21 Years of Misunderstanding the Massacre

Twenty-one years ago today, a whackjob named Marc Lepine (birth name: Gamil Gharbi), the son of a brutal, Algerian-Arab misogynist who for years had abused both him and his helpless mother, opened fire on a group of women engineering students at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, killing 14. Ever since, the Montreal Massacre, as it's called, has been commemorated as a symbol of men's (all men's) inherent brutally toward women (all women) instead of what it was, a one-of instance of a mentally unhinged young Arab, who had been brewed and stewed in Arab cultural perceptions of women and their proper place in society, acting out in a horribly violent way.