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 Opposition MPs are chastising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his decision to take on Fox News over an inaccurate tweet about the Quebec City mosque shooter. 
 
 Saying the tweet “dishonoured the memory of the six victims,” Trudeau’s office on Tuesday asked Fox to retract or update the post, which described the alleged shooter as being of Moroccan origin. 
 
 Just before 8 p.m. Tuesday, Fox deleted the tweet and apologized. 
 
 On Wednesday, opposition MPs said the prime minister should have better things to do. 
 
 “We’ve got jobs leaving the country, we have had a terrible tragedy in Quebec City,” said Lisa Raitt, a Conservative MP and party leadership candidate. “So why do you pick fights with the American news media?” 
 
 Rhéal Fortin, interim leader of the Bloc Québécois, said Trudeau’s office should stop conducting “spontaneous, instant” diplomacy via Twitter. 
 
 “I want serious discussions that are conducted rigorously,” he said. 
 
 But Trudeau stood by the decision to complain to Fox. 
 
 “I think it’s important to emphasize what actually happened in Quebec City and think about lessons we need to learn from it,” he told reporters in Ottawa. 
 
 In the minutes after the shooting Sunday night, police arrested two men — a Moroccan-born Quebecer and a Quebec-born man. But at noon Monday, police announced the Moroccan-born man was actually a witness. The other man — Alexandre Bissonnette — has been charged with murder and attempted murder. 
 
 At 12:31 p.m. on Monday, Fox News tweeted: “Suspect in Quebec mosque terror attack was of Moroccan origin, reports show.” 
 
 Kate Purchase, Trudeau’s director of communications, wrote to Fox News, demanding that the tweet be taken down or corrected. 
 
 “Canada is an open, welcoming country that stands by its citizens,” Purchase said in her letter. 
 
 “We are a nation of millions of immigrants and refugees, of hundreds of cultures, languages, and religions bound by one, unwavering, unshakable belief: we are stronger not in spite of our differences, but because of them. 
 
 “These tweets by Fox News dishonour the memory of the six victims and their families by spreading misinformation, playing identity politics, and perpetuating fear and division within our communities.” 
 
 Purchase went on to note that “Muslims are predominantly the greatest victims of terrorist acts around the world. To paint terrorists with a broad brush that extends to all Muslims is not just ignorant — it is irresponsible. 
 
 “If we allow individuals and organizations to succeed by scaring people, we do not actually end up any safer. Fear does not make us safer. It makes us weaker. Ramping up fear and closing our borders is not a solution. It distracts from the real issues that affect people’s day-to-day life.” 
 
 In a statement sent to the National Post, Refet Kaplan, the managing director of FoxNews.com, said: “FoxNews.com initially corrected the misreported information with a tweet and an update to the story on Monday. The earlier tweets have now been deleted. We regret the error.” 
 
 Thank you @FoxNews for deleting the tweet. We appreciate it. — Kate Purchase (@katepurchase) February 1, 2017 
 
 The second man arrested on Sunday night spoke out after police released him. 
 
 Mohamed Belkhadir, a 29-year-old Moroccan-born engineering student, told reporters he was trying to help shooting victims when police mistook him for a suspect. 
 
 Belkhadir, who had called 911 after hearing 15 to 20 seconds of gunfire, said he fled when he saw someone with a firearm. He thought it was the shooter; in fact, it was a police officer. 
 
 He doesn’t hold it against police, saying he understands why he was arrested and that officers treated him well. 
 
 The Canadian Press contributed to this report 
 
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 twitter.com/andyriga ||||| QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called “a terrorist attack.” 
 
 Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. 
 
 Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette, a student at Université Laval, was set to appear again on Feb. 21. No charge was read in court and Bissonnette did not enter a plea. 
 
 “The charges laid correspond to the evidence available,” said Thomas Jacques, a representative of the prosecutor’s office, when asked why Bissonnette was not charged with terrorism-related offences. 
 
 Among the six men killed were a butcher, a university professor, a pharmacist and an accountant, according to police and Canadian media. 
 
 The government of Guinea said in a statement that two of its citizens were among those killed in the mosque attack. 
 
 Police declined to discuss possible motives for the shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec. 
 
 “They consider this a lone wolf situation,” a Canadian source familiar with the situation said. 
 
 In Washington, U.S. government security experts were leaning to the view that the gunman most likely was motivated by hatred for Muslims, a U.S. government source familiar with official reporting said. 
 
 Trudeau, who has made a point of welcoming refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, told parliament in Ottawa: “Make no mistake, this was a terrorist attack.” 
 
 “Last night this community experienced something that no community should ever have to know: Unspeakable cruelty and violence perpetrated on those who came together in friendship and in faith,” Trudeau said later at a vigil attended by hundreds who braved frigid temperatures in Quebec City. 
 
 He added a personal message to Canada’s 1 million Muslims: 
 
 “We stand with you. We love you and we support you and we will always defend and protect your right to gather together and pray today and every day,” Trudeau added. 
 
 Alexandre Bissonnette, a suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque, is seen in a Facebook posting. Facebook/Handout via REUTERS 
 
 The attack was out of character for Quebec City, a city of just over 500,000 which reported just two murders in all of 2015. Mass shootings are rare in Canada, where gun control laws are stricter than in the United States. 
 
 Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years. The face-covering, or niqab, became an issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election, especially in Quebec, where the majority of the population supported a ban on it at citizenship ceremonies. 
 
 In addition to the six killed, five people were critically injured and 12 were treated for minor injuries, a spokeswoman for the Quebec City University Hospital said. 
 
 Federal Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told reporters in Ottawa there was no change to “the national terrorism threat level” from medium because “there is no information known to the government of Canada that would lead to a change at this time.” 
 
 U.S. President Donald Trump called Trudeau to express his condolences “and offered to provide any assistance as needed,” said Trudeau spokesman Cameron Ahmad. 
 
 Over the weekend, Trudeau said Canada would welcome refugees, his response to an executive order by Trump on Friday to halt the U.S. refugee program and to temporarily bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. 
 
 Trump’s action, which the president said was “not about religion - this is about terror and keeping our country safe,” was widely condemned in the United States and abroad as targeting Muslims. 
 
 On Monday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that the Quebec shooting was “a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant, and why the president is taking steps to be proactive, rather than reactive, when it comes to our nation’s safety and security.” 
 
 FATHER OF FOUR KILLED 
 
 A father of four, the owner of a halal butcher near the mosque, was among those killed, said Pamela Sakinah El-hayet, a friend of one of the people at the mosque. 
 
 The mosque concierge was killed, as was Ahmed Youness, a 21-year-old student, El-hayet told Reuters. One of El-hayet’s friends, Youness’ roommate, was in the mosque at the time of the shooting. He was unharmed, she said, but in total shock. 
 
 A man of Moroccan descent who had also been arrested was now considered a witness, although his nationality was not immediately known, a Canadian source familiar with the situation said. 
 
 Ali Assafiri, a student at Université Laval, said he had been running late for the evening prayers at the mosque, near the university in the Quebec City area. When he arrived, the mosque had been transformed by police into a crime scene. 
 
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 “Everyone was in shock,” Assafiri said by phone. “It was chaos.” 
 
 Vigils were planned for Montreal and Quebec City, the provincial capital, as well as in Edmonton. There was an outpouring of support for the mosque on social media.
– Fox News removed a tweet about Sunday's attack on a Quebec City mosque after Justin Trudeau's office accused the network of dishonoring the victims. The offending tweet, which described the alleged gunman as being of Moroccan origin, was pulled Tuesday night, the Montreal Gazette reports. "Sadly, this misleading information has been left to stand on the Fox News Channel's Twitter account and continues to circulate online even now," a letter from the prime minister's office stated. "These tweets by Fox News dishonor the memory of the six victims and their families by spreading misinformation, playing identity politics, and perpetuating fear and division within our communities." The man of Moroccan origin detained after the shooting turned out to have been helping the victims, leaving 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a Quebec-born man who has been charged with six counts of murder, as the only suspect. He was known for making anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, and anti-feminist posts online, as well as trolling groups like refugee support organizations, but acquaintances tell the Gazette they saw no sign that he had become radicalized enough to launch a terrorist attack. The Globe and Mail reports that in the wake of the attack, politicians, columnists, and talk radio hosts in the province have promised to tone down anti-Islam rhetoric and work harder to draw a distinction between Islamic terrorists and ordinary Muslims.