Toronto Mayor Praises City’s Reputation for ‘Being Inclusive’ Just Hours After Fatal Van Attack

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John Tory, the mayor of Toronto, came forward just hours after a man driving a rental van purposely drove into pedestrians and killed and injured several and said: I’m so proud our city is diverse and inclusive.

Talk about rubbing the faces of the victims with politically correct nonsense.

Suspect Alex Minassian

Tory spoke of the need to come together as a community while reminding how “inclusive” and “accepting” and “understanding” Toronto is.

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This, as police were wiping the streets of blood and bodies and injured victims.

From the Daily Caller News Foundation:

Toronto Mayor John Tory encouraged residents to remember their city’s worldwide reputation for tolerance and inclusiveness — hours after a man mowed down pedestrians with a rental van, killing at least nine people and injuring several more.

“This is a time when this community should come together … I hope that we will, as a city, remind ourselves of the fact that we are admired around the world for being inclusive and for being accepting and understanding and considerate,” Tory said at a news conference on Monday’s attack.

The suspect [Alex Minassian] drove a white Ryder van onto a sidewalk north of downtown Toronto, police said. After smashing into several pedestrians and coming to a stop, the man exited the van and waved a dark object at responding police officers. A brief standoff ensued, but officers were able to detain the suspect without firing any shots.

One suspect is in custody following the incident, which is being treated at a deliberate attack, acting Toronto Police Chief Peter Yuen confirmed. Witnesses described the suspect as being “Middle Eastern” in appearance, but authorities have not said if the attack is tied to Islamic terrorism.

Monday’s incident was reminiscent of an attack in Edmonton, Canada, in September 2017, when a Somali refugee went on a rampage downtown, stabbing a police officer and running over several pedestrians with a stolen truck. The attacker, Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, had an Islamic State flag in his car and was known to police for “espousing extremist ideology.”

He has not been charged with any terrorism offenses.

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iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago

It’s a heinous kind of scary in Canada now. The leaders are like the Queen of Hearts and her court in Alice’s wonderland.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago

We are so tolerant we will even let you kill us. So come on, kill our mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and pets. It’s OK because we are diverse and tolerant.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Well said. This is pretty much the way it is. When Mayor Tory discovered that Muslims had managed to take over tax payer funded public housing high risers and were denying accommodation to non-Muslims, he suddenly decided that it was good for people of the same group and thinking to live together. In one fell swoop ‘inclusiveness’ and ‘multiculturalism’ got swept aside for the sake of cowardly expediency. Just imagine what would have happened if Baptists, Methodists, Jews or Catholics had done this.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago

Maybe we’re too tolerant. Just throwing that out there.

Cai
Cai
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Many a true word spoken in jest.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Let us hope that he was not some kind of secret convert to Islam, they do come from all backgrounds and walks of life!

Roy Jennings
Roy Jennings
5 years ago

The Cnt Trudeau will not use the word terrorism regardless of the perpetrators origins. He is the epitome of why the World has to stop this humanity destroying ideology. What has happened to true humanity defending the righteous against the wrongs of those who would destroy our very culture.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
5 years ago

Sounds like, deep down, his id is pointing him towards Islam as the seminal culprit. Poor conflicted Canuckbrain!

JC Bond
JC Bond
5 years ago

Rat in a turban – are you talking about yourself? Minassian=Armenian=Christian. “Accused Toronto Killer Praised Woman-Hating Mass Murderer Moments Before Attack – Moments before allegedly killing 10 people in a van attack, Alek Minassian, 25, posted online about “supreme gentleman Elliot Rodger,” the woman-hating, California mass murderer. Sure sounds like Muslim terror doesn’t it?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  JC Bond

It’s interesting to note that in the case of muslum terrorist acts carried out by converts to islum the muslum convert’s non-muslim name (i.e. the names they had before converting to islum) were reported rather than their chosen muslum name.
Whether or not the Toronto authorities are engaged in a game of grab-a$$ and lying about or concealing the perp’s religious identity remains to be seen.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago

Every municipal politician in toronto should have a 4 inch paint brush soaked in turpentine slapped across their bare derrière’s for being stupid in a public place.

Dick Bates
Dick Bates
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

And LIT brother !

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Boy oh boy, Mahou, isn’t this is Toronto to the ‘T’? The idiocy – from city hall – is never ending and the citizens love it. It’s truly like a mental illness. Not a thing is done without politically correct thinking driving the agenda. You can see the gears grinding as they think, ‘What is the next best politically correct thing we can say and do? And for goodness sake, let us at all cost avoid telling the truth because truth might hurt someone’s feelings’.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Its the Left/Liberal /Feminazi pro-jihadi immigration that created the mess . Third wave feminism has created pussified men who won’t step up to protect them http://tinyurl.com/y9ll38ls

while muslims are more male driven thuggish and get away with it.

JC Bond
JC Bond
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Suresh, are you also planning to post an online tribute to psychopathic misogynist Alek Minassian AND his fellow “Woman-Hating Mass Murderer AND “supreme gentleman Elliot Rodger,” moments before your planned attack, or should we notify authorities now, before it’s too late.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  JC Bond

who is he ? your friend ?

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

BOW down to Moslems now. There ya go!! Once you get the feel of it, it will be alright. Bend at the knee, one two, one two. Better than Yoga or Tai Chi, says the Mayor.

durabo
durabo
5 years ago

You Frostbacks have become suicidal, eh?

Christian Christian
Christian Christian
5 years ago

So now Pamela Geller is against even Armenian immigration? What a blind bigot!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Would that be Christian Christian or Muslum Muslum?

Dick Bates
Dick Bates
5 years ago

Come on Iz ! You’re spelling it wrong !
It’s mooseslime ! You know ! The ones who worship the devil allahla and his numbnuts prophet , MOO-HAM-HEAD
( may pis be upon him ).

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

I think she was pointing out that the statement was in poor taste and possibly inappropriate given the recent deaths.

Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
5 years ago

She is solidly against people who use vehicles to murder innocent people, including infants and small children. I thought I read the most moronic statement yesterday, now today you come along and set a new record. Congratulations.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Still , she’s only against paedophilia when Muslims commit it. Why hasn’t she commented on the Jewish teacher Malka Leifer, who raped children and was smuggled back to Israel away from prosecution, by the Jewish community?
Or would that be too much like showing balance?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

Pedophilia (and pederasty) is LEGALIZED in your muslum sh!ttystans Abdul Al Taqiyya as are forced marriages.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

So , I’m guessing you might be Jewish. Based on your selective blindness to the comment about Malka Leifer. I suppose there’s no chance of you commenting on the issue? . You seem never short of something to say if a Muslim does it.
So here you are Jewcolluding to cover up child molestation in their own community. enjoy..
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IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

Because your f’ing islamic puppet states can’t be trusted to impartially try anyone anymore.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

So Australia is a “f’íng Muslim puppet state”?
If so ,why do the Jews stay there?
Is the another of your conspiracy theories at work here?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

“If so, why do the Jews stay there?”
Am I telepathic?
Oh wait I’m getting a read, after buggering a little boy for allah last night you went and ate some hummus using your right hand.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Well Isaac , I thought that maybe your mind could do at least something , Obviously rational thinking is off the menu.
But You had indicated you had telepathy. You “Knew” that we all knew that Authorities hid Terrorists names”
If that wasn’t telepathy , how did you know?

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

LOL. Well said.

Dick Bates
Dick Bates
5 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Yup ! Darwin award of the day !

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago

What a liar, liar pretend Christian you are. If the above is what you deduce, then your powers or reason are that of a microbe.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago

I guess you haven’t heard that these weak-minded morons of Toronto are planning to have a ‘multi-faith’ religious service in the area of this mass murder and some joker is going to play music for a while – to help with the healing. In fact it will induce more sadness, more ‘weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth’. I know that I shouldn’t, but this foolishness actually makes me laugh. A disgusting man murders ten people, injures many more, and yet the first instinct of Mayor Tory and Premier Kathleen Wynne is to say, ‘This is not us. We are so pure. We pee Au-de-Cologne’. Liberal, pampered, drippy Toronto is without question one of the most flake-brained cities in the entire universe.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

With my background South African, I have a more uncompromising mentality than 98 per cent around here, so would pack these Muslims out quicker than they can blink an eye. Further, having read the Qur’an and studied their history I understand their rubbish, lying deceiving ‘taqiyya’ mentality. The only ‘ironing out’ and ‘co-operation’ they’d get would be my approach.

MajorTom
MajorTom
5 years ago

I wonder, what is the immigration status of this slug?

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago

It’s simple, weakness invites aggression.

Andy
Andy
5 years ago

You are right and that is why Trump is making the USA GREAT AGAIN. Even animals know that weakness attracts attacks.

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
5 years ago

If there’s no link to Islamic terrorism, why would he run on about being “inclusive”? I smell a rat. In a turban.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  oceanfloor1

Why? Because John Tory is mayor of the world champion, dimwitted liberal, politically correct city in the world, famous for telling everyone how much people ‘all round the world’ admire Toronto for embracing every nincompoop idea imaginable – like ‘inclusiveness’. My one daughter who grew up round Toronto, now lives in northern London and upon hearing this incessant, delusional, self-praising Royal Canadian Crap once said to me, “We almost never hear anything about Canada”.

M. Marsares
M. Marsares
5 years ago

Apparently, Minassian may actually be a simpleton. He couldn’t hack Canadian army boot camp because he would not obey orders. Indications are he did not know what to do because he was unable understand what was being asked.

He does not appear to be Muslim. He appears to be impressionable.
To date, no jihadis have taken credit.
Still, he was able to rent a van. Or was someone working with and manipulating him?

Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
5 years ago

Feds – “We 100% have NO idea what inspired this person to do what he did. We 100% know this vehicle attack had nothing to do with Islam, ISIS, Jihadi or the worship of Mohammad.”

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Hmm Suspect of Middle Eastern appearance.. you mean like Jesus?
The police have mentioned any motive, but , hey , that’s leaves it open for Pam to suggest he was somehow motivated by Islam..
The reports seem to suggest he was motivated by a hatred of women and aimed his attack at them. If only he’d met Pam, he’d know there’s nothing to be afraid of .

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

When it finally comes out that the perp is yet another f’ing allahtard you’ll disappear like a fart in the wind.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Oh Izzydownwind
One can get away with a fart in the wind, but you’re pissing in the wind, and as usual you’re pissing into it . Don’t worry , it’ll all come back to you.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Remember to remind me if it does. I’m still waiting for confirmation that, The London Hi rise fire, The London Car Fire,The Bourke St car killings The Narbonne Rapist etc, All breathlessly reported by Pam, but just as quickly forgotten

OH wait , the global conspiracy covered it up. In fact they seem to cover up everything that might show Pam to be wrong. Amazing how they can do that and keep it a secret.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

The Las Vegas shooter was a f’ing muslum and it has been successfully covered up by the rotten law enforcement entities that “investigated” the crime.
FOAD allahtard, painfully.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Izzydownesyndrome. And I suppose all these different authorities colluded to cover up the others too
And the Golden State Killer, just arrested an early convert to Islam. Damn clever had a white name Joseph James Deangelo. And I’m surewould have shouted Allah Akbar each time he killed.
Now I hope you don’t mind my asking, but you wouldn’t be an “incel” would you?
I mean bitter and twisted. Or is that something the Toronto authorities have fabricated too?
So , you started off with “When it finally comes out…’but now you say it won’t comeout because it’s been successfully covered up.
Will there be yet another version tomorrow?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

Yes we all know the authorities don’t report the muslum name converts use after they convert to islum and kill their kaffir for allah the barbarian.
My faith in the Canadian authorities is right up their w/my belief that islum is a religion of peace muslum knuckle dragger.

May the muslum world experience a nuclear enlightenment.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

IzzyDownesyndrome.

“We all know” who is this ‘we all” ? How many is “all”?
And how do you know we all kn?
Or is that one of your known unknowns?
Are you sure you’re not an incel?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

R U sure you’re not a boy buggering muslum rat?

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Izzy , You’ve gone very quite , not on the road to Texas. Kentucky or another of the legal states , are you?

But While you are mentioning “boy Buggering”. How do you feel about Princess Pam’s best friend Milo Yianopoulos and his publicly stated approval of older men having sex with boys?

I see Pam doesn’t seem to have condemned it . Am to take it she approves, and that ipso facto, you also approve?

It’swell documented about Milo . Neil Diamond wrote as ong about it
‘Milo when I was young
I used to call your name
When no one else would cum
Milo you always came
Cum today.
Touching really in a Pam sort of way.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ed Nantes

Milo’s approval of boy buggery doesn’t extend to the legalized practice of it across the muslum world (i.e. in Pakistain, Bangaldesh, Aghanistain, Iranistain).
Nice try allahtard, you are the weakest link.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Isaac, Well, well, “legalised practice” you say. Would that be like the legalised practiceof bestiality in all those US states? Horses for courses , as they say . sort of appropriately.
So do tell, Do you agree with Milo? It’s odd, Pam who never misses an opportunity to condemn any suspicion of Muslim paedophilia, seems strangely quite on Milo.
They used to be bosom buddies [ to possibly mix a metaphor.
Andit must be a bit awkward when they all get together with Sloppy Steve Bannon { That’s Donald’s description.] Milo having been fired from Breibart and all.
I’m just wondering how you all rationalise this.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Well , which state are you in . If you are in Hawaii, Kentucky , Nevada , New MexicVermont, West Virginia , Texas and Wyoming it’s legal fr you to engage in bestiality.

Oh , you already knew? That why you live in one of them. Well i suppose that puts a whole new meaning into “Grab ’em by the pussy.” DJT must have been in one of the above states.

Alex Committed JIHAD FOR ALLAH
Alex Committed JIHAD FOR ALLAH
5 years ago

Yes, Mayor Tory should remind people that White people and Chinese are also human beings not just Muslims who murder in the name of Allah.

Yes, Alex Minassian is obviously unstable and has personal problems, but he was smart enough to rent a fully equipped van to do maximum damage. He knew exactly what he was doing. This was planned.

Islam is the only religion when you have personal problems instead of speaking to a professional Islam incites them to commit JIHAD.

Exuperancia Pérez
Exuperancia Pérez
5 years ago

I have received informations that this Armenian individual has Syrian roots and that he was born there, there was a copy of his FB postings in which he among other things praises Allah, shows that he is a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo of whom he has a big poster in his bedroom (gay tendencies or just “love of football?”) etc. but since the powers-that-be and the MSM (like it is the case in Europe and in Canada for instance) conceal facts and tell lies all the time, I don’t know what and whom I can believe, but there is a possibility that this Minassian used to be a christian Armenian who converted to islam.
Hopefully time will tell. (if the powers that be don’t cover up the facts…)

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago

Be assured that this being Canada, if the ‘powers that be’ find out that he has links with Islam or is a convert, they will cover it up. We have yet to have disclosed all the facts about the Quebec mosque shooting, so I’ll remind everyone that when that shooting occurred those in the mosque said there were two attackers, but then after they were caught the one with a Muslim name morphed into someone who helped the victims.

Ed Nantes
Ed Nantes
5 years ago

Meanwhile Toronto Police say the are searching for an accomplice , ”of Middle Eastern appearance” .
He is described as ‘swarthy , of Middle Eastern appearance, long hair and beard, taken to dressing in frocks and last seen with noticeable scars on his hands and feet.’
He is reputed to be a distant relative of that well know terrorist Mohammed. { and God] His hair is said to have a glow around it “Like Donald Trumps on a windy day’ as one witness described it.
Police have released this identikit picture of the wanted person, Said to be taken as he prepared for dinner after Ramadan.
They warn he should be approached with caution.
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satcatchet
satcatchet
5 years ago

Get a rope for John Tory’s neck. That will change the world’s thoughts about Canada’s reputation.
Where’s Sargent Preston when you need him?

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