MM Online - Canadian PM: Mosque shooting a terrorist attack on Muslims:
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QUEBEC, Jan 30 — The shooting at a Quebec mosque during last night prayers which reportedly killed five people was a “terrorist attack on Muslims”, said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge,” Trudeau said in a statement.
Five people were killed after gunmen opened fire in a Quebec City mosque, the mosque’s president told reporters today.
A witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. — Reuters
“We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge,” Trudeau said in a statement.
Five people were killed after gunmen opened fire in a Quebec City mosque, the mosque’s president told reporters today.
A witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. — Reuters
While we've often heard of Islamist terrorists attacking non-Muslims particularly Westerners, the above news about a massacre of Muslims (by presumably Westerners) is not the first terrorist attacks against Muslims. There were plenty in Israel. I recall one, that by Baruch Goldstein on February 25, 1994.
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Baruch Goldstein |
I'll let Wikipedia tell you what happened:
The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre or Hebron massacre, was a shooting massacre carried out by American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, also a member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement.
On February 25, 1994, Goldstein opened fire on a large number of Palestinian Muslims who had gathered to pray inside the Ibrahimi Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs compound in Hebron, West Bank.
It took place on February 25, 1994, during the overlapping religious holidays of both JewishPurim and MuslimRamadan.
The attack left 29 people dead, several as young as twelve, and 125 wounded.
Goldstein was overpowered, disarmed and then beaten to death by survivors.
While nearly 80% of Israelis, the Israeli government and most rabbis condemned that massacre and also Baruch Goldstein, a few rabbis praised Goldstein's horrendous act, calling his undertaking 'an act of martyrdom'. What arseholes some Israelis could be.
Wikipedia said: In eulogizing Goldstein, Rabbi Israel Ariel called him a "holy martyr", and questioned the innocence of the victims by claiming they were responsible for the massacre of Hebron's Jews in 1929.
Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba said he was a saint whose "hands are innocent, his heart pure", and compared him to the martyrs of the Holocaust.
At the time, settler rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburgh was the only prominent Orthodox rabbi who praised the massacre. He has since been detained several times for espousing extremist views.
At Goldstein's funeral, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin perpetuated the hatred between Israelis and Palestinians by saying in a so-called eulogy to the killer-terrorist: "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail".
When Goldstein's grave became a holy site for visits by extremist Israelis, the Israeli government destroyed the site.
I fear the inevitable horror of an Islamic reciprocation for the Quebec mosque massacre.
In such an eye for an eye retribution, Mahatma Gandhi warned us the whole world would soon turn blind.
There are quite a many Israelis like Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan (picture below). He is still a member of the Knesset (Parliament) and is also the Deputy Minister of Defense. Frightening, isn't it?
