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The Toronto Star categorically dismisses any connection between the the Islamic State (a.k.a. IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh and Caliphate) and Islam arguing that it is “criminal” entity which falsely pretends as Islamic.
Michael Cooke, Toronto Star’s editor-in-chief, described the Islamic State as “multinational gang of killers and rapists” who “have no legitimacy as a state”.
Olivia Ward, Toronto Star’s Foreign Affairs Reporter, elaborated on the Star’s editorial policy to avoid calling the Islamic State “Islamic”: “That’s because the criminal gang that has murdered, raped and pillaged its way across the Middle East, while sending sycophants to slaughter civilians abroad, is neither Islamicnor an internationally recognized state.”
Toronto Star’s editorial on March 24, 2016, which dealt with the wave of ISIS terrorist attacks, assertedthat “terrorism is a crime that aspires to look like war.”
The Toronto Star added, “We do not need to stoop to their level to combat them, or succumb to the alarmism and divisiveness they aim to sow… Daesh and its ilk are a menace, but not on the apocalyptic scale they would have the world believe.”
According to the Toronto Star, the Police, implicitly not the army, should have the leading role in fight the “criminal” ISIS organization. “Rather than echo and amplify the jihadists’ rhetoric of war, Europe’s leaders should respond by ensuring that police have the resources they need to tackle the threat.”
Estimation: Millions of “criminals”, “psychopaths” worldwide pretend as Muslims
The CIA estimated in 2014 that between 21,000-31,500 operatives joined ISIS. In March 2016, Britain’s Sky News reported it had obtained 22,000 Islamic State files that detail ISIS fighters’ real names, where they were from, telephone numbers, and even names of those who sponsored and recruited the militants.
The total number of operatives who fight (or support) in the ranks of ISIS and ISIS/ Qaeda inspired groups in the Middle East and globally are estimated in millions.
Palestinian Islamist terrorists are not “criminals/ psychopaths”, but “militants”
In stark contrast, the Toronto Star avoids calling the Palestinian Islamic terrorist group “terrorist”, even tough since 2002 it has been officially designated by the Canadian government as a terrorist entity.
The terms “criminals”, “gang of killers” and “sycophants” used by the Star to describe ISIS operatives are not attributed to Hamas or to any other Palestinian terrorist group.
The Star also refrains from arguing that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hizb ut-Tahrir do not represent Islam.
Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades is called by the Star “Hamas armed wing”, “Hamas’ military wing” or “Hamas militant group” and its operatives “militants” and “gunman”.
When Hamas killed 18 Palestinians in ISIS-style mass execution in 2014, the Toronto Star wrote the following: “Hamas-led gunmen execute 18 ‘collaborators’ in Gaza. Gunmen paraded alleged spies through some of Gaza’s busiest public squares, shooting them dead in a bloody warning to locals about the cost of collaborating with Israel.”