Masked man with firebomb attacks Montreal Jewish school

CBC News reported Surveillance video recovered by Montreal police shows a masked man throwing a firebomb at the door of an orthodox Jewish school in an attack early Saturday. The attack damaged the front entrance of the Taldos Yakov Yosef school in Montreal's Outremont neighbourhood. (CBC) The attack damaged the front entrance of the Taldos Yakov Yosef school in Montreal's Outremont neighbourhood. (CBC) .... Although officials of Jewish groups disagree, police have been unwilling to declare the attack a hate crime. In the absence of graffiti or other other evidence, it is being treated as an unexplained case of arson.

And there certainly is no one willing to sugest it might have been a Muslim.

Even so, it has stirred memories of a firebomb attack that destroyed the library of Montreal's United Talmud Torah school in 2004. The library of the United Talmud Torah school in Montreal was destroyed by another firebomb attack, in 2004. (Canadian Press) The library of the United Talmud Torah school in Montreal was destroyed by another firebomb attack, in 2004. (Canadian Press)

Was it carried out by a Muslim?

A note left at the school said the fire was in retaliation for the Israeli army's killing of a leader of the Hamas militant group.

There is a good clue.

The following year, a 19-year-old man who worked part-time at Canadian Tire was sentenced to two years in prison for the attack. Police tracked the man down through evidence left at the scene, including long wooden matches, kerosene and four plastic fuel containers made exclusively for Canadian Tire.

What was his religion? Perhaps another clue might be had from the fact that his name was Sleiman Elmerhebi and his mother's name was Rouba Elmerhebi Fahd, even though his religion was not stated in that story either.