Perspective: After the Edmonton attack, don’t forget the good work many Muslims Canadians are doing

Perspective: After the Edmonton attack, don’t forget the good work many Muslims Canadians are doing | Jari Qudrat

The leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, his Holiness, the Caliph of Islam, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has in fact, endorsed and called for heightened security measures from war-stricken nations to uphold the safety of the public.

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By Jari Qudrat | October 13, 2017

Abdulahi Hasan Sharif: he had a Muslim name, he carried an ISIS flag, but rest assured, nothing he did was Islamic.

On September 30, Sharif was part of a terrorism investigation in Edmonton. The 30-year old extremist stabbed a police officer on crowd control duty outside the Commonwealth Stadium during a game attended by over 30,000 people.

A few hours later he made a second appearance, this time recklessly driving a U-Haul truck in a wild chase down through the streets of Edmonton, hitting four pedestrians and injuring many more.

This is a gruesome act of terrorism and must be condemned with the strongest of words.

Sharif was a Somalian national with refugee status in Canada. Like most cases of extremism and radicalization, Sharif was known to have an unstable past.
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