Hasibullah Yusufzai, the other Canadian, who continues to elude an international arrest warrant that has been place on him for
I think it’s time to start profiling ‘all’ Muslims.ÂCanadian authorities have not linked Zehaf-Bibeau to any known terrorists or terror groups, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper said investigators should learn in the coming days whether the gunman had any accomplices. It was not immediately clear whether Zehaf-Bibeau knew of Martin Couture-Rouleau, another Muslim convert from Quebec who killed one soldier and injured another in a hit-and-run attack Monday.
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Zehaf-Bibeau may also have had a family connection to Libya. Official documents list Zehaf-Bibeau’s father as a man named Bulgasem Zehaf, a Quebec businessman. The Globe and Mail cited this 2011 Washington Times report that quoted a Montreal man named as “Belgasem Zahef” who had taken part in the revolt against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. That man claimed that he had traveled from Canada to join the anti-Qaddafi rebels and had been detained for a month at an oil terminal, where he had witnessed scenes of torture.-Fox