ISIS Crisis in Ottawa Shooting? UPDATE: Gunman Is Canadian Muslim Convert

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Because I was offline working on another project today, I haven’t followed the developments in Ottawa, where a terrorist gunman and a soldier have reportedly been killed in an incident at the Canadian Parliament building. In a breaking news situation like this, I hesitate to speculate, but others are not hesitant, and there is a lot of chatter that this shooting in Canada is related to the Iraqi-Syrian Islamic terror group known as ISIS. We will wait and see.

Feel free to link in the comments to any new developments, and I may update later, when there are more certain facts to report.

UPDATE: Reuters is now reporting that the Ottawa shooter is a Canadian-born man named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau who converted to Islam.

Allahpundit has more details at Hot Air.

UPDATE II: Definitely looks like terrorism:

Zehaf-Bibeau . . . was recently designated a “high-risk traveller” by the Canadian government and that his passport had been seized – the same circumstances surrounding the case of Martin Rouleau-Couture, the Quebecker who was shot Monday after running down two Canadian Forces soldiers with his car.

Rouleau-Couture was also a convert to Islam. How much actual organization is behind these attacks, we don’t know. The so-called “leaderless cell” model can be difficult to detect. You see a dot here and a dot there, and it looks like a pattern, but you can’t always tell whether the evident pattern is actually a conspiracy.

UPDATE III: Various items from Twitter:

EXPECT FURTHER UPDATES . . .

 

51 comments

  2. Stay on this story. Your nose for news should sense that.

    There was a hit-and-run yesterday, that killed one Canadian soldier and grievously injured a second.

    There appear to have been multiple incidents in a short period, including the soldier killed at the Cenotaph, the firing inside the Parliament building, and the purported attack at the Rideau buildings and the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel.

  3. What’s certain is that leftists will hope that it’s not Muslims and, if it is, their #1 concern will be Muslim backlash rather than the innocents who lost their lives.

  6. And Concern #2 is “How quickly can we make this story go away? …Oh, look! A celebrity with a baby bump!”

  7. Regarding update II Rouleau-Couture “Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman David Falls said Monday that the suspect “was known to federal authorities” and “authorities were concerned that he had become radicalized.” From Ace.

  8. More Islamic jihad, more liberal apologies and accusations of white privilege. Personally, would love to see some mosques start burning.

  9. So as reported by Catherine Herridge the shooter was not known to be a member of any recognized terrorist group. So he’s a member of that unrecognized terrorist group Islam.

  12. These episodes of workplace violence are getting out of hand. If only we could identify a consistent link between them all we might be able to address the root of the problem. Alas.

  18. The NYT reports ”But much about the shooter’s background and possible motivations remained unclear.” Apparently it is certain the suspect is an ‘’Unidentified organism with bipedal locomotion.”

  19. I’m scratching my head. it’s probably because of the intolerant way that peaceful Muslims are treated in the West, that they were driven to it.

  22. I simply don’t think we have enough information to assume that at this point, AW. The important thing now is to remain calm while we figure out a way, no matter how tenuous or implausible, to blame it all on Bush. Or the white, heterosexual patriarchy. Or both.

  24. Good point. There’s no reason to think that. I strenuously denounce myself. Now that I think about it, it was probably Christians. A conspiracy of evangelicals and elderly nuns, the most dangerous people in the world.

  27. it will take many more massacres of innocent Westerners before our Party rulers accept that the death cult masquerading as a religion, Pisslam, is at war with us. the solution? obvious. expel all Muslims back to their home countries, exile all converts, cease admitting these scum to civilized countries.

  29. What’s it say about Quebeckers (is that a word) that these a-holes want to become members of the homicidal cult of the moon god?

  30. Weedlord BonerHitler is a political independent who skews to the liberal side, but he has no tolerance for Islam. Islam is like Christianity, only worse. All religion is madness. The area to the west of us is being taken over by Somalians and we do not like it one bit.

  31. They don’t need to accept it. They already know it. The point is to distract middle class westerners so they don’t notice that they are being robbed blind by the corrupt, amoral political class and the crapitalists, in order to turn the entire world into a dictatorship. The goal is to implement a servant serf class, and an elite class, and that’s it. The dictatorship ultimately will destroy the Islamics as soon as they outlive their usefulness.

    To quote Chip in Animal House: Thank you, sir! May I have another?

  36. Fox News is reporting that the Canadian prime minister is saying this is now the second terrorist attack there in three days.

  37. So many sites have gone back to autoplay (used to be audio only) that I located a hack to make it so you have to click to play any flash content.

    It really adds another click to see embedded vids, since you see the embed image, click that, then you get the click to play flash video box.

    I forget how it worked, but it’s something you do with the browser. Just search for [ stop autoplay video browser ] and it’ll probably show up.

  46. I expect all the slap-back, but which Bush? I think they’ll blame Jeb for his open borders policy – in Canada of all places.

  47. And rightly so. A rough man, who’s well trained in the use of force, and who exercises that will, honour and training when required. What more might you want?

  48. Yes, you did. And even if you didn’t, it would have been implied. Yes, there is anti-Islam bias in my comment. I fear the zealotry of the recent convert, much more than the traditional adherent.

  49. This is something we must recognize. The socio-paths who lead a life of crime are attracted to Islam, because it provides a justification for their impulsive violent behavior.

    They used to say, “scratch an Englishman, find a pirate.” Now we say, “scratch a muslim, find a petty thug.”

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