Canadian Parliament Attacker was Son of Libyan Muslim Jihadist
While Zehaf-Bibeau is still being referred to as a Muslim convert, it appears that he is the son of a mixed marriage
between a Canadian woman and a Libyan father.
He was a Muslim who was raised Western, but returned to his father’s religion.
Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau was born in 1982 and was the son of Bulgasem Zehaf, a Quebec businessman who appears to have fought in 2011 in Libya, and Susan Bibeau, the deputy chairperson of a division of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. The two were divorced in 1999.
The irony of that marriage is obvious. And its product is the story of the death of the West.
His father’s history offers a hint of what Mr. Bathurst was concerned about. In 2011, a Montrealer named “Belgasem Zahef” was quoted in a Washington Times dispatch from the front in Libya, where he had travelled to join the rebel fight. The man described being detained at the Zawiyah oil terminal, where he witnessed torture.
This story, like most mainstream media accounts, is already infested with the accounts of Bathurst, another defector to Islam, who claims that Zehaf was mentally ill. That may or may not be the case. It’s certainly a convenient excuse. Claiming that the devil is after you may be considered mental illness in Western circles, but not in Muslim ones where stoning the devil is part of the pilgrimage to Mecca.
More to the point, Zahef did not carry out an attack against the Canadian government because he was mentally ill. He did it because he followed the call of ISIS to Jihad. We might as well dismiss Hitler as mentally ill and the invasion of Poland as a mental breakdown.
There are few details on Zehaf Sr. or who he was aligned with, but considering that the Libyan Civil War was dominated by Islamist militias, it probably wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that this is a case of, like father, like son.
About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.
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