Salwan Momika was an Iraqi refugee of Christian background who had settled in Sweden. Through 2023 he staged a series of public demonstrations criticising Islam. He said plainly that this political religion is incompatible with democracy and human rights.
On 29 January 2025 he was shot several times in the head near Stockholm, live on TikTok.
The man wanted for the killing is Bashar Zakkour, a 24-year-old Syrian who arrived in Sweden with the migration waves of 2015. Still actively sought by Interpol, he is reported to have made his way back to Syria after the assassination, with no apparent difficulty.
What the case says
What happened is not obscure. Momika denounced a violence. That violence caught up with him. And the man wanted for the murder was able, according to public reporting, to leave the country after the crime.
That is the reality many still refuse to see: behind the status of "refugee" there sometimes stands an enemy who acts, then leaves. The criticism was not merely contested in the press. It was punished in the street.
Why this matters in Quebec
I will be told that this happened elsewhere. That is precisely the sort of sentence people say while it is still too early — and stop saying once it is too late. The same mechanisms, the same taboos, the same words deployed to prevent anyone naming Islamisation and mass migration.
Quebec is not immune. It is merely one chapter behind, if we leave Ottawa, the courts and respectable opinion to write what comes next.
Independent journalism does not exist to reassure. It exists to connect the facts — even when they inconvenience a respectable opinion that prefers discreet deaths to frank debate.
Let us bring back common sense.