Six people dead and 19 injured yesterday in a deadly attack on a Quebec mosque, and somehow Fox News can’t seem to figure out who was the suspected shooter and who was an innocent witness.
Earlier Monday, Fox News wrote a tweet that read, “Suspect in Quebec mosque terror attack was of Moroccan origin.” Even after the suspect had been identified as Bissonnette, Fox has not yet issued a correction.
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Police initially arrested two suspects in the attack, one of whom appears to be French Canadian and one who is of Moroccan descent, who was then released by the police and is now considered a witness.
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Bissonnette, who reportedly called police to turn himself in after the shooting, was identified by the leader of a local immigration rights group as an anti-immigrant “troll.” According to a local paper, Bissonnette also had a history of making misogynistic remarks online.
On Facebook, his “likes” include far-right french nationalist Marine Le Pen and Donald J. Trump. A former classmate told another Quebecois publication that Bissonnette was pro-Trump and anti-immigration.
So we have a dark skinned Morrocan and we have a white skinned racist Trump supporter, and Fox immediately thinks who is the terrorist who murdered nearly a dozen Muslims? And then can’t bring themselves to correct the mistake. Because… of course.
It may be that this deliberate strategic ignorance by Fox is why Trump regime spokes-shouter Sean Spicer failed to acknowledge that any Muslims were even injured in this attack and that it somehow — in some mystical way — actually justifies and fortifies the reasoning for the bigoted Muslim ban implemented by Friday’s executive order.
Then, Spicer referenced the attack on the mosque as a justification for Trump’s new executive order on immigration, which followed his campaign promise to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
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“It’s a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant and why the president is taking steps to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to our nation’s safety and security,” Spicer said about the Quebec attack.
Bissonette is a native of Canada. No travel ban would have prevented his attack on this mosque, unless what Spicer really means is either that the Moroccan muslim wrongly identified by Fox shouldn’t have allowed to immigrate to Canada or else this is all somehow the fault of the worshippers in the mosque who were gunned down for having the temerity to be lawfully and legally in Quebec.
Bojemoi!
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017 · 2:17:13 AM +00:00 · Frank Vyan Walton
Fox has reported about the correct suspect finally, they claim that he shouted “Alluha akbar” as he attacked and that he had extreme right-wing views, that a pigs-head and swastikas had been placed near the mosque but not that he was a anti-immigrant Trump supporter.
The suspect was identified as 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a student at the nearby Laval University, the CBC reported. Bissonnette also was charged with five counts of attempted murder.
A second man, Mohamed el Khadir, was initially identified as an additional suspect by Quebec officials. Reuters and the French language newspaper La Presse reported earlier that one of the suspects was of Moroccan origin, a report that was picked up by Fox News and other news outlets. But police later announced there was only one suspect in the attack, and Khadir was identified as a witness.
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A possible motive was unclear. Police said they did not believe there were other suspects.
“Unclear” — yeah, right, ok.
Saturday, Feb 4, 2017 · 3:59:16 PM +00:00
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Frank Vyan Walton
Fox has finally apologized for their mistaken tweet.
Amid pressure from the Canadian prime minister, Fox News has apologized for a tweet that inaccurately identified the suspect in Sunday night's Quebec mosque terror attack as a man of Moroccan origin.
"FoxNews.com initially corrected the misreported information with a tweet and an update to the story on Monday. The earlier tweets have now been deleted," Refet Kaplan, the managing director at FoxNews.com, said in a statement. "We regret the error."