She’s not insane. She’s intractable.A psychiatric assessment has found her perfectly mentally fit to stand trial.Our laws are not her laws. Her law is sharia law.She worships at the altar of Islamic State.And what this woman is alleged to have done — attack customers and staff at a Canadian Tire outlet last June 3, with a golf club and a large knife and a bow — she vows to attempt again.Speaking through an Arabic interpreter in Scarborough court on Wednesday morning — though occasionally in the proceeding she also spoke English, quite competently — Rehab Dughmosh made this declaration: “Tell her I will always be a supporter of the Islamic State until the last day of my life. If you allow me to go out and leave I will do exactly what I tried to do last time and failed.”Getting the 32-year-old woman to engage with the court has been like moving a mountain of stubbornness and defiance.Read more:Toronto woman charged with assault at Scarborough mallMental health assessment ordered for Toronto woman facing terror chargesToronto woman accused of terror-related assault again refuses to appear in courtOn two previous occasions, the Syrian-Canadian — and by the way, she wants her Canadian citizenship revoked — has refused to participate in what is now common video-link hearings from her current place of residence, the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ont. Third time ’round, Justice Kimberley Crosbie reluctantly authorized security personnel to bring Dughmosh into the video room at the jail, by whatever means necessary. Thus a “retraction team” somehow got her in front of the camera, face bare. That was in early September.Wednesday, the woman walked into the dock, in person, flanked by four court officers. She was clad in a tunic green tracksuit and hijab pulled across her face, revealing only the eyes.First words out of her mouth, via interpreter: “I want to stay seated.”It is rou ...
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