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The Death of a Soldier
Steyn On-line ^ | October 22, 2019 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/23/2019 5:28:04 PM PDT by Twotone

Today is not only the grey morning after the election the night before, but also the fifth anniversary of a terrible savage act in the heart of Canada's capital.

The photograph at right shows Corporal Nathan Cirillo of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (the Princess Louise's) on the last weekend of his life. Megan Underwood and her friend (standing next to the corporal) were visiting Ottawa from California and, passing the Cenotaph, asked if they could have their picture taken with the "very handsome guard".

Corporal Cirillo died a few days later - October 22nd 2014, five years ago today. A man who wore the uniform of his regiment with pride, he might have expected to stare death in the face in Afghanistan or some other thankless piece of barbarous sod. Instead, he was gunned down on Wellington Street by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

Zehaf-Bibeau was born in Quebec as Michael Joseph Hall and was a recent "revert" to Islam - as was Martin Couture-Rouleau, the killer of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent of the Royal Military College in St Jean-sur-Richelieu a couple of days earlier, and the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of South London. Yet, even by the standards of the booming new category of "recent Muslim converts", Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was a prime specimen. In a detail almost too absurd, the Ottawa jihadist turned out to be the son of Susan Bibeau, the Deputy Chairperson of the Immigration Division of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board. Her (now ex-)husband was a "Libyan businessman".

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TOPICS: History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; jihad; marksteyn; nathancirillo

1 posted on 10/23/2019 5:28:04 PM PDT by Twotone
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2 posted on 10/23/2019 5:36:53 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Twotone

Well written, worth reading.


3 posted on 10/23/2019 5:39:01 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Twotone

Thank God Vickers put a bullet through the Muzzie’s head.


4 posted on 10/23/2019 5:42:57 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Twotone
“Revert”. The Religion of Pieces has the audacity to claim that everyone is “born” moslem but some go astray...only to revert (and become a jihadi).
5 posted on 10/23/2019 5:43:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: kaehurowing

It’s about time the English soccer fan started treating these invaders like baby seals.


6 posted on 10/23/2019 5:49:17 PM PDT by Track9
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Marking


7 posted on 10/23/2019 8:22:49 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Twotone

Great article and picture

Thanks for posting...


8 posted on 10/23/2019 10:09:16 PM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - mui issue voter)
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