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Marc Lepine = Gamil Gharbi

December 6, 1989, was a sad and tragic day in the history of Canadian higher education. That day, on a cold late afternoon, a young man called Marc Lepine suddenly irrupted at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle. As soon as he entered into a classroom, he separated the women from the men, lined the women along the wall, and then killed them one by one. In addition to killing 14 female engineering students, he injured eight other women, and also four men who tried to stop him. Then, he killed himself. That horrible episode is remembered in history as the Montreal Massacre.

Marc Lepine’s father Liess Gharbi was an Algerian immigrant, a Muslim Extremist  who taught his boy how to hate women. Not that he particularly cared about his son, whom he considered little more than a nuisance. People were generally shocked how Liess behaved towards his wife and children — not only the wife beatings, but also little things such as locking Marc and his sister in their bedroom (complete with portapotty), in the name of preserving “peace and quiet” of the household. It’s those little things that count.

The TDSB is promoting a form of  gender apartheid by allowing radical Islam into the public school system.  The Globe and Mail recently wrote, “Muslim girls who wish to take part must sit behind the boys, while girls who are menstruating must sit at the very back. While this is the custom at Friday prayers in mosques, the segregation of girls in a public space violates gender-equality norms that are at the heart of Canada’s institutions. Why shouldn’t girls be up front and centre? And why should classmates know when young girls of 13 are menstruating?”(From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 7:30PM EST)

December 6th is the National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence Against Women.

Please join JDL and the Multi Faith Coalition,  to mourn the 14 women murdered because of their gender at l’Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. At 6pm at Philosopher’s Walk, we remember and tell the stories of those women and other women in Islamic Countries who  suffer torture and can no longer speak for themselves.  And send a loud message to the TDSB to stop the practice of Gender Apartheid.

Bring signs and candles.

December 6 Candlelight Vigil takes place at Philosopher’s Walk, which is located between the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium and Arena, near the major intersection of Bloor Street, Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road. The site can be accessed from multiple entry points:

• The South side of Bloor Street West, just west of the Royal Ontario Museum entrance.
• The West side of Queen’s Park Crescent, near the Museum subway station exit.
• The North side of Hoskin Avenue, just west of Queen’s Park Crescent.

The site is readily accessible via the TTC, as it is within a 5-minute walk of the Museum (Yonge-University-Spadina line) and St. George (Bloor and Yonge-University-Spadina line) subway stations.

Parking near the site is limited, however, there is a municipal parking lot at the Hotel Intercontinental, which is located at 9 Bedford Road (across from St. George Subway station).

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The Canadian Hindu Advocacy, Jewish Defence League of Canada, Costa Christian Mission, and international Christian Voice would like to express our communities’ disgust with the surge in domestic violence and ‘honour killings’ afflicting Canada’s Islamic community.

On December 6th, the National Day of Action on Violence against Women, we will honour female victims of violence by protesting against the TDSB for permitting Islamic prayers and gender apartheid at Valley Park Middle School. We will hold this protest at Philosopher’s Walk (University of Toronto) to coincide with the location of the the White Ribbon Memorial.

We will be mourning the deaths in Montreal of women gunned down by Gamil Gharbi (otherwise known as Mark Lepine), whose Muslim father was abusive and contemptuous of women.

Our multi faith protest will coincide will take place Tuesday December 6th at 6pm.  Location details below.

Islamic fundamentalism in Canada is driving hatred and oppression of women and children. The TDSB decision to permit gender apartheid, with Islamic segregated prayers at Valley Park Middle School, is an example of misogynistic fundamentalism infiltrating secular institutions.

Ron Banerjee, Canadian Hindu Advocacy 416-857-3537
Meir Weinstein, Jewish Defence League of Canada 416-666-8746 
Peter Bhatti, International Christian Voice 416-727-1260 
Tony Costa, Costa Christian Mission 416-836-3650

December 6 Candlelight Vigil takes place at Philosopher’s Walk, which is located between the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium and Arena, near the major intersection of Bloor Street, Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road. The site can be accessed from multiple entry points:

The South side of Bloor Street West, just west of the Royal Ontario Museum entrance.

The West side of Queen’s Park Crescent, near the Museum subway station exit.

The North side of Hoskin Avenue, just west of Queen’s Park Crescent.

The site is readily accessible via the TTC, as it is within a 5-minute walk of the Museum (Yonge-University-Spadina line) and St. George (Bloor and Yonge-University-Spadina line) subway stations.

Parking near the site is limited, however, there is a municipal parking lot at the Hotel Intercontinental, which is located at 9 Bedford Road (across from St. George Subway station).