Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. The Islamic community has long had to deal with a constant litany of hate crimes being directed towards them. It doesn't matter if it's the 2017

Finsbury Park attack in England, the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand,

or any of the countless other incidents which were inflicted

upon Muslims in the wake of 9-11 in the US.

Accepting that some people would rather see you dead than alive has become a sad daily reality for those who follow the faith.

Canada had been relatively free of major Islamophobic attacks, but in 2021 that would all change when a young man was driven by hatred to carry out the unthinkable.

This is monsters. And I'm And the To the outside world, Nathaniel Veltman seemed like a pretty average 20 year old.

Born on December 20, 2000, the son of middle class parents, Mark Veldman, and Alicia Bissette,

not only had a steady job working at an egg packing factory at the time of his arrest,

but he also kept his own apartment in the Covent Marketplace area of downtown London, Ontario.

As for his personal interests, while those varied, the majority of his time was devoted to his Christian faith. a faith he'd gotten from his parents, both of whom were devout and what many would refer to as fundamentalist.

Their beliefs were on the more extreme side and they donated to a variety of right-wing causes during

Nathaniel's youth including but not limited to anti-abortion groups and organizations that

advocated for a number of different socially conservative policies.

Obviously then, that made a big effect on Nathaniel in terms of shaping both his own personality and sense of morality.

It would actually lead him to go several steps. personality and sense of morality.

It would actually lead him to go several steps further than his parents when at the age of 13

he gave serious consideration to killing an abortion doctor as he'd come to believe that doctor was acting against the will of God.

Thankfully though, he came to his senses and would not go ahead with any of his plans.

Instead, he pushed the thoughts to the back of his Ontario home. Yes, Nathaniel, along with not only his four younger siblings, but also his twin sister Alicia,

were all homeschooled for the majority of their youth.

With that seeing them get a narrower understanding of the world than most of their Not that such an education appeared to do the boy any harm during his younger days as far as the outside world was concerned as, despite his internal feelings about certain issues and people, by all accounts he was a very happy child, someone who had a particular love of animals.

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