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Now that one of those Syrian migrants is accused of a horrific murder of a 13-year-old girl, Trudeau has remained silent; he has offered no comment, no condolences to the family dealing with an unthinkable loss.

As with the illegal border crisis, which many in the media have defended and insisted upon calling it “irregular” instead of illegal, many are torquing the facts in the Burnaby murder case to downplay this horrific crime.

Several media outlets scrubbed the fact that the accused is a Syrian refugee from their coverage, and CTV published a story about how the accused, Ibrahim Ali, was a “normal guy.”

This is reminiscent of the news coverage of Danforth shooter Faisal Hussain. After his deadly rampage, morally confused journalists called for Canadians to rally around the gunman’s family, and began to promote a narrative that the man who ruthlessly gunned down young women in a vibrant Toronto neighbourhood was the real victim.

In the case of the Burnaby murder, likewise, the church that sponsored the accused killer offered their prayers — to the alleged murderer’s family.

“Our prayers also (go) to the Ali family. We know that like many refugee families, they have endured their own suffering and loss and that this tragedy is made all the more complex by the trials they have faced.”

Even the police felt the need to defend Trudeau’s Syrian refugee program.

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“I think by and large the refugees that come to this country are hard-working citizens that are very happy to be in Canada,” said an RCMP officer.