‘Salad bar extremism’ has come to Canada, intelligence report says
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Edmonton city hall attack was part of trend of extremist violence fuelled by mix of motives.
A new kind of violence known as “salad bar extremism” has come to Canada, warns an internal government report obtained by Global News.
The term refers to attacks fuelled by a mix of views rather than a coherent ideology, said the report, which cited the recent Edmonton city hall shooting.
“While some extremists are assessed to have a primary motivation, others are influenced by a combination of beliefs,” said the Strategic Threat Assessment.
“This phenomenon is occurring in Canada,” according to the June 4, 2024, report by the government’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC).
Also called composite extremism, it is “driven by a myriad of messaging within mainstream social discourse as well as extremist propaganda that is internalized by an individual,” it said.
“Variations of this phenomena have been referred to as composite violent extremism, salad bar extremism, or mixed, unstable, or unclear (MUU) extremism,” the ITAC report said.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service released a redacted version of the document to Global News under the Access to Information Act.
The report partly focused on a Jan. 23 attack at Edmonton city hall. Armed with an SKS-style rifle, a gunman fired shots and lobbed incendiary devices inside the building.
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