‘Salad bar extremism’: Montreal gunman’s incel manifesto ‘picks and chooses different grievances’
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A manifesto left by the armed suspect who opened fire at a hotel on Monday and killed a Montreal police officer doesn’t explicitly mention ‘incel,’ but experts say the content is consistent with the ideology that’s rooted in extreme hatred of women.
Incel, which refers to “involuntary celibate,” has adherents online who are mostly heterosexual men who believe they are unfairly denied romantic and sexual relationships.
“There’s not one ideology. There are different versions of it,” said Stephanie Carvin, an associate professor of international relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.
“But the connecting thread is that society is unjust because some men are able to have loving relationships and others are (not).”
Carvin, a former national security analyst with the government, adds that incel is a recognized form of extremist violence and terrorism in Canada.
“The courts now recognize incel violence as terrorism,” she said, noting the case of Alek Minassian, who drove his van onto a crowded Toronto sidewalk in 2018, killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others.
He confessed that he was inspired by the incel movement and had sought to spark an uprising.
Incels believe the perceived unfairness is fixed by either removing themselves completely from society or — as was the case with the alleged gunman in Côte-des-Neiges this week — calling for revolutionary violence against the system to create a world system that they deem more just toward men, Carvin said.
“We’ve seen that to a certain extent (with) Marc Lépine in 1989, before we knew what this gender-based violence looked like or understood it properly,” she said, referring to the massacre of 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.
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