This can only be described as a disturbing new development in the "Global War on Terror":
Published reports have identified the trenchcoat-clad man who opened fire in a Montreal college Wednesday as 25-year-old Kimveer Gill, of Montreal...
"His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death," he wrote on his profile on vampirefreaks.com, an online hub of goth culture.
The blog paints a dark portrait of the 25-year-old man.
"He is not a people person. He has met a handfull (sic) of people in his life who are decent." But he writes that he finds the vast majority to be "worthless, no good, kniving, betraying lieing (sic), deceptive."
From which we can all draw the obvious conclusion -- Canada is now the new central front in the struggle against Islamogothivampirojihadireclusofarianism™.
If only he'd been wearing a turban, it would have been perfect.
ABOUT THAT NAME ... Commenter John suggests that the name "Kimveer Gill" is more likely to be Hindu or Sikh than Muslim. Or it might be totally bogus. A Google search on that name turns up, at the moment, exactly one hit, where you can see the name "Kimveer Gill" alongside other names of questionable authenticity such as "johanna jacobs, Roger Brüntezon, Rohan de los Mil Nombres, xx, Fernando Roiz, Rok Satler, Domagoj Gojak, Raphaël Bonte, rolando reider."
One gets the distinct impression that Kimveer Gill isn't quite the name on his birth certificate, but I'm sure that won't stop the conspiracy theorists. Mundane things like facts never have.
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I would suggest that with a name like Kimveer Gill, he's much more likely to be a Hindu or Sikh than a Muslim.
Of course, right-wingers know that they're all the same...
cc, you are quite the belletrist, a real ink slinger...
hilariously sad but true
-the trademark is a nice touch.
For what it's worth, he listed his heritage on his site as "Indian". But obviously the type of Indian that is fully immersed in his adopted culture of twistedly violent video games, disenfranchisement and disaffected suburban angst. His three guns were all registered in his name. Typical Quebec bureaucratic incompentence, sadly.
He was not a Sikh. His parents or grandparents origin has nothing to do with his actions. He was a maniacal, depressed, violent and self-absorbed individual with an obsession with Goth culture, heavy metal music, and dark clothing.
Yes, let's be clear about this. Whatever his cultural/religious origins, his present was very much a certain type of NORTH AMERICAN culture.
Yes, it's a culture with ugly and dangerous elements. But it's ours, all ours*, and the only way we will ever diffuse/de-fuse it is to recognize that fact, recognize that it's ours to deal with, and deal with it.
*Ours as North Americans, not particularly ours as leftists. This kind of complete misanthropic and nihilistic culture attracts people who identify with various points along the political scale, but in this case, it's not the political orientation that's the problem, it's the misanthropy and nihilism, along with no doubt other more specific problems with a psychological diagnosis.
It doesn't matter what religious beliefs his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents held, be it Islam, Sikhism, Christianity etc.
His profile indicates no affiliation to any set of religious beliefs unless Goth culture can be considered a religious belief system.
The Goth culture has its roots in the West - not in the Middle East or India.
I agree with the postings of some of the others here. The faith this guy may have been born into is certainly one that he followed, as can be seen by his actions.
He is an embarrassment to mankind, let alone any single faith.
What drove him to do what he did, only he will know. I just wish he'd survived, so that he could answer the families he's destroyed and be punished repeatedly for his actions.
My heart also goes out to his family, as they are left to suffer the punishment he was due. You may blame them, and maybe they could have done more - but the reality is, which parent is really likely to believe their child is capable of doing something like this? Even people that knew him have all expressed the same shock and disbelief as the family.
And for all the right-wingers, this is not the first time something like this has happened in North America - but it is the first time the culprit has been of east indian origin. The commanlity appears quite clearly to be cultural/environmental influences of where these people are raised, NOT where there forefathers are from.
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