“Four men have been arrested after a memorial plaque was commemorating the École Politechnique massacre was vandalized.” These are the names of the four men: Ahmed Sido, Muhammed Nanaa, Abduallah Al-Mosuli, and Adnan Al Noumayri.

According to a CTV report on December 6 marking the thirtieth anniversary of the “worst mass shooting in Canadian history,” that massacre was “an attack on feminists.” Marc Lépine (birth-name Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi) murdered 14 women, 13 of whom were students, and injured 14 other people. He was the son of an Algerian, Rachid Gharbi, who was described as “abusive and contemptuous of women.”

Marc Lepine “twice applied for admission to the École Polytechnique, but lacked two required compulsory courses” and “long complained about women working in ‘non-traditional’ jobs.” The story had a significance that was ignored by media. Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor, retired psychotherapist, best-selling author, and “legendary feminist leader”, spells out that significance:

Please remember that, in 1989, Marc Lepine, who mass-murdered fourteen female engineering students in the Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal, also had a wife-beating Algerian father. This fact, which I found crucial, was completely ignored by the police and by all those who wrote about this tragedy. The police saw this as the isolated act of a madman…. He probably taught his son that women are chattel property who deserve to be beaten even when they are obedient—perhaps murdered when they are not. Perhaps Gharbi/Lepine scapegoated women for the considerable crimes of his father…. We certainly have violent fathers in the West. And yet, Arab, North African, and Muslim fathers have not, traditionally, been viewed as “sick” or treated as “criminals” if they routinely beat or rape their wives or cruelly tyrannize their children.

While the media was quick to discuss Gamil Gharbi’s hatred of women, his background and conditioning were ignored. Now to add insult to injury, Ahmed Sido, Muhammed Nanaa, Abduallah Al-Mosuli, and Adnan Al Noumayri have vandalized the memorial plague for the women Gharbi murdered.

“Four men arrested after Montreal massacre plaque vandalized,” 680 News, December 11, 2019: