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The Quebec City mosque shooting which occurred on the 29th of January 2017, is one of the six crimes cited in the 4918 Bill in «preventing interior terrorism». The bill has been submitted this month to the United States House of Representatives, reports the Canadian newspaper La presse.
The bill states that it is the first shooting committed in a North American mosque, recalling that the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has referred to it as «a terrorist attack».
The text also cites a shooting in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and another one that targeted a Jewish community center in Kansas, the assembly of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the assassination of an African-American in New York and the shooting in the church of Charleston. Statistics report that much more Americans were killed by white right extremist terrorists than by radical islamists.
«A joint note from the FBI and the Department of interior Security recently revealed that white supremacists organizations were responsible for 49 homicides and 29 attacks between 2000 and 2016 - more than any other extremist movement in the country,» declared Brad Schneider, Democratic Representative of Illinois and the represented the bill.
This proposal has required that the US government publish accurate data on «interior terrorism» annually and that local police officers be trained to better detect the signs of any potential threat.
For the record, Alexandre Bissonnette, the assailant who was behind the Mosque shooting in Canada faces 12 counts, including six linked to premeditated murder. His trial to take place in March the 26.
