Ali said (thanks to the Geller Report): “Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people.”

“‘While it is common ground that the defendant had become radicalized, there is no evidence of any connection between him and any other person or group in relation to the attack,’ MacDonnell said in his decision Monday, noting that Ali’s radical religious and ideological beliefs were largely the result of his mental illness.”

So apparently the Canadian authorities do not believe that an individual can be capable of committing an act of terrorism on his own. He has to be part of a group. That is absurd, and even more absurd is the claim that “Ali’s radical religious and ideological beliefs were largely the result of his mental illness.” Is Judge Ian MacDonnell saying that jihad is a manifestation of mental illness? So why is this peculiar pathology so widespread among Muslims, and nonexistent among non-Muslims?

“Man accused in military centre stabbing acquitted of terror charges,” Canadian Press, May 14, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):