A Pakistani national arrested last week in Quebec who was plotting to carry out a mass shooting at Jewish targets in Brooklyn came to Canada on a student visa, Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday.
Miller said Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was granted a student visa in May 2023 and arrived in Toronto in June of that year. Miller said he wouldn’t provide any more details since the case is before the courts.
Authorities in the U.S. allege Khan planned to use guns and knives to carry out a mass shooting in support of the Islamic State group on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Federal prosecutors described the alleged plan as an attempt to “slaughter as many Jewish people as possible.”
The Conservative opposition party in Canada have been demanding the government answer questions about how Khan was allowed into the country.
“We take any security breach and any entry into Canada very seriously,” Miller said. “Let’s not be naïve. A determined individual can gain access to this country and that is for the security services inside our country to apprehend this person if they commit a crime or if they’re about to commit a crime.”
Miller added that Canada’s police forces “did their jobs” by arresting the individual and that “we’ll let the court case take its course.”
Khan told uncover agents that he planned to carry out a “coordinated assault” with AR-style rifles at “Israeli-Jewish chabads” on October 7 or on Yom Kippur, which falls out on October 11 this year.
Earlier this year a man and his son were arrested for allegedly plotting to carry out a terror attack in Toronto.
The father, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, has Canadian citizenship but the son, Mostafa Eldidi, does not.
The father is also accused of committing an aggravated assault in 2015 for the benefit of the Islamic State group somewhere outside of Canada.
(AP & YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The police seem to be doing a good job. The problem is what happens if the woke wing of the Democrats comes to power (with their support of Hamas’s demand to kill all Jews in Eretz Yisrael and elsewhere, compounded with their well established demand to “defund the police”).