He was arrested without incident at a shopping centre about 6km 4. It is not yet known if the suspect has ties to any hate groups, said Det Supt Waight. Officials added that there was good weather and high visibility conditions when the black truck was seen mounting the kerb on Hyde Park Road at around local time on Sunday.
One witness told CTV News she had to shield her young daughter's eyes from the bodies. Another witness told CTV the scene was "just chaos". There was a lot of pointing and screaming and arm waving.
A census found that London - a city about km miles south-west of Toronto - is growing increasingly diverse. One in five people was born outside of Canada, with Arabs being the area's largest minority group, and South Asians coming in a close second. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that he was "horrified" by the news. Hate and Islamophobia have NO place in Ontario. Justice must be served for the horrific act of hatred that took place in London, Ontario yesterday.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends during this difficult time. These heinous acts of violence must stop. We are also here for the child who remains in hospital - our hearts go out to you, and you will be in our thoughts as you recover. In a statement, Mayor Holder said he was speaking "on behalf of all Londoners when I say our hearts are broken".
I tell them what the Koran says: 'Even if you stretch out your hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand against you to kill you. I fear Allah, the Lord of the World. I tell them that the Prophet forbade the killing of civilians, women and children, the old and infirm, the wanton destruction of property, burning of crops and slaughter of animals, even in a full-scale war.
They ask me about martyrdom. No one, but no one, knows where they'll end up. Only God knows. Even the Prophet wept with fear that he may not be forgiven. He stood with his odd followers against an army of 4, well-equipped soldiers, to uphold justice against injustice in the full knowledge that it would cost him his life.
His sacrifice was the inevitable consequence of holding firm to what is morally right, not a sought-after, self-chosen, wilful self-sacrifice of one acting beyond any moral or ethical restraint. Suicide hijackers disdain the preciousness of each and everyone of God's creation, themselves and their victims; they cheapen the name of martyr.
To sacrifice one's property, security and comfort and, if there is no other way, one's life, for the cause of what is right and just is martyrdom for all faiths. But faith also teaches the limits of human understanding, that we will all be judged and the meaning of our actions made clear by the Most Compassionate, the All Knowing.
Martyrdom, like life, is the gift and judgment of God, not of men. Only within the bounds of belief, within attachment to the duties of faith, can anyone hope to walk the path to paradise. Neither is the paradise of Islam some kind of brothel that provides the services of '70 virgins' to its denizens - the nonsense the press attributes to these murderous paradise-seekers.
Far from being an abode of pleasure, the paradise of the Koran is a place of sublime innocence. The 'virgins', or 'houris', derive their name from the eyes of gazelles. They personify beauty and innocence; these eyes have never cast their gaze on sin. The vigil started with the Muslim call to prayer, which — for the first time in Canadian history — was aired on national television. A moment of silence was held at 8.
The suspect, Nathaniel Veltman, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. But how many more people have to die before politicians do something? At the vigil, the prime minister was met by a muted response, but other prominent politicians were greeted with open hostility. In London, home to close to 40, Muslims, many of its , residents said that racist micro-aggressions were an everyday part of life, but until now, none had ever felt unsafe to walk the streets.
The Afzaals moved to the city from Pakistan 14 years ago and soon became much-loved members of the local community.
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