An update on this story. The plans to allow Ayanle Hassan Ali, who said that Allah told him to kill people and stabbed three Canadian soldiers, to attend college “have now been scuttled, Chaimowitz told the board, because the ‘unflattering’ media coverage led them to worry that Ali himself might be in danger from another student.”
Yes, of course. His safety is paramount. To be concerned about the safety of the Mohawk College students or others who might encounter this violent jihadi would be “Islamophobic.”
“MANDEL: NCR stabber wants passes and overnight stays with Toronto family,” by Michele Mandel, Toronto Sun, July 17, 2019:
HAMILTON — Following negative media publicity and a blowback from some staff, students and their parents, the mentally-ill man who attacked soldiers at a Toronto military recruiting office won’t be bound for Mohawk College after all.
He’ll likely be heading somewhere else….
The hospital and his psychiatrist, Dr. Gary Chaimowitz, recommended the board clear him to have unaccompanied passes into southern Ontario and travel within a 50-kilometre radius of Hamilton for education or employment. They also agreed with a request by his lawyer Maureen Addie that he be eligible for 48-hour overnight passes to Toronto under the supervision of his father or sister.
None of these would be automatic, they hastened to add, but would be implemented slowly by the hospital as Ali improves. “We take risk to the community as our priority,” insisted Chaimowitz.
Yet he decried the community uproar about their plans to allow Ali to attend Mohawk College across the street from the hospital. The story – first revealed here last year – was back in the news this week after the Court of Appeal upheld the ORB’s controversial decision to allow him to enrol and eventually go on his own.
Those plans have now been scuttled, Chaimowitz told the board, because the “unflattering” media coverage led them to worry that Ali himself might be in danger from another student.
But what of the danger he poses?
Only Crown attorney Craig Fraser opposed the extension of Ali’s privileges in the face of continuing concerns about his mental health.
According to his psychiatrist, Ali continues to get messages from the Internet and TV that the military is keeping tabs on him and still believes Canadian soldiers are legitimate targets due to their missions to Muslim lands. “His psychotic disorder is not completely treated,” conceded Chaimowitz. “I still have work in the future.”
In fact, Ali’s belief system hasn’t changed much since he stormed into the Yonge St. office armed with a kitchen knife.
“He still feels it is his obligation to do something about it,” Fraser warned.