Several dead in Quebec City mosque shooting

[terry78]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/...d-dead-in-shooting-at-quebec-city-mosque.html


Crazy, man.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Completely sick and disgusting. This spread of hate does not stop at the borders. Such tragedy cannot be put into words. All I can say is my thoughts are with all those effected.

 

[Gee]

Yup and in Canada no less. No country is immune from xenophobic hatred.

That mosque was a target of Islamophobia (pig's head left at entrance) last summer.

 

[Kane52630]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/quebec-mosque-attack-170130031548892.html

At least six people were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City during evening prayers, police said.

Gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on Sunday at 8pm local time (01:00 GMT).

"Six people are confirmed dead - they range in age from 35 to about 70," Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe told reporters, adding eight people were wounded and 39 were unharmed.

Police said two suspects had been arrested, but gave no details about them or what prompted the attack.

The mosque's president, Mohamed Yangui, was not inside the mosque at the time of the shooting. He received frantic calls from worshippers.

He said: "Why is this happening here? This is barbaric."

Speaking to Al Jazeera by phone, he said: "One of the administrators called me and said there was a shooting at the mosque. I am still in shock. I ran to the mosque ... I was told that one attacker was arrested at the scene while another one was arrested nearby."

 

[dude stannis]

RIP.

I ****ing expected better from Canada. And anyone glad this happened because Obamer was comin' for their gunz is piece of ****.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I did not expect to see the day when I hear about shooting in Canada.
A moment of silence.

 

[Mad Ones]

Trump and his rhetoric/policies has played one part in creating the environment for this attack, but this shooting is consistent with Canada's own history from the "Canadian Values Act" to Stephen Harper to banning the niqab if you're a public servant. Quebec has been one of the most insular and protectionist provinces for years now. This stuff predates Trump.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

We are living in a fu***d up world of hate, moral failure and where human lives are meaningless.
Pure nihilism.

 

[James]

Yup and in Canada no less. No country is immune from xenophobic hatred.

I ****ing expected better from Canada.

I did not expect to see the day when I hear about shooting in Canada.

Anywhere there is hatred fueled by fear and wilful ignorance, there will be violence.

 

[BillPardy]

Quebec City is a very peaceful place, last year they had only a single murder. So this especially unheard of.

I did not expect to see the day when I hear about shooting in Canada.
A moment of silence.

Didn't hear about the shooting at Parliament Hill in 2014? Stephen Colbert tells the story well. Respectfully and with great humour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GofES3-TzJw

 

[Muze]

are we sure that the shooter is Canadian? could be an American traveler.

 

[terry78]

are we sure that the shooter is Canadian? could be an American traveler.

We don't go up there just to shoot up places. We go to spend American currency.

 

[terry78]

Just said he was a 27 year old university student from a nearby college.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

are we sure that the shooter is Canadian? could be an American traveler.

 

[Teelie]

Even Canada tries to blame its terrorists on those darned foreigners.

 

[Pink Ranger]

It's okay, don't worry about this guy, he's a "pure wool" French-Canadian, so he'll get a French-Canadian judge and a French-Canadian jury, and he'll get a $100 fine, which I am sure will be covered by the crowdsourcing campaign for him.

 

[Pennywise]

Just found out about this!!! This is disturbing! :csad

 

[Muze]

any weirder than him being a Trump supporter?

 

[3rdstone]

Regarding "this would never happen in Canada":

In 2011 a right wing extremist terrorist killed 77 people in Norway. Most of them were young people (like teens) on a political camp at an island called Utöya. He ruthlessly shot them down one by one...

No one would never ever expect that to happen to a "peaceful" country like Norway. Yet all of a sudden that unexpected devastating tragedy happened.

Sadly, it seems like few countries can reckon to be completely safe of disasters like this anymore.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[James]

Regarding "this would never happen in Canada":

In 2011 a right wing extremist terrorist killed 77 people in Norway. Most of them were young people (like teens) on a political camp at an island called Utöya. He ruthlessly shot them down one by one...

No one would never ever expect that to happen to a "peaceful" country like Norway. Yet all of a sudden that unexpected devastating tragedy happened.

Sadly, it seems like few countries can reckon to be completely safe of disasters like this anymore.

The Quebec City mosque massacre is also far from Canada's first mass shooting. They don't happen anywhere near as frequently as in the U.S of course, and don't tend to get a lot of media coverage. But these things do happen here and, tragically, can happen anywhere.