Quebec Mosque mass shooting

[RBP]

(CNN)Quebec City Police have confirmed via Twitter a shooting at a mosque.

The shooting left people dead and wounded, the department said. Police would not confirm the number of dead.

Two people have been arrested and the investigation continues, the department said.

It added in a later tweet that the situation was "under control."

"The site is secure and the occupants (of the mosque) were evacuated. The investigation continues."

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Trump is getting blamed in the comments on Trudeau's condolence tweet.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight, Canadians grieve for those killed in a cowardly attack on a mosque in Quebec City. My thoughts are with victims &amp; their families.</p>&mdash; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/825910196077723648">January 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Teh One Who Knocks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FOX News and The Associated Press


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Two gunmen stormed an Islamic center in Quebec City and opened fire, killing at least six people and wounding eight others Sunday, police said

Two suspects in the shooting were arrested, Quebec City police spokesman Constable Pierre Poirier said. Their identities haven’t been released.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the shooting, calling it a “terrorist attack on Muslims.”

“It was with tremendous shock, sadness and anger that I heard of this evening’s tragic and fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Quebec located in the Ste-Foy neighborhood of the city of Quebec,” he said in a statement.

“Muslim-Canadians are an important part of our national fabric, and these senseless acts have no place in our communities, cities and country.”

Le Journal de Quebec reported that the gunfire started at the Islamic center at around 8 p.m. There were approximately 40 people attending prayer service at the time of the shooting. The center's president Mohamed Yangui said the shooters reloaded at least three times.

According to the Le Soleil newspaper, one of the arrested suspects was 27 years old and had a “Quebecois name.” The paper also reported that one of the suspects was armed with an AK-47.

One witness, who wanted to remain anonymous, told Radio Canada, a Canadian Broadcasting Company French-speaking outlet, that the two gunmen were masked.

“It seemed to me that they had a Quebecois accent. They started to fire, and as they shot they yelled, 'Allahu akbar!' The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head,” the person said.

An unidentified man looking for his friends, who were regular attendees of evening prayers, told Le Journal de Quebec, "I've tried to reach them, but I cannot. It's terrible."

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard called the shooting a "terrorist act." later Sunday. He expressed solidarity with the victims' families.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on Twitter Sunday that he was deeply saddened by the loss of life. His office says no motive had been confirmed.

The CBC reported that someone left a pig's head on the mosque's doorstep this past June, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Islam's holy book, the Koran, forbids them from consuming pork.

"We were told that it was an isolated act, but today we have deaths," Yangui told reporters. "It is minutes and hours of terror and anguish."

In the U.S., the NYPD said in a statement that officers have been told to give “special attention” to mosques in the area. Police said they were monitoring the situation in Quebec.

[Muddy]

It's funny how much "Muslim-Canadians are an important part of our national fabric" when they have such abhorrent policies with regards to female treatment as 2nd class citizens.

[deebakes]

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[Godfather]

Sad stuff. Such an odd place for this to occur too. Quebec City had 2 homicides in 2015...

Still no firm info on a motive, but it's looking like white supremacists possibly.

[Hugh_Janus]

they're only muslims... the only good muslim is a dead muslim amirite?

[RBP]

Sad stuff. Such an odd place for this to occur too. Quebec City had 2 homicides in 2015...

Still no firm info on a motive, but it's looking like white supremacists possibly.

The white supremacists story is from a parody twitter account.

And I don't know it's odd, that same building was a target before I believe.

[Godfather]

Think I missed the fake twitter troll thing circulating last night, partly why I didn't comment until today. CBC said no firm news, Quebec police hold releasing names for 12 hours and CBC is trustworthy so I turned it off and went to bed. :lol: Too many assholes sitting at their computer, cracking their knuckles and trying to make this about affirming their own political narrative.


Anyways here's info on the attacker police have identified for real. It sounds like a loonie white supremacist based on his social media presence. Always could be mental illness too though eh. Remains to be seen.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3958559

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-city-mosque-attack-suspect-known-for-right-wing-online-posts/article33833044/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile

[RBP]

Think I missed the fake twitter troll thing circulating last night, partly why I didn't comment until today. CBC said no firm news, Quebec police hold releasing names for 12 hours and CBC is trustworthy so I turned it off and went to bed. :lol: Too many assholes sitting at their computer, cracking their knuckles and trying to make this about affirming their own political narrative.

Anyways here's info on the attacker police have identified for real. It sounds like a loonie white supremacist based on his social media presence. Always could be mental illness too though eh. Remains to be seen.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3958559

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-city-mosque-attack-suspect-known-for-right-wing-online-posts/article33833044/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile

Trump has blood on his hands posts in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

[Godfather]

Oh you know someone was floating that out there within seconds :lol: just like people were immediately floating out there "Trump was right to ban them" when people speculated maybe it was a Muslim-on-Muslim shooting (saw a bit of that on Reddit).

Funny how vastly different the narrative is based on who 'dun it. Nobody can just take a moment of silence for something shitty and unjustifiable (I'm guilty of this).

[RBP]

Yep. Indeed. :rip: