The Forgotten Massacre: How Canada Buried the Danforth Shooting

By Geoffrey Clarfield

Canadian Authorities Ignored Islamic Terror in Downtown Toronto

Benjamin J. Dichter in his Honking for Freedom substack remembers these murders in Toronto in 2018.

Yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of the tragic Danforth shooting in Toronto.

On July 22, 2018, an Islamic extremist walked through my neighbourhood and executed children who were out for ice cream with their parents, critically injuring several innocent bystanders.

No one in government has been held accountable for this tragedy, and the entire political class collaborated to sweep it under the rug. Worse, not a single word was mentioned by any politician or member of the media yesterday to mark the 7th anniversary.

This submission to foreign extremists who hold violent and alien values is yet another reason Canada is increasingly seen as pathetic, weak, and a security risk by nations around the world.

He then repeats the article by John Goddard, originally posted on July 27, 2020, for the second anniversary, not marked publicly because of pandemic restrictions.

Police Suppressed Details On Danforth Shooter’s Trip To Pakistan: Entire Magazine Emptied Into Prone Girl

TORONTO—His first target was a group of teenage girls eating ice cream.

He shot one girl through the hip, another in the stomach, a third twice in the stomach and kidney, and a fourth, Reese Fallon, three times in the left arm. The first three victims crumpled to the pavement.

Many details of that Sunday night two years ago, on July 22, were never made public. Police never disclosed that Fallon sustained 13 bullets, most of them fired point-blank. News reporters never put together that eight high-school friends stood at the parkette, seven girls and one guy, and that half of them were shot.

The next day, police reported a total of fifteen people shot, including two dead, but the civilian Special Investigations Unit ordered the shooter’s name withheld. Late in the day, when the unit relented and announced the name — a Muslim name — police and politicians warned against jumping to conclusions.

Police cited possible Islamic terrorism when they applied for search warrants, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) began a six-month probe into potential terrorist ties. Authorities also knew that the shooter’s brother was linked to the discovery of a chemical-weapons cache with serious national-security implications.

The shooter was Faisal Hussain. He was 29 years old, a skinny man with a long face, heavy eyebrows, and a close-cropped black beard. He still lived with his parents, devout Muslims from Pakistan.

Ten minutes after the shooting started, as police closed in, Hussain shot himself in the head.

“Our son had severe mental health challenges, struggling with psychosis and depression his entire life,” a press statement attributed to Hussain’s family said, but it would prove to be misleading.

Read it all here.