Muslims also have a responsibility in the fight against terrorism, Quebec premier says
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says Muslims also have a responsibility in the fight against terrorism.
Couillard says the stabbing of a police officer at the Flint airport in Michigan is the kind of terrorist event that cannot be disconnected “from Islam in general.”
The premier was speaking a day after a Montreal man from Tunisia was charged after someone shouted in Arabic before stabbing the officer in the neck.
A criminal complaint charging Amor Ftouhi with committing violence at an airport says he asked an officer who subdued him why the officer didn’t kill him.
Couillard said fighting terrorism is a responsibility that must be shared by everyone, including Muslims.
Wednesday’s attack at Bishop International Airport is being investigated as an act of terrorism, but the FBI says authorities have no indication at this time the suspect was involved in a “wider plot.”
The FBI says Ftouhi tried unsuccessfully to buy a gun while in the United States for five days.
David Gelios, head of the FBI in Detroit, made the disclosure Thursday during a news conference. He did not elaborate.
Acting U.S. Attorney Dan Lemisch says more charges are coming in the days ahead. Ftouhi is in custody.
Amor Ftouhi managed to purchase a knife. He is a dual citizen of Canada and Tunisia. He’s accused of stabbing airport police Lt. Jeff Neville after yelling “Allahu akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is great.”
According to the FBI, Ftouhi said something similar to “you have killed people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die.”