The picture above is of the funeral of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, with his comrades in arms and his mother.
The shooter’s mom still hasn’t connected the dots.
Via Sun News
The “horrified” mother of the man who killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo believes her son was “at odds with the world,” possibly “mentally unbalanced” because of drug abuse and acting out of “despair” when he stormed Parliament Hill.
In a lengthy statement to Postmedia News, Susan Bibeau says she hopes to one day be able to mourn her son’s death despite the guilt and shame she feels over his actions.[…]
Bibeau said she lost touch with the 32-year-old when he left for Vancouver five years ago.
He was in touch with her again recently but only because his religion “dictated” he “be good to his parents.”
Bibeau said when her conversations with her son were “one-sided” — he talked about religion, she listened.
She said Michael told her over lunch recently that he planned to go to Saudi Arabia — not Syria as the RCMP have claimed — to study the Qur’an, believing he’d be happier in an Islamic country where people “share his beliefs.”
But he was having trouble getting a passport.
Bibeau said her son travelled to Ottawa, where she lives and works as a senior official with the Immigration and Refugee Board, hoping to rectify the passport problem.[…]
Taking his own life would have gone against the teachings of Islam, so she believes Michael decided instead to go on the rampage cost him and Cirillo their lives.
HT JettieG