It took one deadly act to raise Canada nine places in a global terrorism ranking of 163 countries in a report covering 2017 incidents.

A group of firemen leave the site of the Bataclan where a shooting and an hostage situation took place in Paris, France, 14 November 2015.

 

The Global Terrorism Index 2018, released on Wednesday, ranked Canada 57th, and much of it had to do with the six people who were killed in a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque in January 2017.

The report was produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think tank that works to “develop metrics to analyze peace and to quantify its economic value.”

The institute derived results based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which is collected by people at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and the University of Maryland.

Index scores were generated by looking at four factors in a given year: the number of terror incidents, the number of deaths caused by terrorists, the number of terror-caused injuries and the amount of property damage from terror incidents.

Those factors were then weighed with scores between zero and three and a five-year weighted average was applied to them to show the “latent psychological effect of terrorist acts over time.”

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Canada was pushed up 9 places in a global terror ranking after Quebec mosque shooting: report

A federal jury has convicted a man of all charges against him in the stabbing of a Bishop Airport police officer in 2017.

Amor Ftouhi was convicted on charges of committing an act of violence at an international airport, interference with airport security and committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries.

It took the jury about an hour to reach its verdict on Tuesday, Nov. 13 following a five-day trial.

“If Ftouhi’s only intention was to be killed by a cop, he could’ve found one in Canada,” said Assistant U.S. Prosecutor Cathleen Corken. “This isn’t a whodunit. This isn’t a mystery. He was caught right there. He has the knife in his hand.”

Defense Attorney Joan Morgan did not present a defense and rested her case on Tuesday.

She called Ftouhi unstable during her closing arguments.

Morgan said Ftouhi came to U.S. to commit suicide by cop because it would be easier in the U.S. than in Canada.

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https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2018/11/jury_terrorism_bishop_airport.html

The Supreme Court says that a Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s production order seeking those communications “was properly issued and should be upheld”.

Vice Media has refused to hand those notes over.

The critical case dealt with questions of how a democracy balances public safety with the protected freedom of the press.

On Friday, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court came down on the side of the RCMP, saying the force’s order strikes “a proportionate balance” between the rights of the press to gather information without undue interference from government and the needs of police to investigate serious crimes.

Ben Makuch, a national security journalist with Vice News, made contact with Canadian citizen Farah Shirdon in 2014.

He is believed to have left his home in the city of Calgary in March of that year to join the Islamic State group, one of many young westerners who traveled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46325573

Americans now have to really feel insecure and get prepared for one or many jihadist attacks where radical Islamic militants would be using the land of Canada, a country that has thousands of miles of border with the United States and most importantly – most part of this huge bordering area is undefended. This is the longest undefended border in the world. According to CBN report, “Canada is today the happy home of thousands of radical Islamists, ex-ISIS fighters and the Muslim Brotherhood. Their numbers continue to grow, with Islamists infiltrating the Canadian government on several levels.”

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https://www.weeklyblitz.net/news/while-canada-turns-into-new-jihadist-launchpad-prime-minister-trudeau-emerges-as-terror-patron/

Terror experts are sounding the alarm that Islamic terrorism invading the United States from Canada is now a clear and present danger, thanks to lax security – or no security at all – along most of the northern border.

“Canada is today the happy home of thousands of radical Islamists, ex-ISIS fighters and the Muslim Brotherhood,” CBN News reported. “Their numbers continue to grow, with Islamists infiltrating the Canadian government on several levels, [but] security experts [in Canada] warn that by welcoming radical Islamists, Canada now presents a danger to the United States.”

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https://www.onenewsnow.com/national-security/2018/11/18/jihad-entering-us-thru-canada-a-problem-say-experts

OTTAWA and TORONTO – The US and Canada share the longest undefended border in the world. There hasn’t been a reason to defend it because there hasn’t been a serious threat from either country in a couple hundred years. There is now.

Canada is today the happy home of thousands of radical Islamists, ex-ISIS fighters and the Muslim Brotherhood. Their numbers continue to grow, with Islamists infiltrating the Canadian government on several levels.

Many Americans assume that all is peaceful and well with their northern neighbor. But security experts here warn that by welcoming radical Islamists, Canada now presents a danger to the United States.

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http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2018/november/canada-becoming-a-potential-base-for-terrorists-to-attack-the-us-nbsp

While most of the discussions about securing our nation’s borders focus on threats from the south, a growing bevy of experts says the United States should be concerned about growing threats to the north.

Tom Quiggin, who worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Armed Forces and the United Nations Protection Force in Yugoslavia, believes Canada underestimates the threat to itself and the U.S. from extremists living within her borders. He said, “Canada is becoming a foundational sort of place for Islamists of all stripes including Iranians.”

Quiggin believes Canada’s leadership denies the severity of the issue and points to a debate in the Canadian parliament about how to handle Canadian citizens who joined ISIS and were returning to the country as evidence. He said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that “if you are opposed to ISIS fighters returning to Canada it is because you’re Islamophobic. In other words, it’s not them that’s the issue. It’s your opposing their return that makes you Islamophobic. It makes you racist.”

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https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/scott-slayton/terrorism-experts-worry-attacks-on-united-states-launched-from-canada.html

“Members of Parliament of the Government of Canada are using their official positions to channel taxpayers’ money to Islamic Relief Canada (IRC). The IRC is a federally registered charity, so the taxpayer is subsidizing this activity. IRC in turn is sending millions of dollars to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). Seven independent and reliable sources have gone on the public record and stated that IRW uses charitable funds to provide material support to terrorism. In most cases, this means Hamas, an organization which is listed as a terrorist entity by the Government of Canada.” — From of a letter sent to Brenda Lucki, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13137/canada-funding-terrorism

A Canadian who plotted terrorist attacks in New York City in 2016 was egged on by an undercover informant who told him “they are at war with us” and “they must pay,” according to a court document released Thursday.

After infiltrating the ISIS plot by posing as a co-conspirator, the undercover agent exchanged “inflammatory messages” with the Canadian, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, the defence submission argued.

He “continually stoked Mr. El Bahnasawy’s sense of belonging and encouraged Mr. El Bahnasawy to send him money for the attack and finding additional recruits,” the defence lawyers wrote.

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Undercover informant encouraged ‘vulnerable’ Canadian ISIS plotter, defence argues

A British Columbia man has been deemed inadmissible to Canada for being a security risk based on his Facebook posts that glorified terrorism in support of the Islamic State group, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada says.

Othman Hamdan is a Jordanian national who was acquitted of three terrorism-related charges by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in September 2017, but immigration authorities kept him in custody and determined at multiple detention reviews that he poses a danger to the public.

The board, which must establish whether an allegation is true rather than proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, says in a written decision released Friday that a deportation order has been issued for Hamdan.

Marc Tessler says in the ruling that Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale alleges much of the content in 85 Facebook posts amounted to counseling and supporting others to commit terrorist acts in Canada, the United States and other western countries.

“The minister asserts that Mr. Hamdan assumed for himself the role of a spokesman and cheerleader for the Islamic State but more specifically he glorified and encouraged lone wolf attacks,” the decision says of the man’s posts between September 2014 and July 2015.

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https://nationalpost.com/news/deportation-order-issued-for-b-c-man-who-glorified-terrorism-on-facebook