Did Nabil Huruy kill in the name of Allah?

Tarek Fatah
It was early morning on the anniversary of 9/11 on September 11,
2013 when Toronto Police Constable Alexi Prodanos, working the
midnight shift, got a call at 6:00 A.M. about a break and entry at the
Islamic Foundation of Toronto, popularly known as the Nugget Mosque
in Scarborough.
Const. Prodanos arrived on the scene, and spoke to the caretaker. He
points to a young man walking away on Nugget Ave. carrying some
bags. The police officer detained the suspect.
He is 23-year-old Nabil Huruy, who two days later will commit a horrific
murder repeatedly stabbing in the face and head with a kitchen knife
Dominic Parker, a Markham firefighter who also served with the 48th
Highlanders1, a reserve unit of the Canadian military in Toronto.
Const. Prodoanos confiscated the clothing and pair of shoes that Huruy
said he took from the donation box in the mosque, and releases him
with a warning not to trespass.
Later, at the preliminary hearing on a first-degree murder charge,
Const. Prodanos would testify that when he detained Huruy, the young
man started talking about Allah, etc.2
The mosque incident is not Huruys only contact with police on that
9/11 anniversary.
At 3:07 p.m., OPP Const. Brian Bailey receives a radio call saying
somebody is standing on the Morningside Bridge overlooking Highway
401. Bailey spots Huruy wearing a metal ring around his neck, which
turns out to be from a traffic sign. Huruy tells police he wanted a piece
of the highway because it was the Highway of Heroes, travelled by
funeral convoys of Canadian Forces personnel killed fighting the
Taliban in Afghanistan, from CFB Trenton to the coroner's office in
Toronto.3
1

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/16/markham-firefighter-dominic-parker-attacked-on-danforth

Toronto Police Constable Alexi Prodanos testified on the third day of a three-day preliminary hearing,
on March 12, 2014, at the Superior Court of Justice courthouse at 361 University Avenue. The
preliminary hearing went from March 10 to March 12, 2014. NOTE: I was there in court and have
another witness who heard the same testimony.
3

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/05/13/court_orders_mental_health_assessment_of_man_wh
o_murdered_markham_firefighter.html

An ambulance takes Huruy to Centenary Hospital where he is

examined briefly and released. He is never taken into custody.
Two days later, on the night of September 13, 2013, Huruy heaeds to
Rotana Caf in Torontos Danforth and Coxwell area where he ran into
Dominic Parker playing cards with other caf patrons.
Just after midnight, Huruy got up and attacked the off-duty firefighter,
straddling him and stabbing him repeatedly, the final blow driving the
knife blade all the way into Parkers left jaw, between the ear and chin.
Two days later Parker died in hospital and Huruy was charged with firstdegree murder.4
Earlier this month, Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer found Huruy
not criminally responsible in the stabbing death of the firefighter cum
reserve soldier.5
In his ruling, Nordheimer said experts concluded that Huruy likely
suffers from schizophrenia and did not know his actions were morally
wrong.6
One question left unspoken and unaddressed is the role religion might
have played in the actions or schizophrenia of Nabil Huruy.
Never in the court proceedings did anybody say that the events began
on the anniversary of the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks against the United
States. Evidence that Huruy was talking about Allah, etc. was never
referred to again. Instead of Highway of Heroes, police witnesses
exclusively used the term Highway 401. At no point in the
proceedings was Parkers status as a reserve soldier mentioned.
As the 2015 draws to a close, the number of terrorist killings this year7
has reached 378, meaning there was an average of just over one
terrorist attack every day. Hundreds have died across the globe and
invariably the killers are Muslim, claiming to kill in the name of Islam
and for obtaining the pleasure of Allah.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/19/markham-firefighters-murder-accused-remanded-in-custody

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/18/accused-in-knife-attack-smiles-in-court

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/18/accused-in-knife-attack-smiles-in-court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_2015

Was Saudi-born8 Nabil Huruy one of the many killers motivated by a

jihadi understanding of Islam? We will never know. Perhaps we dont
want to.

Huruys Saudi birth is mentioned in this one story in the Toronto Sun. Elsewhere he
is referred to as Eritrean. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/16/judge-orders-psychiatricassessment-for-admitted-killer