Quebec City Mosque Shooters Yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’, 5 Dead

Here again, another mosque shooting by Muslims.

TIME Magazine: At least five people were killed Sunday night when multiple gunmen reportedly opened fire during evening prayers at an Islamic center in Quebec City, Canada, the mosque president said.

Reuters reports that five people were killed by as many as three gunmen. Two of the three suspects have been arrested, according to the Associated Press.

Islamophobic incidents have reportedly increased in Canada in recent years.

The media always blames islamophobia and the perps are always Muslims

CNN: “Critical Response Command (CRC) personnel have been assigned to extended tour coverage at certain mosque locations,” the statement reads. The city is one of the focal points of protests against President Trump’s travel ban, which seeks to exclude any …

Quebec City Mosque Shooter Yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’

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Canadian media are reporting that one of the shooters at a Quebec City mosque shouted “Allahu Akbar” while killing as many as five people.

La Presse is reporting that police are considering the mass shooting a terrorist attack.

The report seems, on the face of it, confusing, since the target was a mosque. The mosque has also been the subject of hate crimes in the past; for example, a pig’s head was left at the mosque in June. The motive has not yet been released by authorities, and the identities of the suspects are not yet publicly known, although two people are under arrest, Reuters is reporting. Some media reports said there was possibly a third suspect.

According to CBC, an anonymous witness told Radio-Canada, a French language service, that two masked suspects entered the mosque. The witness told the radio station, according to CBC:

It seemed to me that they had a Quebecois accent. They started to fire, and as they shot they yelled, ‘Allahu akbar!’ The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head.

The witness said children were present. Forty people were praying at the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre when the shooting unfolded, according to The New York Times.The Huffington Post also reported the Allahu Akbar account, although news reports on it appear to all originate from the Radio Canada witness.

Another witness said in Arabic at the scene, “This is the result of Trump,” reported the Huffington Post. The mass shooting came as, across the border in the United States, protests broke out at major airports over the American president’s immigration ban, which affects seven Muslim majority countries. Donald Trump has said he instituted the temporary ban to prevent terrorist attacks from radical Islamic terrorists, such as ISIS. Opponents have accused the U.S. president of discriminating against Muslims.

However, it’s too early to say what the underpinnings of motive were in the Quebec situation, which was unfolding quickly on January 29.

Canadian police officers respond to a shooting in a mosque at the Québec City Islamic cultural center on Sainte-Foy Street in Quebec city on January 29, 2017. (Getty)

Reuters quoted the Mosque president as saying that five people had died in the shooting and others were injured.

The Huffington Post reported that Islamophobia has risen in Quebec, “the face-covering, or niqab, became a big issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election, especially in Quebec, where the vast majority of the population supported a ban on it at citizenship ceremonies.” The newspaper reported that the suspects had a Quebecois accent.

This story will be updated when more is known about the motive for the attack.