KING: The world should be grieving over Canadian mosque shooting

[Jim Beard]

5. From the Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/01/31/suspect-canadian-mosque-shooting-expressed-right-wing-views-online

A suspect in custody for a deadly mosque shooting over the weekend in Quebec City, Canada, left a trail of right-wing extremist rants online and in social networks.

But Bissonnette was known to many activists in Quebec as a right-wing troll for the far-right anti-feminist and nationalist views he expressed online. There, Bissonnette supported French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen and President Donald Trump. Friends and fellow students say his interest in white wing extremism didn’t begin until March 2016, when Le Pen visited Quebec City.

According to one fellow student, Bissonnette made frequent comments on social media that expressed anti-Muslim sentiment and denigrated refugees and feminism. Bissonnette’s Facebook page has since been taken down.