Q & A

"I have a question. What does it feel like to kill somebody? Do you know?"
"Not good."
"Because I've got to admit that the thought of what we're doing makes me feel sick. I'm not saying I'm scared. I'm repulsed."
"This is a war. I just want to know if you have the same feeling in your stomach."
"Yeah." 
"It has to be done because no one else will. All these people they're calling themselves Muslims, they're watching each other drop like flies and being killed, one after the other, in the millions. They're watching them drop dead, they don't care."
"Please, don't let there be any Muslims there."
"Let there be very few women and children, inshallah (if Allah wills it), and no Muslims."
"[After the attack] everybody is going to be screaming for blood. They're going to want the people who did this. There's going to be mobs of Nazi skinheads roaming the streets."
John Nuttall, Muslim convert in conversation with an RCMP undercover officer

 John Nuttall is shown in a still image taken from RCMP undercover video.

Sometimes, when people look about them and recognize the pallid response of others to situations requiring immediate and constructively responsive solutions, they must obey their instincts and take up the cudgel to rectify an identified wrong. In the case of John Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody, their hearts going out to Muslims being slaughtered by non-Muslims, the recent converts determined that theirs would be the hands to strike a deadly blow against the enemies of Islam.

Mind, they may have been somewhat confused in just exactly who is for the most part responsible for the plight of Muslims throughout the world, since it is mostly Muslims themselves, those dedicated to the major precepts of Islam, and taking their inspiration from the words and actions of the Prophet Mohammad himself who engaged in violent conflict and slaughter of those refusing to convert, who pose the hazard to life and limb of Muslims.

Whether the ranks of ordinary Muslims simply seeking a way to fulfill their obligations to Islam without committing themselves to violent jihad are being thinned out by blood-letting inflicted upon them by the jihadists in Libya, Somalia, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, or by Sharia government decree through capital punishment resulting from their criticism of that government, it is Muslims largely who pose an existential threat to other Muslims.

The problem of blaming Islam and fanatical Muslims for the sad and sorry plight of the innocent majority is a vexing one clearly for converts like the two from British Columbia who obviously would far rather see victim and tormentor in the distinguishing light of villain and victor; East and West.  Empathizing with the oppressed and hating the oppressor brings balm to the souls of psychopaths who wreak a path of destruction throughout world order.

RCMP / The Canadian Press  John Nuttall and Amanda Korody in an undercover RCMP video.

"The whole world is going to hear about this, right. We are now al-Qaida. Not in the Arabian Peninsula. We’re al-Qaida Canada, OK? Al-Qaida Canada. Who is going to disagree with us? They won’t disagree with us. At the very least we are mujahedeen."

 Inspired by the brilliantly courageous work of the Boston bombers, the pair dedicated to their own version of Islamist jihad, bought four pressure cookers, timers and other material they would dedicate their time to and pin their hopes on, in the manufacture of bombs set to go off at the British Columbia legislature in July of 2013. Only to have their audacious plan interrupted when the undercover officer signalled there was sufficient evidence to charge them.

And then the country learned that Canada Day celebrations that year would be absent the death of celebrants in Victoria, B.C., after all. Why four bombs when one might do the trick, and Mr. Nuttall felt queasy at the thought of many people dying in their righteous jihad? Well, just to tip the chances for success their way; in case some malfunctioned among the four, one at the very least would  be certain to explode, and fulfill their obligation to Islamist jihad.