The Islamist Martyr from Alberta

"My 21-year-old son Zachareah was killed. I'm not able to talk now ... I'm processing."

"...Prayers pls."

"He was an empathetic boy. I'm confused."

Adam Quraishi, teacher, Cold Lake, Alberta

 

"May Allah ... give him [the] highest level of Jannah as he was a Mujahid!"

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"I can't imagine the pain of losing a child, much less one this way."

"May Allah forgive him and accept him in paradise."

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Security guards confront a charging attacker at the entrance to Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli community near Gaza. Photo by X.com

Zachareah Adam Quraishi, born and raised in Canada, chose of his own free will to punish Israel for its military incursion into Gaza to pursue Hamas terrorists who had flooded into Israel by the thousands in a rehearsed, prepared mission to indulge in mass rape, torture, bloodletting, slaughtering all those they came across in southern Israel's farming kibbutzim and the Nova Music Festival close to the border of Gaza, on October 7. According to Zachareah and others like him who took part in anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rallies and encampments at Canada's universities, Hamas did no wrong in 'resisting' the 'occupation'.

 

He traveled to Israel on a visitor's visa he had acquired while in Alberta, and when there, rented a car and drove to southern Israel, to a farming village that had been attacked by Hamas terrorists and where twenty of its residents had been murdered. The traumatized village was being guarded by Israeli security personnel. There, at the village of Netiv Ha'asafa, Zachareah parked that rental vehicle, exited it with a knife and screaming "Free Palestine!" while rushing toward Israeli security guards with a knife was shot by the guards. 

A video released by the Israel Defense Forces show armed guards patrolling beside the fortified front gate of the community. They were alerted by the behaviour of the man who parked close by, then rushed forward toward them. His arrival in Israel the day before, as a tourist, ended with him as a terrorist, one whose intention was to stab Israelis to death. Israelis so accustomed to being accosted by knife-wielding Palestinians they readily recognize the symptomatic behaviour, to respond instantly. That response was Zachareah Adam Quraishi's death.

The father of this man who is one of five children his parents raised,  is a high school teacher with the Siksika Nation, one of Canada's many First Nation tribes. The Siksika Nation is from southern Alberta. Adam Quraishi maintains a Facebook page. Among other photographs of his children, their school graduation photos, there is one of a young man, resembling the face in the passport photograph of the attacker, that had been circulated by Israeli authorities.

Passport belonging to Canadian attacker Zachariah Adam Quraishi. Photo by Handout