A Muslim who stabbed two members of Canada’s military at a recruitment centre in Toronto has been acquitted of terrorism charges. The judge got it wrong. Dead wrong. While the judge acknowledged Hassan Ali was “radicalized,” he was acquitted because he didn’t belong to “a group.” It’s not about a “group,” it’s about ideology.
And this is why the obfuscation and misunderstanding of motive is so very dangerous. Judge Ian MacDonnell said Ayanle Hassan Ali’s actions in May attack did not fit the intended scope of Canadian terrorism laws. “While it is common ground that the defendant had become radicalized, there is no evidence of any connection between him and any other person or group in relation to the attack.” The connection is to Islam. The group or organization is not the cause or the problem, it is the ideology. And whether in a group, in an army, or by individual act, the motive is the same, jihad — holy war.
According to Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders, Ali said, “Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people,” during the attack.
Man accused in military centre stabbing acquitted of terror charges
The Canadian Press, May 14, 2018:Ayanle Hassan Ali is shown in a police handout photo. (ho-Toronto Police Service/The Canadian Press)
TORONTO — A man with schizophrenia who attacked soldiers at a military recruitment centre in Toronto has been acquitted of terror-related charges and found not criminally responsible for lesser offences due to mental illness.
Judge Ian MacDonnell said Ayanle Hassan Ali’s actions in May 2016 did not fit the intended scope of Canadian terrorism laws.
“While it is common ground that the defendant had become radicalized, there is no evidence of any connection between him and any other person or group in relation to the attack,” MacDonnell said in his decision Monday, noting that Ali’s radical religious and ideological beliefs were largely the result of his mental illness.
It was not parliament’s intent when crafting Canadian terror laws to cover “lone wolf” crimes like the ones committed by Ali, MacDonnell said.
MacDonnell ordered that Ali remain at a forensic psychiatry unit in Hamilton — where he has been in custody for most of the past two years — until an Ontario Review Board, comprised of mental health and legal specialists, can determine his course of care. The board has 45 days to hold an initial hearing in the case, in accordance with Ontario law.
Ali’s lawyers said outside court that their client never should have faced terror charges.
“This was a case where the Crown overreached,” defence attorney Nader Hasan said. “They had someone who they thought looked the part of the terrorist when, in reality, they had someone who committed a terrible, terrible act who is mentally ill and they should have proceeded in that fashion, rather than overreaching for terrorism.”
Ali appeared in court in the same grey suit and white, checked shirt he has worn on every day of the trial. Sitting in the accused’s box, he kept his head bowed and his hands clasped together.
He had pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted murder, three counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault causing bodily harm and one count of carrying a weapon for the purpose of committing an offence, all for the benefit or at the direction of a terror organization.
His lawyers had argued that, because he committed his actions alone and had never been in contact with any terror groups, he should be found not guilty on the terror charges and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the lesser included offences of attempted murder, assault and weapons offences — a designation that acknowledges the accused committed an offence but, as a result of a mental disorder, could not appreciate the consequences, legality or moral wrongness of their actions.
MacDonnell said he agreed with two psychiatrists who testified at trial that Ali should be found not criminally responsible for his actions.
The prosecution argued that Canadian terror laws could apply to Ali because he acted as a “terrorist group of one.”
The 2016 incident at a north Toronto military recruitment centre left at least two soldiers with minor injuries.
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Just-In Shariah…
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Interesting precedent for future ‘lone wolves’ mowing down pedestrians, shooting, stabbing, bombing or mutilating in the name of ‘allah’, if anti-terror laws were not crafted to cover such acts and actors. It is becoming a ‘hate crime’ to link islamic terror to islam.
Wasn’t this thing just another of your “moderate peace loving moslems” that you’re always going on about?
Does this mean that if I go to New Sweden (formerly known as “Canada”) that I can start sniping a mosque .. killing all kinds of moslems …. but, since I am not a “member of a group” … I’m scot-free? Then, on to the murder charges, attempted murder, etc., I can be found not guilty due to being “not criminally responsible”? New Sweden is right across the lake.
A moslem, anywhere in the world, is too close.
All ya need is to get a book printed up that tells you it is your duty to snipe mosques and you should be good to go.
Toss in some Moose sex and don’t forget to scream something like I LOVE BACON while shooting to reinforce your religion.
Bacon-hoo-ackbar!
Canada is an apartheid nation, if the potential assassin was muslim or indigenous, they would be judged by a much more forgiving and tolerant standard than a white person, who would have the book thrown at them.
Agree. Unless they start throwing these savages out it will only get worse.
Like this Airlines kicked out the jihadi muslima out for trying to impose sharia law on other in an airplane http://tinyurl.com/yaz3286w
Its Hilarious !
F–K THROWING THEM OUT HANG THEM!
A solution is long overdue !
he has schizophrenia, he heard a voice telling to do it. nothing to do with islam. the canadian law now protects islam. the internet police is monitoring web comments, be careful
I have no doubt you’re right about that last sentence — at least WRT the Islamic Puppet States of N. America.
Is that why you f*ck goats ?? voices….???
Islam sucks…come and get me “internet police.”
Congratulations to Ayanle Hassan Ali for carrying out his Islamic duty to Jihad. Ain’t freedom of religion great.
The muslum perp has schizophrenia, yeah right. I predict he’ll be cured and go right back to killing for allah, then maybe be hospitalized again, be cured, go out and kill again for allah — until he’s too old to do so or cashes in his 72 virgin reward points.
Maybe he will be in for a surprise as regards the ‘virgins’. Could be that it will be only 1 virgin aged 72 years!
Just-In Sharia…
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Demonic possession, and so are such cases as this among the followers of the man chosen by the devil, disguised as angel Gabriel: Mohammed.
Alas Canada.
Trudeau’s Canada.
It’s not Allah, it’s UCKING SOMALI!!! They have near retardation levels.
Just take a look at its face and eyes……….nobody is home. How much has it cost the taxpayer so far, every dollar is a dollar too much. The gutless West is on a suicide march.
Just look at the size of his head…SEALS called them “skinnies.”
Near?
In Canada whenever a Islamic person attacks anyone Canadian police forces never say it was related to Islam or that the perpetrator was Muslim – the police forces always say it was mental illness”. The police say this because to say otherwise will result in a cut in federal funding to the Canadian police agency.
Canada and Europe are following the exact same agenda – it’s the Frankfurt School. Look at number 8 -THE 11-STEP PLAN OF CULTURAL SUBVERSION
The Frankfurt School has 11 objectives to destroy society [#2].
The creation of racism offences.
Continual change to create confusion
The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
Huge immigration to destroy identity.
The promotion of excessive drinking
Emptying of churches
An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
Dependency on the state or state benefits
Control and dumbing down of media
Encouraging the breakdown of the family
As Arnie used to say, ” HE’LL BE BACK!!!!! ” and next time how many will die????
Sorry but judges like this need to suffer the same fate as the real victims! Then watch how fast they change.
To Canadians, terrorist just means a little more to the left than Bernie Sanders. They will not learn until the knife of Islam is at their throats.
Two sets of laws for criminals now. If you are muslim, it is your culture, and you cannot be blamed and must be found innocent. If you are non-muslim, you are found guilty and sent to prison. This is in several countries now, UK and Canada for two. I believe they do the same in Sweden.
Muslims always seem to receive “special” treatment.
Wait until they hear what dirty Al told me to do to Slimmers.
O’ Canada, the gender-neutral land, has capitulated to Islam and Sharia Law. It is the non-Muslim citizens who are the enemy of Canada’s parliamentary democracy. Thanks to Justin True-DOH, and his Liberal party this once proud nation is now the mirror-image of the EU, Britain and other countries underfoot, subjugated to Islam. Canadians, methinks, have the opportunity to toss duplicitous Trudeau and his party into the recycling bin, sooner than later. One can only hope that those who voted for this imbecilic but perfidious petulant boy will see him for what he indeed is, a collaborator with Islam and other enemies of democracy.
Where’s the outrage?
If anything “told” him to do it, it is the demons corrupting his own heart and soul…