Two responses to the attack on Parliament today by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who recently converted to islam and attacked on the day Canada granted honorary citizenship to Malala Yousafzai, the young girl who herself survived a Taliban assassination attempt.
The Canadians take one view: Canada’s government is tracking today’s violence as a terrorist incident, and will reportedly continue treating it as such until evidence suggesting that it is not terrorism comes to light.
Obama is more nuanced, naturally: “It’s just too soon to draw any conclusions”. Could be another one of those mohammedan workplace violence cases, after all, like Dr. Hassan out at Fort Hood.