May 16, 2018
The judge said “The attack was motivated by the defendant’s radical religious and ideological beliefs but there is no dispute that the formation of those beliefs was in large part precipitated by mental disorder,” and judge acquitted him of terrorism charges while also finding him ‘not criminally responsible.’
In March of 2016, Ayanle Hassan Ali walked into a Canadian military recruitment office and began attacking Canadian soldiers with a knife.
Two soldiers were wounded before Ali was stopped.
And yet, even though the judge in the case clearly said that Ali had an ideological motive, he was found not criminally responsible, and acquitted of terrorism charges.
According to a CBC report, the judge said “The attack was motivated by the defendant’s radical religious and ideological beliefs but there is no dispute that the formation of those beliefs was in large part precipitated by mental disorder,” the judge says in his decision. “One of the beliefs that the defendant had formed in his mentally disordered state was that killing Canadian military personnel was justified because the military was fighting in Muslim lands.”
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