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James Ozark at A Western Heart takes a closer look at a 1989 School Shooting:
More Wonders of Multiculturalism. . .
And the media, those intransigent guardians of all we should think and say, wonder why we�re not listening anymore. . .
Misogyny Day
I recall with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach the horrific murder in 1989 of 14 female students in a classroom on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, an engineering school of the Universite de Montreal. A deranged young man named Marc Lepine stormed the classroom with a hunting rifle, ordered the men out and then systematically began killing the remaining female students while loudly proclaiming his hatred for women, especially Quebecoise women.

. . .each anniversary of the massacre is marked in Canada with commemorations by womens' groups and the CBC about the tragedy of male violence against women and how modern man comes with a little part of Marc Lepine in every version.
And the money quote:
. . .it appears that a very important fact about Marc Lepine was left out of the reports.

Like, for example, his name wasn't "Marc Lepine" at all.

His name, as the Great Mark Steyn points out today in a column in MacLean's, was in fact "Gamil Gharbi." It turns out that "Marc" adopted the name in an attempt to distance himself from his Algerian immigrant Muslim father, though "Marc" never bothered to have it legally changed.

By identifying "Marc" with a common Quebecois name the ideologues were able to turn "Lepine's" killing into a parable about Western man's horrific violence against women.

By identifying Gamil Gharbi as the killer, all you have is yet another sad example of Islam's disfunctional and completely over-the-top misogyny.

But that isn't much of a story, now is it?
James provides the link to source material.

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