ISIS supporter who attacked at Canadian Tire store denied parole

The Parole Board of Canada ruled that Rehab Dughmosh continued to voice support for ISIS.

A Toronto woman who carried an out ISIS-inspired attack at a Canadian Tire store in 2017 has been denied parole and ordered to serve out the remainder of her sentence in prison.

A decision released Wednesday by the Parole Board of Canada said Rehab Dughmosh continued to “voice support for the ISIS ideology” and would likely kill or injure if released.

“You continue to align yourself with a known terrorist organization and have threatened to commit a terrorist act if you are released in Canada,” the parole board wrote.

The decision means the 36-year-old Syrian-born Canadian will not be let out of prison before her sentence ends in January 2022.

She declined to attend a scheduled parole hearing last Thursday.

After a failed attempt to join ISIS in Syria, Dughmosh attempted to carry out an attack in Toronto, but was stopped and there were no serious injuries.

“In June 2017, you attended a Canadian Tire store in the Scarborough area and assaulted strangers while armed with a knife and a golf club, indicating that you committed these offences in the name of ISIS,” the board wrote.

She was convicted of terrorism in 2019 and sentenced to seven years. The judge said a lower sentence was warranted because mental illness had “rendered her vulnerable to extremist beliefs.”