From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv
The man who was attacking a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario on Yom
Kippur this year may not have been a Muslim.
He's been identified as Sean Ward. I would have bet that at least one of
his names was going to be Mohammed. Of course that doesn't preclude a
recent convert to the Religion of Pieces: we had a guy in Strathroy,
Ontario intercepted by police as he was leaving his house with bombs who didn't have "Mohammed" as any of his names either but he was a recent
convert to Islam and had announced plans to blow things up in Toronto.
(His threats were detected by the FBI who notified our law enforcement,
who shot him dead on his own driveway when he wouldn't surrender.)
It turns out the shooter is a former soldier in the Canadian Armed
Forces and lived locally. Police are searching his home, presumably for
clues into his motivations. I suppose authorities will be desperate to
find Nazi paraphernalia so they can reassure people that Islam had
nothing to do with it.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7353133 [4 minutes]
It was sickening of the CBC to raise the possibility that maybe the
synagogue was not the shooters real target. I think they're preparing
for a narrative that says it was all just a coincidence, that his target
was something else near the synagogue but that we're just jumping to conclusions about his motive.
Both the suspect and the injured officer remain alive with the officer
with his condition upgraded to stable and the shooter still in life-threatening condition.
The SIU has deemed it a terrorist attack on the basis of common sense
but is going to leave it to local police to determine the motive for the shooting. (The SIU is the Special Investigations Unit which gets
involved whenever there is an officer-involved shooting but whose
mandate does not include solving the crime.) Belleville's not a terribly
large city so I'd be surprised if they even had a Homicide unit; they
probably have something like a Major Crimes unit. (I believe that's how
my Region, which is considerably larger, handles such things.) I expect
other expertise will be available from other departments if needed.
Security near other synagogues in Ottawa, Toronto and other places is
being stepped up in the wake of the events in Belleville. I wonder if
they'll be stepped up near the mosques, churches and Hindu temples too,
just to show equal treatment to all the faiths....
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspect-involved-in-shooting-outside-belleville-ont-synagogue-identified/
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