This is the best summary I could come up with:
According to court documents obtained by CBC, investigators were alerted last spring to a video posted on Facebook that appeared to show a man shooting a rifle into a photograph of Wilson Miao before stating that the MP for Richmond Centre was going to “get what is coming to him.”
“Our primary focus is on co-operating fully with law enforcement to ensure a thorough and impartial inquiry,” Miao’s chief of staff, Alfred Lai, wrote in an email to CBC News.
He made headlines in the months after as opponents claimed he and another newly elected MP benefited from the influence of pro-China activists — allegations Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino rejected as baseless.
According to the information sworn to obtain the search warrant, an acquaintance of the suspect approached the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) on May 15, 2023, after seeing a disturbing video posted on the man’s Facebook page.
“The third part was a video of an Asian male … wearing black sunglasses and a beige face covering holding what appeared to be a shotgun somewhere in the wilderness,” the search warrant reads.
The officer who applied for the search warrant wrote that he was aware “from my experiences as a national security investigator that ‘Allahu akbar’ is often a phrase uttered by Islamic extremists prior to committing violent and terrorist acts.”
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“Asian” male very concerned about Chinese interference and using islamic terminology? What kind of unholy Venn diagram is this? Sounds like someone with severe mental issues (even accounting for the death threats) rather than any coherent ideology.
Uighur’s are a ethinc minority in china that are Muslim and are facing repression at the hands of the Chinese gov.
Not saying that there is any connection, but asian Muslims are a thing.
That would as far as I know be the first case of Uighur terrorism in the west. It also strains credulity that one would speak Arabic.
Could be from a different Muslim group, as the Uighur’s aren’t the only ones. Might not be Chinese, could have converted in a predominantly Arabic mosque, or is using islam as a cover.
There are other options most likely, but people who make terroristic threats often try to hide who they are.
