Iafolla: We do know if the Toronto attack is terrorism – it is

This commentary is a rebuttal to Phil Gurski’s op-ed “Why the Toronto attack can’t be called terrorism – yet.”
Phil Gurski calls for an abundance of caution and for prudence in deciding whether Monday’s van attack in Toronto is terrorism.
Certainly, when considering whether an act is terrorism we should await all the facts, but what Gurski is missing is that terrorism isn’t (just) defined by the ideology that motivates it – it is also defined by th