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Another Day of Terror
While the news media focused on the deadly attacks in Ottawa, our friends in Israel also suffered today. A car drove into a crowd at a Jerusalem light rail station, killing a baby girl and injuring eight others. Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun died at a nearby hospital and both of her parents were among the wounded; all three were American citizens.
Israeli officials identified the attacker as a Hamas member who had served time in Israeli prison. After police raided the suspect’s home, more violence hit his East Jerusalem neighborhood:
Major clashes took place Wednesday evening between Palestinians and Israeli police forces in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Silwan and Issawiya, following a suspected terrorist attack in which a three-month-old Israeli girl, Chaya Zissel Braun, was killed.
Sixteen rioters were arrested throughout the capital Wednesday, said Deputy Finance Minister and former Jerusalem police chief Mickey Levy on Channel 2.
Dozens of masked Palestinians set tires and dumpsters ablaze and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police officers in Silwan and Issawiya, police said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Canadian authorities have identified 24-year-old Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as the guard killed at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa. Shortly after he was shot, the suspect drove to Parliament Hill to wreak more terror. After witnesses heard a few dozen shots, the terrorist was killed.
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a native-born Canadian had a criminal record and, shock of shocks, was an Islamic convert. This bears significant similarities to a Canadian terror attack earlier this week:
On Monday, Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old who converted to Islam last year, rammed his car into two soldiers in the Quebec town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and was shot dead by police. One of the soldiers later died…
Quebec court records show three 2004 cases involving a Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, born in 1982. That year he pleaded guilty to two drug-related offenses and one charge of failing to comply with a judge’s order.
The Globe and Mail newspaper, citing sources, said he was recently designated a “high-risk traveler” by the Canadian government – meaning it was feared he would travel abroad to commit crimes – and that his passport had been seized.
Those were similar circumstances to Rouleau who was arrested at the airport in July on his way to Turkey and also had his passport confiscated.
Rouleau was among 90 people being tracked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on suspicion of taking part in militant activities abroad or planning to do so.
I realize that our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President wants to be remembered as the guy who “ended” our wars, but our opponents didn’t get the memo. The West is at war with radical Islam, whether it wants to be or not — and it’s a war likely to continue for much of our lifetimes.
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Tears flow for Israel, our wonderful northern neighbor, Canada, and for what is left of our Republic.
“The West is at war with radical Islam”
Jon, I’m not sure how much this should be repeated but ad nauseam seems a good place to start.
BTW- I’m beginning to wonder whether the adjective ‘radical’ is even necessary anymore, its beginning to seem the norm of Islam in general, since I don’t hear any defense from ‘Islam’ of Western civilization or its rights, or its peoples.
Sad day in Israel, sad day in Canada, sad day for us all.
very sad.
I suspect Australia will follow along soon. An article on Muslim rape gangs in Sydney was my introduction to Mark Steyn in 2002, and Australia has been criticized for helping the US in the Middle East.
I wonder if we will start seeing lots of these “lone wolf” attacks (which have been called for worldwide) in places with a high density of devout Muslims such as London, Amsterdam, Paris and Malmö.
It will be interesting to find out how the Left turns the murders into an opportunity to attack the West and, in the process, explain how the depredations of western civilization forces Muslims to kill a 3-month-old baby.
As is very often the case when reading Ricochet comments, I’ve found my own thoughts to be echoing others. Richard’s point on leftist spin was the first place my mind went as I imagined this murderous behavior incredulously being ascribed not to evil, but depravation or hopelessness.
Islam is calling for a world wide uprising, and anyone who believes otherwise is foolish. I would suggest that C.C. would be a valuable asset.
Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western civilization.
My heart goes out to the injured and families of the fallen. The Canadian Forces are wonderful friends and allies. The attacks on them at home and on baby Chaya and her family in Jerusalem are beyond appalling. Huntington’s clash of civilizations continues.
Ricochet 2.0 continues to kick my @55; nevertheless, wanted to ditto Abu Daniel’s “Huntington’s clash of civilizations continues.”
P.S. For any of you that are beginning to believe what I was putting down a couple or three years ago concerning the religion of peace, may want to see my brilliant series on Winning the Peace. It seems more apropos with each passing day. Just sayin’
Thank you for having the guts to state that the two murders are part of the same phenomenon.
This is my regular bus and train stop. The irony is that the Jerusalem municipality deliberately had the bus and light rail lines run through both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods to assure access to all her citizens.
Just wait until the vast majority of moderate Muslims hear about these atrocities. Those extremist types will be in big trouble. Sure.
I think it’s time to examine the possibility that Islam is simply not compatible with secular democratic society. For example, consider this proposition:
It is not now nor has it ever been justified to impose a religious beliefs and practices by force or threat of force.
The First Amendment is premised in part on that statement. While I don’t like the idea of loyalty oaths of the equivalent but I do think at a minimum we are entitled to candor about those in our midst who believe the freedoms we share should be extinguished. Exactly what should Muslims privileged to live in the West do with respect to the many express directives in their core religious documents to attack and destroy non-Muslims persons and institutions?
I am not content to sit back and wait for the Islamic community to randomly spew death from its extremist fringes and then listen to their demand we acknowledge their overall “moderation” so as not to be “islamaphobic.”
If the pursuit of this clarity makes Muslims uncomfortable, tough. Too many American lives have been lost dealing with the global sociopathology of Islamic cultural and political failure.
Sept. 26, 2014: ISIS Lieutenant Tries to Coordinate Attacks in Australia
Mohammad Ali Baryalei, a former Sydney nightclub bouncer who is now an Islamic State lieutenant, made a phone call from Syria to a 22-year-old Sydney man and asked him to carry out a beheading in Australia on camera, the police said.
It is one of the few known attempts by the Islamic State to carry out a terrorist act outside the Middle East.
Days after the Sydney man was arrested, an 18-year-old man stabbed two counterterrorism officers outside Melbourne before one of the officers shot and killed him. The police described the man as a “known terror suspect” who had been seen carrying an Islamic State flag at a local shopping center.
Just a guess, but it seems Canada may have been a bit more aggressive in pulling the passports of such nuts than Australia was. Otherwise, perhaps these two would be off chopping heads in Syria.
Thanks for posting, Jon. With all the news out of Ottawa, I hadn’t heard about this attack in Jerusalem at all.