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DonViejo

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Sat Apr 14, 2018, 09:16 AM Apr 2018

Trudeau's Trump Travel Ban Reaction Motivated Quebec City Mosque Mass Shooter

BY MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN ON 4/13/18 AT 5:49 PM

Alexandre Bissonnette, the man who attacked a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, killing six and injuring 19 others, told police that he was reacting in part to news that related to President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to Canadian press reports.

In his confession played to the court during his testimony hearing Friday, Bissonnette told police during his interrogation that news coverage of Trump’s travel ban, which initially sought to bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from the United States and stirred widespread protest at that time, played a role in inspiring the attack. He also referenced a tweet by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that appeared to be issued in reaction to Trump, promising to bring more refugees into Canada.




Bissonette described feeling “tortured” by the idea of Muslims coming into his country.

“I was watching TV and I learned that the Canadian government was going to take more refugees, you know, who couldn’t go to the United States, and they were coming here,” Bissonnette said. “I saw that and I like lost my mind. I don’t want us to become like Europe. I don’t want them to kill my parents, my family. ”

“I had to, I had to do something, I couldn’t do nothing. It was something that tortured me.”

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Trudeau's Trump Travel Ban Reaction Motivated Quebec City Mosque Mass Shooter (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Similar to the young man who massacred members of a black church in Charleston. yardwork Apr 2018 #1

yardwork

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1. Similar to the young man who massacred members of a black church in Charleston.
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 09:50 AM
Apr 2018

People are being brainwashed into a state of terror. They believe that they and their families are in severe danger. The threat is essentially nonexistent but to them, it's real. And some of these brainwashed people are responding by attacking immigrants and people of color.

This is how genocides happen.

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