Terrorism – Domestic – Page 5

Some easy steps on terror front

… Seventy-eight per cent of 30,746 immigration investigations in 2022-23 ended with CBSA’s determination that the individual in question was “inadmissible” to Canada. There are many reasons why you might be found “inadmissible,” including security concerns, human rights violations, criminal record, misrepresentation, health issues, a loss of refugee status, etc. That’s not a one-off: CBSA inadmissibility findings were even higher in 2021 and 2022.

If the vast majority of CBSA investigations turn up troubling information, it’s frightening to think our immigration screeners missed a publicly available ISIS execution video where Ahmed Eldidi allegedly dismembered “a spy” in Western Iraq prior to being granted Canadian citizenship. Was this a case of bad luck, underfunding, or inadequate training at our embassy in Egypt?

No. 1 – STOP IMPORTIMNG MUSLIMS

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2024August 7, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic, USA

Why Are Some Forms of Terrorist Violence Not Labelled as Terrorism?

If you regularly scan the headlines of major news sources of late you will have noted a curious tendency. When it comes to terrorism, the only stories which seem to get any traction are those which lament the “rise” in what is widely termed “far-right extremism.” This umbrella description covers everything from neo-Nazis to white supremacists to anti-vaxxers to, believe it or not, violent “incels” (involuntary celibates who apparently target women out of frustration over their lack of sexual gratification).

We are led to accept that this form of terrorism is ubiquitous, on the increase, and poses some kind of “existential threat” to Western societies. Even our public safety ministry here in Canada is keen to trumpet this menace, although they have elected to label it “ideologically-motivated violent extremism“ or IMVE (as if not all terrorism is, at its core, ”ideological”).

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2024May 24, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic

Canada’s eco-extremism threat is flying under the radar

The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties

The rhetoric surrounding “decolonization” and identity politics, coupled with exaggerated concerns about climate change, is giving rise to a dangerous form of eco-extremism that is spreading unchecked across the country.

This trend is vividly illustrated by the February 2022 terrorist assault on a Coastal GasLink pipeline project site in British Columbia. Approximately 20 masked assailants armed with axes and flare guns descended upon the site, instilling fear among security personnel and workers and causing an estimated $20 million in damages, as reported by B.C.’s Independent Contractors and Business Association.

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2024April 5, 2024•0•"Environmentalists", Terrorism - Domestic

The Terrorist: How a devout Christian kid became a radicalized mass murderer

They were standing at the corner that would become an intersection of good and evil. They were innocents waiting for the light to change at Hyde Park and South Carriage roads in London, Ont., so they could safely cross. A dark-haired man. Two women wearing kameezes, traditional Muslim clothing. A couple of kids — a teenaged girl and a little boy — who would make everyone take notice.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2024March 16, 2024•0•Terrorism - Domestic

Actions of man who killed 4 members of Muslim family in London, Ont. constitute terrorism, judge rules

During a sentencing hearing on Thursday morning, a judge ruled Nathaniel Veltman’s actions on June 6, 2021 constitute terrorism.

Veltman, 23, was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk on June 6, 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2024February 22, 2024•0•Terrorism - Domestic

MANDEL: The worthlessness of an incel terrorist’s apology

He is the first incel to be sentenced as a terrorist in Canada.

Now 21 and identified only as O.S., he sat lumpen in the prisoner’s box with no sign of emotion as words of anguish filled the courtroom from the family of the single young mother he hacked to death three years ago.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2023October 13, 2023•0•Terrorism - Domestic

Racist NYC subway shooter Frank James sentenced to rot in prison for wounding 10 in terrorist attack

Subway shooter Frank James — who opened fire on a packed Brooklyn subway train, hitting 10 people and igniting terror underground in April 2022 — will spend the rest of his days behind bars, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

James, 64, was sentenced to life in prison by Brooklyn federal Judge William F. Kuntz for the bloody April 12, 2022, attack that seriously injured subway commuters and petrified the city.

Prosecutors had asked for James to get 10 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment for the “careful and prolonged planning” that went into the attack, according to court papers.

by Blazingcatfur•October 6, 2023October 5, 2023•0•terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic, USA

‘It’s me, it was me that did it’: Video and 911 call captured alleged white-nationalist terrorist moments after London attack

WINDSOR—Moments after he drove into a Muslim family in an alleged terrorist act, accused killer Nathaniel Veltman steered his heavily damaged pickup truck into a near-empty London parking lot, stopped next to a taxi cab, then knelt on the ground and surrendered to police.

Video played at Veltman’s murder trial Tuesday showed the immediate minutes after a June 6, 2021, collision that killed four members of a London Muslim family, and the arrest without incident of their alleged killer.

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2023September 12, 2023•0•Terrorism - Domestic

Crown alleges Veltman inspired by white nationalism, planned to kill Muslims

WINDSOR, Ont. – Federal prosecutors are arguing that a man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in Ontario was motivated by white nationalist beliefs, branding the attack as an act of terrorism.

Nathaniel Veltman is accused of deliberately hitting five members of the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk in London, Ont., on the evening of June 6, 2021.

Good timing.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2023September 11, 2023•0•Terrorism - Domestic

Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part

Maryland’s top utility regulator was watching the news one February morning when a headline blindsided him: Two suspects with neo-Nazi ties had been charged with plotting to take down Baltimore’s power grid.

Jason Stanek, the then-chair of the state’s Public Service Commission, said Maryland regulators were “caught flat-footed,” not hearing a word from law enforcement before the news broke — or in the months afterward. Federal prosecutors have alleged the defendants were driven by “racially motivated hatred” to try to cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in the state’s largest city, which has a predominantly Black population.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2023September 11, 2023•0•terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic

London braces for a mass murder trial with a rare twist

Within a week of one of London’s darkest days, accused murderer Nathaniel Veltman was told during an early court appearance that the case against him would be pursued as a terrorist offence.

In the chaos and sadness of those days in June 2021, after four members of a Pakistani Muslim family were killed and one badly injured in a hit-and-run collision, federal and provincial prosecutors announced the terrorism charges as the justice system began to process the case.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2023September 3, 2023•0•Canada, Terrorism - Domestic

How the 1970s liberation movement led to today’s identity battles

The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed a wave of radical, left-wing “liberation” movements emerge across the globe. Led by counter-culture philosophers and academics, these self-described “freedom fighters” embarked on campaigns of violence and terror to promote their often utopian ideals. Within a decade, most of these groups were either jailed, disbanded or dead — leaving the far left to develop new forms of protest that would be both effective and culturally acceptable. And found their most fertile ground in America’s academic institutions.

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2023July 17, 2023•0•Terrorism - Domestic, USA

Canada’s ‘Counterinsurgency Doctrine’ Is Up For Review. It Warns About Labour Unrest

The Canadian military’s 15-year old “Counterinsurgency Doctrine,” which is up for review this year, includes long paragraphs about the need to be on the lookout for “strikes” and “absenteeism,” and to screen for “disloyal” workers among labour pools during insurgency operations. More broadly, it warns about armed uprisings drawing on support from “disaffected” and “unemployed” people across the world.

The Canadian Armed Forces’ 249-page doctrine was first drafted in 2008 with the expectation that “future operations” would likely involve wars against “insurgencies” at home and abroad. It warns about “passive” forms of protest and labour disobedience alongside “terrorism” as examples of insurgent strategies.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2023July 4, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?

Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81

Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics, businessmen and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 with the stated goal of bringing about the collapse of the modern social order — a violent spree that ended after what was often described as the longest and most costly manhunt in American history — died on Saturday. He was 81.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2023June 10, 2023•0•Terrorism - Domestic

Judge rules Toronto massage parlour murder was a terrorist act

In a precedent-setting ruling, a Superior Court of Ontario judge has ruled the murder of a female employee and the attempted murder of another female employee at a North York spa in February 2020 did meet the Criminal Code definition of a terrorist activity, motivated in whole or in part by the misogynistic incel ideology.

Justice Suhail Akhtar delivered his bottom-line ruling over Zoom. His reasons for the decision will follow at a later date.

by Blazingcatfur•June 6, 2023June 6, 2023•0•Canada, terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?