Jihad Watch reported on an attack in Toronto on February 26; charges against 30-year-old Saad Akhtar were changed from murder to “murder-terrorist activity.” Akhtar gave himself up to police after his brutal, random hammer attack against 64-year-old Hang-Kam Annie Chiuto. Akhtar’s mother reported that “he walked an hour every day to a mosque and back but did not return home on Friday night as usual.” Police attempted to reassure the public by saying that the attack appeared to be “an isolated incident and there is no further known threat to the public associated to the accused at this time,” a hasty conclusion given the nature of the attack, and so soon in the investigation. I also noted in the Jihad Watch report that the Global News article ended with a truth that is rarely stated in the mainstream media:
The so-called Islamic State has since 2014 been urging followers to conduct attacks using readily-available weapons such as knives and vehicles.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s latest annual report said extremists inspired by ISIS and Al Qaeda were “the number one national security threat to public safety in this country. Investigating these threats remains a top priority for CSIS.”
As it turns out, Global News was correct in implying a possible link to the Islamic State:
Police have not explained why they suspect the killing was terrorism-related, but Global News has learned the decision stemmed from Akhtar’s statements concerning the so-called Islamic State….Toronto hammer killing was consistent with recent international attacks in which ISIS supporters have acted alone and used everyday objects such as knives as weapons. Police are also investigating written materials they found.
In 2018, Breitbart News reported:
Leaked documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) show that the intelligence service is far more concerned with Islamic terrorism behind closed doors than the left-wing Trudeau government will admit in public.
And last September, an Israeli-Arab man who lives in Halifax stated that he has helped CSIS track ISIS supporters in Canada, and instead of them being brought to justice, he was the one who was deported. But “neither CSIS or the office of the Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale would comment.”
In an interview with Global News, he said fears for his safety if returned to the Middle East and wants the government to halt his removal, citing the work he said he did to keep Canadians safe from terrorism.
“The people I provided info on will stay here, they will get citizenship,” he said. “I will be removed.”
Speaking on the condition that Global News not reveal his identity, the man provided compelling evidence that he worked for CSIS for several years, helping with cases involving ISIS, Iran and Hezbollah.
“ISIS supporters have plotted and carried out a handful of attacks in Canadian cities over the past six years,” but the brutal attack on Hang-Kam Annie Chiuto “would be the first to claim a life (other than that of the attacker) since October 2014.”
“Suspect’s alleged statements about ISIS led to terrorism charge over Toronto hammer attack: sources,” by Stewart Bell, Global News, March 16, 2020:
Every morning, Hang-Kam Annie Chiu left her basement suite in Scarborough and walked to the local Tim Hortons, where she ordered a large coffee with two creams.
She would sit by the window with a group of seniors who met daily, helping them with their English, holding the door for them and making sure they got to their buses on time.
“She helped people,” an employee said. “She was amazing.”
At 64, Chiu was looking forward to retirement in September. But three weeks ago, she allegedly became Canada’s latest victim of terrorism.
On the evening of Friday, Feb. 21, she was on a sidewalk between the rice pasta factory where she worked and her home when a man armed with a hammer took her life.
Three hours later, Saad Akhtar, a 30-year-old software developer, walked into the Toronto police 42 Division precinct and turned himself in.
The police station was partially evacuated over a suspicious package he allegedly left at the front desk. A bomb disposal team was called in, said Meaghan Gray, a Toronto police spokesperson.
“The package was rendered safe and members were allowed to return to normal operations,” she said.
Akhtar was initially arrested for first-degree murder, but Toronto police then came across undisclosed evidence suggesting the killing might have been an act of terrorism.
They contacted the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team in Toronto, and on Feb. 25, the charge was changed to “murder-terrorist activity.”
Police have not explained why they suspect the killing was terrorism-related, but Global News has learned the decision stemmed from Akhtar’s statements concerning the so-called Islamic State.
Police are also investigating written materials they found.
ISIS supporters have plotted and carried out a handful of attacks in Canadian cities over the past six years, but this would be the first to claim a life (other than that of the attacker) since October 2014.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for Chiu’s killing, but an expert said ISIS had historically tended to do so only when the attacker was killed.
“I would be very curious to find out what exactly he said about the Islamic State,” said Prof. Amarnath Amarasingam, a Queen’s University terrorism expert who researches ISIS.
He would like to know whether the suspect pledged allegiance to ISIS, or said he was responding to western military attacks on the group. He said the choice of target made little sense, being neither military, police or infrastructure.
“It signals, though, that the Islamic State, even with thousands of its fighters behind bars and holding no territory, still continues to inspire individuals to engage in low-level attacks,” Amarasingam said….
Dude says
Lordy, Lordy. Them there Canucks finally got something right.
Frank Zarzar says
Time to get serious about this ever growing menace! Deport and prevent immigration of these killers. Accept this is a war and respond accordingly.
Bev McMullan-Kungl says
We have to get rid of the traitorous Turd in Ottawa first. He’s the one who wants these scumbags in our country.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed! This is war. A war of conquest, waged most effectively by Demographic Jihadis. They all need to go! The West must become Islam-free if it is to survive.
Goofy says
It is safe to say that all Muslims’ killing of infidels are isolated events. So why all these isolated events? Well, it might have something to do with the Koran and it’s commands. And it might have something to do with the preachings of the imams.
If the police would interview the imam who instructed the devout Muslim murderer (which they would never do because that would be Islamophobic and be in breach of the freedom of religion) they would never obtain evidence that the imam instructed this devout Muslim to hammer the infidels to death. Muslims are not stupid, they don’t need to be told to hammer the infidels to death, it is enough to tell them that the infidels ought to die and that it would please Allah to make that a reality with whatever implement the faithful Muslim may have at his disposal.
Please don’t expect to find an intricately well coordinated system behind these murders. It is not necessary to produce this kind of hate killings. It is all in the Koran, and it is high time that we take a closer look at what it commands because that is incompatible with civilized society and the rule of law.
Michael Copeland says
Congratulations to Stewart Bell of Global News for allowing a little bit of reality to penetrate the report.
For more reality see “Islam’s Agenda: Muslims Speak”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
mortimer says
INTERNATIONAL JIHAD is on the streets of once-sedate Toronto, but the generally Leftarded and LIbtarded Toronto politicians are in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood, so they won’t speak out against the jihad or demand the investigation of Salafi mosques.
Bob Thompson says
Just sayin…
“The ‘peaceful’ Jihad in America
By Andrew C. McCarthy
https://nypost.com/2010/06/01/the-peaceful-jihad-in-america/
Most Americans don’t realize that jihad is about much more than terrorism.
Even the terrorists don’t blow up buildings for the sake of blowing up buildings. There is method in their madness.
Jihad is not mindless mass-murder, nor is it a syrupy “internal struggle to become a better person.” No, jihad is the mission to establish and spread sharia.
The installation of Allah’s law, believed by Muslims to be a divine injunction, is the necessary precondition to the creation of Islamic societies. While it can, and often is, waged forcibly, Islamists don’t resort to violence (or, at least, to more violence) where surrenders, appeasements and capitulations are available.”
mortimer says
The kindly Hang-Kam Annie Chiu was heinously murdered by this hate-filled ideology. Aren’t Muslims ashamed to be part of this Death Cult?
elee says
Muslims know no (responsibility or) shame for doing the bidding of al Lah. K 81:30; 2:217; 33:37.
gravenimage says
The terrible thing is that most Muslims are *proud* of the horrors of Jihad.
David says
Mortimer, some maybe, but most tacitly go along with it. They just deny it:”Notjhing to do with islam. It is a ‘religion of peace'” That absolves their ‘conscience’/
elee says
And has it occurred to Canada to investigate whoever weaponised this feeble-minded soldier of al Lah?
gravenimage says
Good question. In a sane society police would take a very close look at that Mosque.
Bob Thompson says
You make it seem like radicalization or being “weaponised” is only the result of someone(s) giving them what I will refer to as ‘special instruction.’
Aren’t the Koran, Hadith and Sira by themselves enough to tell a believer what he should do as a Jihadi?
gravenimage says
Also true, Bob.
James Lincoln says
Anytime law enforcement sees a lot of very similar isolated events, they need to be able to connect the dots…
gravenimage says
Toronto: Hammer-wielding Muslim who killed 64-year-old woman made statements about the Islamic State
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At least Toronto police are taking a clear-eyed look at this this time, unlike the usual willful denial.
More:
“I would be very curious to find out what exactly he said about the Islamic State,” said Prof. Amarnath Amarasingam, a Queen’s University terrorism expert who researches ISIS.
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Another bit of sanity. Amarnath Amarasingam is Sri Lankan and does not appear to be Muslim, unlike so many “terrorism experts”.
Bob Thompson says
“Police have not explained why they suspect the killing was terrorism-related…”
Because that is as close as the politically correct/tone deaf Western law comes to understanding the true nature of Islam, Sharia and Jihad?
Bob Thompson says
““I would be very curious to find out what exactly he said about the Islamic State,” said Prof. Amarnath Amarasingam, a Queen’s University terrorism expert who researches ISIS.”
I wonder if every Muslim laughs to himself whenever they hear a believer use ISIS as the boogeyman whenever a fellow Muslim commits an act of violent Jihad.
Yeah, right! Like only “certified” ISIS members adhere to Islamic teachings.
E T says
Sachs Trudeau was appointed by his brother as a close advisor. Sachs Trudeau also co-produced a documentary while in Iran titled “ The New Great Game”. This documentary explained that Iran’s nuclear program is for “defensive “ purposes only, a “deterrent” against Israeli aggression and belligerence. Al Jazeera Arabic, the media mouth piece for Qutar, under the influence of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood hoods, was also a contributor to the project.
In the documentary “The Fence”, Sachs Trudeau profiled Zaharia Zubeidi, then leader of the terrorists group Al Aqua Martyrs Brigades, portraying him as a Robin Hood-like leader of the resistance. Al Aqua, the military arm of Hamas, which describes itself as the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. The Trudeau boys seem to be consistent supporters of the Brotherhood hoods. When speaking with Islamists, Justine refers to “shared beliefs”, “shared set of values” and “shared vision”.
Terror financing in Canada is increasing and putting the Canadian people at greater risk.
As for the number of peoplekind who have died at the hands of terrorists, we will never know the exact numbers. Sarah Anne Widholm, the 75 year old woman from Windsor, Ontario, who was beaten so badly by the 21 year old Muslim man, and remained in a coma for 14 months, before she died.
The 14 women who were shot and killed and the 10 wounded women and 4men, who Gamil Rodrique Liass Gharbi / Marc Levine
The Danforth shooter in Toronto, Faisal Hussain, who shot and killed 2 sweet very young girls, and wounded severely how many and changed their lives forever.
Good fortune for Canadians Faisal’s brother, Farad, fell into a coma while toying with 42 kilos of carfentanil, God only knows what his plans were—just enough carfentanil to kill everyone in Canada.
The old lady walking down Young Street in Toronto and was struck from behind and died.
The young fireman who was stabbed in the back of the head while sitting in an outdoor cafe on Young Street and died.
The 8 year old boy from Windsor who was stabbed in the back of his head by a 30 some odd year old , with a screw driver, while he was walking to the corner store, he will live and has learned how to walk again.
The border has been closed between Canada and the US to stop the spread of Coronavirus, but still the “irregular border crossers” are entering Canada at Roxham Road. The question is when will the Canadian people stand up and stop the population replacement that Justine Trudeau, Freeland, Iqra Khalid, Omar Alghabra, Ahmed Hussein and the Liberal Party, the Imam like Mazin Abdul-Adhim have been pushing for years?
What will be “The Final Solution”?
E T says
Should say Sacha Trudeau
Giacomo Latta says
‘They contacted the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team in Toronto, and on Feb. 25, the charge was changed to “murder-terrorist activity.” ‘
No member of the Toronto Police Force know enough of Islam to know the Friday virus when they see it? Stick to your street parking duties, boys and girls, and leave the categorization of murders to the specialists.
David says
Does the change of offence have a different sentence?
Giacomo Latta says
When someone tries to academically analyze crime involving Islam the answer will be zero when it should be in the hundreds if not thousands if the classification of the crime is incorrect. As for sentence lengths, the sentence for murder-terrorism should, repeat, should, be longer than simple murder as in the former case two criminal acts are being committed: murder and terrorism.
OLD GUY says
Execute him as he did that poor women. Deporting him will just give him the opportunity to wage more terror.
He’s not going to change his islamic brothers will hail him as a hero in his home country.
unbeliever1 says
To Trudeau and the left, the main threat to National Security would be Global Warming.
Barb. says
Global warming LOL is not a threat. Our planet changes all the time. Man is a threat! Viruses are a threat!. Sharia law is a threat!. All you have to do is look at UK and what has happened there, to understand what a threat is. We need intelligent, common sense people, in the government and police force. It’s time to wake up Canada!!!!!!
David says
Trudeau has the blood of this poor innocent victim on his hands.