Mississauga ON restaurant bombing: hate, terror, or ???

First the facts. Just a few hours ago, two men wearing hoodies [Quelle surprise! Ed.] burst into a busy restaurant in Mississauga ON and detonated an IED (improvised explosive device, aka bomb). 15 people were injured, three seriously. The perps fled the scene in a waiting car. The eatery is known as the Bombay Bhel.

Now Walt's interpretation. Local cops refuse to speculate about the motive for the bombing. Was it a hate crime? An act of terrorism? Or part of an extortion racket? If this happened in, say, Little Italy (every city has one), you'd pick (c) - extortion racket. But it happened in Mississauga, one of the largest cities in the Great No-longer-white North.

Mississausage is home to a "south Asian" population so large that folks of a paler complexion (read: white people) are in the minority. The south Asians include people of the Hindu, Sikh and Muslim "faith communities", some of whom take their heathen religions very seriously and are dead against [No more puns, please! Ed.] those who espouse other faiths. As the Kingston Trio sang in "The Merry Little Minuet", everybody hates everybody else.



Descriptions of the suspects are incomplete, since both had their faces covered. No cries of "Allahu akbar!" or "Khalistan zindabad!" have been reported... so far. But don't be surprised if -- when Inspector Knacker fails to catch the culprits -- reprisal bombings ensue. Lifetime pct .980.