Monday, January 30, 2017 2:01:41 AM
Quebec City mosque shooting: At least six killed, eight injured in 'terrorist attack', officials say
Updated 12 minutes ago
Video: A witness said up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the mosque. (ABC News)
Map: Canada .. http://www.google.com/maps/place/Canada/@60,-95,5z
A shooting at a Quebec mosque during Sunday night prayers which killed six people was a terrorist attack, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
Key points:
* Police confirm deaths in shooting but don't give number
* Witness said about 40 people inside mosque at the time
* Mosque's president says injured people taken to hospitals across Quebec City
"We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge," Mr Trudeau said in a statement.
A Quebec police spokesman said six people died in the attack and eight people were injured. Police said two suspects were arrested.
A witness said heavily armed tactical police entered the mosque, but a police spokesman declined to say whether there was a gunman inside.
Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre.
"Why is this happening here? This is barbaric," said the mosque's president, Mohamed Yangui.
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Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau
Tonight, Canadians grieve for those killed in a cowardly attack on a mosque
in Quebec City. My thoughts are with victims & their families.
2:35 PM - 30 Jan 2017
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Mr Yangui, who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers.
He did not know how many were injured, saying they had been taken to different hospitals across Quebec City.
Mosque had been targeted before
Photo: Dozens of people were said to be inside the mosque at the time of the shooting.
(Reuters: Mathieu Belanger)
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said it was an act of "barbaric violence" and expressed solidarity with victims' families.
Zebida Bendjeddou, who left the mosque earlier on Sunday evening, said the centre had received threats.
"In June, they'd put a pig's head in front of the mosque," she said.
"But we thought: 'Oh, they're isolated events'. We didn't take it seriously. But tonight, those isolated events, they take on a different scope."
Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab, or Muslim face covering.
In 2013, a mosque in the Saguenay region of Quebec was splattered with what was believed to be pig blood.
In the neighbouring province of Ontario, a mosque was set on fire in 2015, a day after an attack by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris.
Reuters/AP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/several-dead-in-quebec-city-mosque-shooting-mosque-reports-say/8223638
Guess that may not have anything to do with his public disagreeing with trump's original executive order immigration/return ban, as the
mosque has been targeted before, yet the timing is such that this attack could have something to do with his welcome to immigrants.
I think you're right about Trudeau being a nice guy, who is trying to balance his responsibilities to the
best of his ability, and so inevitably will hold positions which are disagreeable to someone, or other.
Trudeau attacked from all sides over pipeline stance
By Charles Mandel & Mike De Souza in News, Energy | April 12th 2016
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/04/12/news/trudeau-attacked-all-sides-over-pipeline-stance
Updated 12 minutes ago
Video: A witness said up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the mosque. (ABC News)
Map: Canada .. http://www.google.com/maps/place/Canada/@60,-95,5z
A shooting at a Quebec mosque during Sunday night prayers which killed six people was a terrorist attack, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
Key points:
* Police confirm deaths in shooting but don't give number
* Witness said about 40 people inside mosque at the time
* Mosque's president says injured people taken to hospitals across Quebec City
"We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge," Mr Trudeau said in a statement.
A Quebec police spokesman said six people died in the attack and eight people were injured. Police said two suspects were arrested.
A witness said heavily armed tactical police entered the mosque, but a police spokesman declined to say whether there was a gunman inside.
Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre.
"Why is this happening here? This is barbaric," said the mosque's president, Mohamed Yangui.
--
Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau
Tonight, Canadians grieve for those killed in a cowardly attack on a mosque
in Quebec City. My thoughts are with victims & their families.
2:35 PM - 30 Jan 2017
--
Mr Yangui, who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers.
He did not know how many were injured, saying they had been taken to different hospitals across Quebec City.
Mosque had been targeted before
Photo: Dozens of people were said to be inside the mosque at the time of the shooting.
(Reuters: Mathieu Belanger)
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said it was an act of "barbaric violence" and expressed solidarity with victims' families.
Zebida Bendjeddou, who left the mosque earlier on Sunday evening, said the centre had received threats.
"In June, they'd put a pig's head in front of the mosque," she said.
"But we thought: 'Oh, they're isolated events'. We didn't take it seriously. But tonight, those isolated events, they take on a different scope."
Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab, or Muslim face covering.
In 2013, a mosque in the Saguenay region of Quebec was splattered with what was believed to be pig blood.
In the neighbouring province of Ontario, a mosque was set on fire in 2015, a day after an attack by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris.
Reuters/AP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/several-dead-in-quebec-city-mosque-shooting-mosque-reports-say/8223638
Guess that may not have anything to do with his public disagreeing with trump's original executive order immigration/return ban, as the
mosque has been targeted before, yet the timing is such that this attack could have something to do with his welcome to immigrants.
I think you're right about Trudeau being a nice guy, who is trying to balance his responsibilities to the
best of his ability, and so inevitably will hold positions which are disagreeable to someone, or other.
Trudeau attacked from all sides over pipeline stance
By Charles Mandel & Mike De Souza in News, Energy | April 12th 2016
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/04/12/news/trudeau-attacked-all-sides-over-pipeline-stance
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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