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Is He Muslim? Was He Mad? Was He ISIL Besotted? Perish The Thought!

Video posted on social media showed Hussain clad in black, firing at least three shots into a cafe or restaurant. (@ArielAnise/Twitter)

"Is he Muslim? Yes. Does he probably know Muslim extremists? Yeah. Is he mentally ill? Yeah, probably."
"Does he have access to guns from the guys in his neighbourhood? Yeah. But be real careful what road you go down."
"We may never know what was going on in his mind."
Toronto Police Services source

"Friends of mine, who I respect, say I don't have enough sympathy for disturbed people who wreak havoc. And I'm sure they're right. But it's hard for me not to have those feelings."
"For every one of me there are 500 people who say, 'oh, it's the total explanation'. Maybe they're right. I don't know."
"But I tried to argue mental illness was not a very satisfactory explanation for this kind of thing and all it does is stigmatize the mentally ill."
Memorial University anthropologist, researcher, Elliott Leyton

Dr. Leyton, who wrote the book Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer, added his voice to the perplexing and inexplicable hatred that drives Islamists to erupt from time to time into warriors of Islamofascist jihad. It's doubtful he would use that nomenclature; as an academic he cannot afford to. He must retain some semblance of neutrality, not to condemn a sacred book, the Koran, and its instructions to the faithful to remember their duty to jihad, and to kill the infidels and the Jews.

But he gives little credit to the controversy steered toward discussions of gun control and mental illness by authorities careful not to stir the pot of Muslim clerics' Friday night sermons and the exhortations to remain faithful to Koranic precepts in honour of the exemplar of holy war, the Prophet Mohammad. Sunday night saw carnage on Toronto's Greektown when Danforth Avenue was turned into a killing spree leaving a ten-year-old girl and an 18-year old woman dead, with thirteen others wounded to varying degrees when Faisal Hussain stalked the streets coolly and with malice aforethought shooting the unaware and the helpless.

His firearms proficiency and studied demeanor indicate a well-planned execution. A 29-year-old loner, polite, restrained whom neighbours described as quiet, shy, reserved, having a "million-dollar smile", and whom his family described as someone who was forced to cope with a life of "struggle and pain" who decided to turn his contempt for others into a massacre, disrupting a quiet, warm evening crowded with passersby, cafe habitues, families out for an evening stroll.

In the process reminding 'pluralist' Toronto whose residents are 42% immigrant stock, that the city is not immune to the shocks that have roiled Europe.

It is undiplomatic, impolite, extremely rude-to-hostile, to make much of his heritage, a tribal, sectarian-infused, violence-inspired religion supported by cultural animus of non-believers and a sturdy anti-Semitism as having any import whatever on the atrocity he set out to burden Toronto with. Those hastening to remind shocked Canadians that they mustn't draw conclusions have no intention of sharing with them that intelligence forces have identified him on a list of suspected ISIS supporters, that he has flirted with that sinister claque of aspiring jihadists, and police surveillance was focused on his past unlawful activities.

We homespun Canadians who don't believe that evil exists, much less that a religious devotion to a Bedouin-inspired theocracy that lifted its infrastructure from Judaism which it holds now as a despicable conspiracy to control and corrupt the world while Islam is concerned with pacifying the world and bringing it to a state of universal peace under a guiding caliphate once those resistant to acknowledging the supremacy of Allah are summarily dealt with cannot conceive of such deep-seated anti-human conspiracy.

There are those among us who have given due warning over the years, their shout-outs of threats that hover over us, shunted aside, whose voices have grown more insistent, louder, as the threats intensified now sigh with frustration that the infiltration of Islamists in secular Canada, as elsewhere throughout the world is now fairly complete, having the sympathetic ear of government agencies recognizing them as the voice of that growing community. Ensaf Haidar and Tarek Fatah look on in disbelief and horror at the smooth manipulation Muslim Brotherhood representatives employ, succeeding in their mission to disarm and misinform.

For we mustn't submit to the unwarranted attitude that Muslims become an uncivil scourge among us though their criminal actions linked to crime, assault, drug gangs, murders of a sectarian nature, finding them overrepresented in numbers, betraying their cultural origins and susceptibility to violent action. And nor must we succumb to the fallacious belief that the Hussain parents who are "really good human beings" could possibly have a son who became an Islamist terrorist seeking to slaughter innocent Torontonians.

A teacher and a former classmate of the man who shot 15 people on a busy Toronto street on Sunday say he made disturbing comments that once prompted a call to police.
Faisal Hussain’s teacher at Victoria Park Collegiate says the school called the police nine years ago after a conversation he had with Hussain in class.
“I asked him, ‘What do you want to do? Like what do you want to do with your life?’” the teacher told CTV Toronto. “And (Hussain) said 'I want to kill someone.'”
The teacher, who wishes to remain anonymous, says he was stunned by Hussain’s comment, and asked him, “'Why, what did they do to you?'”
He says Hussain responded, “No, I just want to kill somebody ... I think it would be cool.”
Police took Hussain into custody and he was investigated under the Mental Health Act, according to the teacher.
CTV News