With the “is Canada next?” debate raging as a result of the attacks on London, fewCanadians seem aware that if we are, it won’t be the first time that a calculated attack with mass casualties has been perpetrated by an individual who viewed his victims through a lens shaped by Islamic fundamentalism.
His name was Gamil Rodrigue Gharbi.
On Dec. 6, 1989 he shot 14 female engineering students at Ecole Polytechnique, and injured 15 others.
Tch tch, Kate. We’re not supposed to notice that ‘Mr. Lepine’ was an Islamic fundamentalist.
Holy crap, I had no idea! But that was a one-man show. I still wonder if a committed, targeted attack by terrorists is still to come. I hope not.
For shame, Kate! Lepine was just some misogynistic nutbar! It was about hating women, not hating women because he was a Muslim.
Clearly you have strayed from the true Liberal faith. No more free health care for you.
Here is the end result:
The Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ two billion dollar website:
http://www.cfc-ccaf.gc.ca/
The Firearms Centre.
The Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$2,000,000,000.00 and counting.
Do ya think he got his 72 virgins?
I think this was a little different. Lepine may have had his views shaped by an extreme form of Islam, but what he did was not for Alah. he just went crazy.
Here’s the thing about mental illness, it doesn’t make most people into murderers, it just removes the inhibitions from those who are already inclined in that direction.
I don’t think he was mentally ill, he was just a plane mental psyhco. Much the same as that guy they just arrested in the US wiith that little girl, can’t remember his name. No amount of rehab would have cured him.
The point I was getting at – with a father who (according to the report) came to Canada with old world ideas intact, it wasn’t much of a stretch for Gharbi to blame women for his own shortfalls.
The larger point I was trying to make was to remind readers of the absolute whitewash that this aspect of the story recieved – in a logical world, one would have thought it would have been given equal consideration when it came to exploring the ways to “prevent tragedies of this kind” in the future, or some such drivel as we have come to expect.
Rob at 07:37 PM,
No, he didn’t get 72 virgins, just 14.
(I’m not gonna burn for that, am I?)
Bacardi Breezer – “(I’m not gonna burn for that, am I?)”
Why? , did you rip him off intentionally? .. ..
ya left it wide open… 😉
The Death of a Muslim Woman: “The Whore Lived Like a German …
In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western …
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Marc Lepine’s Sturm-Ruger Mini 14 was legally owned by him. The Mini 14 was originally designed for the U.S. Military, but they chose the Colt instead. The Mini 14 is still available for purchase at gun dealers in Quebec. (The AK47 was banned under our ‘gun laws’) Both the AK and the Mini 14 are semi-automatic rifles- their main difference is that .223 Remington ammunition is available anywhere, while the 7.62 round for the AK is not manufactured in North America. Semi-automatic AKs that were legally bought before the ban, can still be owned legally under a ‘grandfather’ clause.
A Russian, living here in Forest Hill, Toronto, had two AKs and two pistols legally registered in his wife’s name, (apparently the laws can be ‘bent’ if you have enough money).
It is the ultimate irony that Gharbi was, if you will, the anti-poster-child for one of feminists’ most successful “Violence Against Women” campaign… I wonder how many of these icons of tolerant inclusive multiculturalism would have felt conflicted had they known of his antecedents?
Lysianne Gagnon wrote an article in the Globe several years ago referring to the background of the ‘real’ Marc Gharbi-Lepine.
If my memory is correct, she wrote about it prior to 9/11.
It might be interesting to read any of the reaction to her column, if there were any.
“in a logical world, one would have thought it would have been given equal consideration when it came to exploring the ways to “prevent tragedies of this kind” in the future”
In a logical world Judy Rebick would be Rush Limbaugh’s love slave. Just because.
“Lepine” was actually an Islamofascist? Bloody SURPRISE for me! Then again, of course, the MSM refuses to speak the truth about Islam so that the people can think for themselves on the issue. The Canuckistan Supreme Soviet obviously somehow has the power to prevent the MSM from providing some true facts.
The truth would also inconvenience the leftist unwashed masses as it would force them to deal with demands from people like me and you as to why they don’t call for understanding the fecking maggot who murdered fourteen innocent women. Why should they say we should “understand” Al-Qaeda and the occupants of the Disputed Territories (Gaza/West Bank) when they don’t say it about “Lepine”?
History’s lesson is that you first defeat, then understand. Retaliation must be automatic. Second-guessing will embolden the enemy! After all, if the enemy wanted understanding, they would’ve politely requested meetings for this purpose. Perhaps make agreements, treaties, etc. They choose that or choose war and must accept the consequences. Without consequences, they’ll repeat and get worse. Much like after each time the Libs get reelected, isn’t it?
Whoa Stephen.. I think Islamofascist is a bit strong in his case. I wasn’t implying he was aligned with any groups.
Amazing that the murderer who inspired the “Take Back the Night” campaign to stop violence against women was a chip off the old Muslim Fundamentalist block. But hey, connecting the dots is such a childish game…it couldn’t possibly be that a certain culture sanctions male violence against women. It must be – ALL MEN HURT WOMEN!!!
Damn. I was not very old, but I remember that, and I was never aware that that he was a muslim. I guess the lens the MSM looks through was the same back then…
The biggest disservice the MSM did (propped up, I’m sure, by radical feminists), was to encourage the feeling that all men are rabid beasts who can just flip out and turn their guns on women at any time. If people had known the background of Gharbi it may have put everything into a more factual perspective.
Now, our little town has ‘take back the night’ demonstrations where the whole polytechnique episode is remembered and hashed over and over in our little newspaper and the men in the town are all labelled as potential murderers and woman-haters.
Thanks for posting this Kate. The greatest victim of the Lepine/Gharbi massacre was the truth. Special interests (gender Marxists/hoplophobes/statist paranoids) ran with the ensuing hyteria and the Media helped them create a myth. Let’s not forget the MSM is always the silent partner in all these abominations of the truth. It is ironic that Canada’s failed billion dollar duck gun/hunter registry was predicated on a lie. It was not the potential misogyny of angry white males (politically scape goating your average duck hunter) that was at play that day in Montreal….it was the inbred misogyny of Gharbi’s Father and his displyed islamic culture misogyny whic imprinted on young Gamil….his father was a firm beliver in wife beating when insubordination to the patriach was shown…Islamic cultural subordination of females must be preserved in one’s family if the boys are to turn out “right” …..but that would have burst the propagated utopian myth of the angry white male who the left wing fringe was lobbying the oppotunist Liberals to repress…..it would also explode the multi-cult myth that forein cultures are all pure and evolved that only western culture must be changed.
We must remember to not let Gharbis tale all the blame for the hyterical political fall out in the wake of the massacre. We must also thank the MSM for repropagating the myth which has put Canadians 1.4 billion dollars out of pocket for a failed bureaucratic solution to a mythical problem. Keep this in mind as Frasier does her second audit of the regitry system meant to repress Sask. duck hunters for the crimes of an Islamic misogynist….BTW the gun Gaharbi used is still legally available for sale in Canada and he obtained it with a firearms permit issued by the Montreal police with the very same process that is in place today….If Gamil Gharbi wanted to buy a ruger mini today he would pass the same bureaucratic requirements as he did then and nothing would change. He had nothing on his record to prevent a gun permit from being issued to him.
Thinking along similar lines, Toronto city councillor Jack Layton co-founded the White Ribbon Movement in 1991 to remember the victims of the massacre and protest against violence against women. “Until Montr�al, most of the discussion was introspective,” Layton recalled in 1999. “Then the massacre happened, and it got us off our butts. My head exploded that year. ‘What must it be like for women?’ I thought. It was time to speak out and own up to this behaviour.” “Eight years later,” writes Hurst, “the cause has spread to a dozen countries around the world. Its comprehensive curriculum on gender violence — taught at public, junior high and senior high school levels — is used in 100 schools across Canada, 1,000 in the U.S.” The movement has also attracted criticism from those who believe it makes unwarranted generalizations about the attitudes and behaviour of men (see Jones, “Why I Won’t Wear A White Ribbon”).
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Layton: “My head exploded that year.”
Humpty Dumpty fell, too. Never together again could “they” put Jacky together again.
I’m from Montreal and remember that night very well. Canada suspends its lenses of reality to engage in parochial and delusional ideas of grandeur. We are fond of pointing out the puss in the American character but fail to see ours. For example, a Canadian will harp about American crime rates yet our list of Canadian Made Serial KIllers is quite long for a pacifist nation. Canadians bury their heads in the hard unforgiving rock of the Canadian Shield when it comes to terrorism. They believe, through their own lenses, that because we naively view ourselves as peacekeepers and have a docile foreign policy independent of America’s, the big bad loony suicide bomber won’t hurt us. We have misdiagnosed the nature of the enemy based on flawed assumptions.
CBC had the good sense to let the BBC run on it’s all news station post-bombing. Good stuff coming from some of the guests, including a bin Laden expert who says this is entirely about religion, and to try to paint it any other way is deliberately misleading. Canada refuses to boot out those known associates of Mr. bin Laden’s, allows various groups to raise funds here, and will not agree to allow for a more coordinated security system with the US. Now, reallly, why would they want to hurt us when it’s in their best interests to continue to use Canadian tax dollars to fund jihads?
Actually, dave, 7.62x39mm ammunition IS made in North America (by Remington and Federal, among others), and it is commonly available as surplus. This points out the fallacy of “good gun – bad gun” that the Lieberals and the hoplophobes continue to try to play; essentially, they’re arguing that a “good gun” can’t be used to kill someone just as dead as a “bad gun” can be, but their definition of what constitutes a “good gun” or a “bad gun” comes down to “Oooh, that one looks mean! On Rambo XXIIIIV last night, he used something that looks just like that to blow up cars and shoot down the evil overlord’s space station, and we obviously can’t trust the ordinary Canadian peon (they’re such children, you know) with something that might be mis-used like that.” Can a Ruger Mini-14 (a currently non-restricted gas-operated semi-automatic rifle in .223 Remington calibre) somehow kill someone any more or less dead than a Colt AR-15 (a currently-restricted gas-operated semi-automatic rifle in .223 Remington calibre) or an Armalite AR-180 (a currently prohibited gas-operated semi-automatic rifle in .223 remington calibre)? Those Canadians that DO own currently-prohibited AK variants aren’t even allowed to take them to a range to shoot them any longer, lest the evil mind-control rays that they emit somehow take over their owner’s psyche, and cause that owner to commit a crime on the way to or from the range.
Yemeni women campaign for equal blood money (Islam’s concept of equal rights — amongst savages)
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gulfnews ^ | 9 July 2005 | Nasser Arrabyee
Sanaa: Yemeni women, supported by moderate religious scholars and human rights activists, are campaigning against a draft law that stipulates that blood-money of women be half that of men. The draft law is currently being discussed in the House of Representatives. However, many well-known and respected Islamic scholars from Yemen and abroad disagree and say that blood money of a woman must be equal to that of a man. Several other moderate scholars also have reservations against the draft law, but prefer not to declare their positions because of fears that they would antagonise the hardliners These scholars say the..
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A wee bit of clarification to “dave” who seems comfused as to the history and functional technology of the Ruger Mini and self loading gass operated repeaters. :
First The Ruger 14 was NEVER considered as a military arm for the US. The Ruger arm is a civilian downsized version of the M14 7X69 US battle rifle. The M14 design was used in Korea and Nam and still is an issued arm to the Navey and militia.
Unlike the AK47 or M14, the Ruger mini is NOT a select fire arm which is capable of sustained automatic fire.
The M14 and AK select fire autos were made “restricted” firearms for owners and ythen banned for import into Canada because of the select fire capability. The Ruger does not have this full auto capability and cannot be altered to make it so.
As a side note; I have owned 2 Ruger minis along with a legal semi auto match grade M14 for over 25 years and not once have I experienced the hoplophobic mythalogical phenomena of evil death rays eminating from these fine civilian firearms which are rumored to turn an average owner into a raving Gamil Gharbi type…..my objective observation and first hand knowledge lead me to t conclude that the “evil” must come from somewhere other than the gun itself or it’s average normal operator…..possibly the media and minds of hoplophobes.
Kate, of course you didn’t imply that “Lepine” was an Islamofascist. Sorry if anyone had interpreted it as such. It’s just a word that popped into my mind and I used. I guess I’m still in a pissy mood due to the murders in London the other day. Guess sometimes I like to throw around strong words like that to get back at the moonbats who are always using strong, unwarranted words. I believe we should fight back with an equal but not way too excessive ferocity against what the left says about those who dare to dissent.
Long story short, I’m not perfect, but then again, nobody is.
Anyway, it’s not like the left is going to defend HIM, right?
This is a stunning post – and based on the comments I’m not the only one who didn’t know about the muslim connection. I knew about the abusive father – I knew he blamed women for everything that ever went wrong in his life. But I don’t ever remember hearing the Islam connection before. Not surprising that he would have gravitated to that religion – this is a religion that torments and abuses women all in the name of family and god! I still think he was just a mysoginist and a failure but he had to leave a mark.
The real offence is that every year the government trots out those 14 weeping mothers to justify the gun registry knowing full well that Marc Lepine dispite new legislation and the gun registry would still have been able to acquire guns. (not necessarily the particular guns he used but guns nonetheless) He had no criminal record or history of mental illness when he got those guns.
I think we need a country and western song that can be played on the radio whenever the moonbat manhating crowd stages one of their Take Back The Night marches. Something like, “Take Back The Night, And Stick It Where The Sun Don’t Shine”…
24 Candians died on 9/11. Does that count?
Only 5 months to go ’till the aniversary of his “achievement”!!!
Of course the MSM will block lots of time to commemmorate this “milestone” LOL..(registry not withstanding.)
Sad to say, but a Quebec free spirited girl could have saved us a lot of grief. I mean, what wasn’t there to like about this guy that a couple gulps of vodka and some deep “frenching” couldn’t cure. This is Quebec after all, where anything goes, or so they would have us believe.
Poor guy couldn’t get any in Gommorrah either I guess! Pity.
and while i have a full head of steam……..something from MY ARCHIVES…letters to the editor:
RE: Ecole Polytechnique:
Thanks go to the National Media for their yearly reminder, that nothing is more
dangerous than a sexually frustrated young male college student(circa 1989).
In wide open Montreal, of all places, surely one of the female students could
have swallowed an extra shot of vodka sometime; maybe she would have found
something to like about this guy. He was smart enough to get to college. It’s
not like he was a Kennedy,annointed with lawyer and a free pass!
As it was, the college she-males (I won’t use the term “men”) you know the
social types, who the ladies all preen and fussed over, did nothing to help out
at all. They just could not get involved. Running around the corner and hiding,
guarding their precious “jewels”. Not a creative thought entered their capable
(?) minds. Cowering in their safe ratholes, while 14 women were gunned down,
you’d think the idea would pop up, that there was a crisis.
Please keep
reminding us of THAT anniversary!
Reminds me of generaissimo Romeo Dallaire, of Ruwanda fame. Another ‘ti gar who
was frustrated in a situation, where he couldn’t do anything. Couldn’t leave his
cubicle to intervene and possibly jeopardise that nice pension soon to come.THAT
he surely would regret!
Remember, we disbanded the Airborn Regiment for playing too rough……see how
this works?
Meanwhile again on the other side of the walls, scores of people are
slaughtered,screaming. But we have justification, and our concience is clear.
This passes as the actions of a hero. One hundred percent pain averse, thus
risk-free. That spells success in our society.
You know something? There are times where you just got to do it, hang the
consequences. But if no one bucks the trend, the status quo, society suffers and
is weakened.
We desperately need risk-takers, doing what to them is right. History will judge
them fairly even if public opinion at the time dissapproves. Churchill,
MacArthur, and Sir John A. made their stands,and we benefited.
Standing still is a recourse today left to the timid; otherwise known as the
forgettable.
The unremarkable. History knows not their names. Nor actions,for
they had none.Thank god the media never fails to remind us of the names of these
lightweights….
heros..light
We have become used to the notion that heros are only found on cable tv. Whos
fault is this? tsk..tsk
geeze..did I really say that?
Eastern Paul mentioned the Airborne Regiment disbandment. I blogged about that back at university in ’95!
I get the feeling of REDUX!