Toronto: Muslim TAKES WOMAN HOSTAGE to protest counter-terror policing

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“Muhammed Islam said his motivations for the kidnapping were related to years of being surveilled and monitored by the RCMP, and that he was desperate for it to stop.”

The Muslim kidnapped a woman, I’d say it was a very good thing he was being surveiled. Wouldn’t you?

I guarantee that the RCMP will stop surveillance on Mr. Islam – while he is doing 7 to 10 years for kidnapping.

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‘I took a hostage. Are you listening to me?’

Wednesday morning, a man called the Toronto Star saying he was “at a breaking point.” It was clear this was unlike any other call into the newsroom.

By Wendy Gillis, Victoria Gibson, Ainslie Cruickshank, Alex McKeen, The Star, June 28, 2017 (thanks to Chai):

It began with what seemed like any other tip called in to the Toronto Star’s 24-hour news desk.

But the man on the line — his voice steady, at times upset but never once raised — would soon reveal he had made a desperate move.

He was “at a breaking point.” He needed to be listened to. This is what it would take, he said.

Over the phone, a woman’s desperate screams could be heard — “I have family!” she cried.

It was clear this was unlike any other call into the newsroom.

What unfolded beginning around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday was a daylight hostage-taking in an Eglinton West massage parlour tucked into an industrial area strip mall. Heavily armed members of Toronto police’s Emergency Task Force soon descended on the area, patrolling the area with guns and taking position on top of nearby buildings, according to witnesses.

The more than hour-long negotiation — beginning first with a call to the Star, and ending with a Toronto police negotiator — would end shortly after noon with the safe rescue of a woman who was being held inside Studio 9 massage parlour, and the arrest of a burly man dressed all in black.

Michael Storms, 35, was charged Wednesday with forcible confinement and uttering threats.

The man on the phone had told the Star he had converted to Islam when he was 20, and also went by the name Muhammed Islam. The caller said his motivations for the kidnapping were related to years of being surveilled and monitored by the RCMP, and that he was desperate for it to stop.

The RCMP did not return a request for comment to the Star by press time.

In a 2014 article in the National Post, a Toronto man identified as Muhammed Islam was named as one of approximately 90 high-risk travellers whose passports were seized to prevent them from travelling to take part in extremist violence abroad.

In a YouTube video posted in 2014, a man called Michael Storms identifies himself as Muhammed Islam and says he had a difficult childhood, grew up with family that were “very bad people” — “that was a my upbringing, crime and violence, drugs.”

“I was never alone, but I felt lonely,” he says in the video.

Throughout Wednesday’s incident, the man on the phone stressed that his actions were not motivated by terrorism and he staunchly did not support it.

Below is an account of events on Wednesday, based on interviews with witnesses and police and a recording of more than an hour of the negotiations.

The incident began inside Studio 9 spa, when a regular who staff knew as Mike walked in. Immediately, he began by giving instructions to the receptionist: cover the massage parlour windows with paper and duct tape, which he had brought in his bag.

According to a woman who identified herself as Nyla, who did not want her last name used, she and another woman working inside the parlour were told they could leave, but the man prevented one woman from leaving. Nyla said the man she knew as Mike then told them the situation had nothing to do with them, but he needed someone to listen to him.

Inside the Toronto Star newsroom, the phone rang in the Radio Room, the 24-hour news desk. Reporter Fakiha Baig took the call.

Baig thought it was another call alerting the Star to a story idea, and listened as the man began speaking about how he was being surveilled.

Then she heard a woman shouting.

“I could hear her crying in the background, saying something like ‘why are you doing this,’ and asking for help,” Baig said after the incident.

The caller, who identified himself as Michael, began telling Baig that he needed to do something drastic to be heard.

“I’ve needed help for a long time, OK? And nobody will listen. The only way to do this is to create a situation. A crisis, OK? Which is what I’m doing. So I took a hostage. Are you listening to me?”

“Yes, sir, where are you exactly?” asked Baig, who had begun recording the call.

Michael tells her exactly where he is, then goes on, insistent on explaining his motivations.

“This is being done out of desperation,” Michael says. “Because I don’t know what to do, right? Nobody will listen, nobody will help me, right?”

As more crying can be heard in the background, Baig realizes she needs to get someone else involved — “I’m not hanging up sir, can you give me one second?” she tells him.

Baig leaves, rushing through the newsroom to tell Star editor Jennifer Quinn what is going on…..

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pdxnag
pdxnag
6 years ago

Change your name to John Liberty. Leave Islam. Then never cross paths with any Muslim, at least not any pious Muslim that would want to kill you, then all will be well. Or at least it could have been, until you acted all Muslim.

TDD
TD
6 years ago

Was this even in the news on TV?
stupid MSM.

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

It’s NOT terror-related. he was just a desperate man trying to make a statement. the islamophobic government restringed his right to travel to syria, he was so stressed

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago

Yes, another disgusting, stupid, religion-phobic Muslim wanting to be free to commit criminal or cruel acts. All around us now there are mentally unbalanced Muslims – made some by Islam and its teachings – committing Islam-driven acts of brutality or murder, and you make excuses for them. You are truly pathetic!

tatka150
tatka150
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

of course not

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

This is Rich . A jihadi claiming he is not terrorist after taking hostage because he didn’t like being monitored so he could plan a jihad !

More muslims you bring in more they will create such Loony jihadi converts.

Left/liberal Loons want to bring in more of these savages and then act surprised at the increase in jihadi attacks, rapes, assaults.

Don’t be surprised when the Left/Liberals start honoring ISIS, hamas jihadis just the way Islamonazis in America are demanding Americans do http://bit.ly/2qvcHov

MSM will not talk about it ……nor will they be deported for insulting US military & supporting jihadis.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Agreed, but you left out the part about how leftist/libtards not only want to import more trouble but confiscate our privately owned firearms as well as in the UK, placing us at the mercy of monsters.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Fault lies with voters who voted the Left/Liberal Loons to power.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Don’t they have functioning brain to think for themselves and read, learn beyond school / college indoctrination inspite of increasing jihadi attacks ?

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Marycpalmer
6 years ago
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felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

First time i read or heard about this…
So at age 20 he converts to VIOLENT ISLAM.
They sure know how to size up the nutcases.

In a YouTube video posted in 2014, a man called Michael Storms identifies himself as Muhammed Islam and says he had a difficult childhood, grew up with family that were “very bad people” — “that was a my upbringing, crime and violence, drugs.”

pandainc
pandainc
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Hmmm. Wunner if the original muhammed islam also had a difficult childhood — what with all those gods and goats and such …

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Cowards, to target women…then again, they always have been.

Steve
Steve
6 years ago

If surveillance bothered him that much perhaps he ought to have addressed the reasons for it and worked to turn things around but instead he went hunting to find a victim and then tries to lie about being a victim.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Typical stupid muslim, cannot understand that criminals are observed and treated as criminals. However, if he puts his case to the human rights commission, he will be exonerated, the police force made to pay restitution for having his civil rights violated. Toronto is in a liberal enclave of muslims.

wilypagan
wilypagan
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Nuke Toronto!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

That would increase real estate values through urban improvement.

wpjokari
wpjokari
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

http://www.killedbypolice.net/victims/170521.jpgcomment image
Robbery Suspect Dressed in Muslim Attire Engages in Shootout with Baltimore County Police
https://youtu.be/QuMb12ckhXs
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Erb may be a “ginger Jihadi,” a term that’s used in the UK to described redheads who, strangely, seem to have an attraction for radical Islam (which is …

gia
gia
6 years ago
Reply to  wpjokari

Ugh he’s terrible!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  wpjokari

Mutgonad, police beat upon him, was a red head, some muslims dye their hair in honour of the retard.

tatka150
tatka150
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Yes, I’ve seen it in their airport

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

True, and the conservative opposition are not inclined to organize resistance.

wilypagan
wilypagan
6 years ago
Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Why does the episode at the Pulse night club in Orlando come to mind?

? TigerBear ??
? TigerBear ??
6 years ago

Not a peep from the lamestream media. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! ?

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Philip O'Neill
Philip O'Neill
6 years ago

If you can’t take the heat, then throw more gas on the fire.
Quran Surah 4 verse 7

Arcturus
Arcturus
6 years ago

Just because his name is Muhammed Islam conclusions are jumped to that he is a musllm. lol

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

should have been haram, or at least a temporary marriage, it was a rub and tug,

http://premierspas.com/

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Street criminals, involved in crime, violence and drugs, are prime targets for recruitment to islam.

ajweberman
ajweberman
6 years ago

Once you descend into irrationality there is no telling where it will take you

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