In Gaza, locals are going on TV and denouncing Hamas, and a top Islamic scholar there has issued a fatwa against the terror group. In Canada, protesters in the streets continue to praise the group and idolize their leaders — living and dead.
Maybe you’ve heard that there is a vigil scheduled for Nov. 26 to celebrate the Hamas terrorist leader, Yahya Sinwar. It’s being held at Mississauga’s central square, adjacent to the city hall, on city property and the mayor says there is nothing that can be done.
“That would be called censorship, preferential treatment, being judgemental — the stifling of freedom of speech which is something most Canadians value,” Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish posted to X last week when questioned about the event.
The last time she posted about censorship was in defence of the Al Quds day rally being held at Queen’s Park —, just add that to the list of reasons I didn’t think she was fit to be mayor. This vigil is to honour the dead leader of a banned terrorist group in Canada, and Parrish can’t be bothered to even say she opposes it.
She gave a bizarre interview to John Moore on Newstalk 1010, claiming the group may not be real, but she wouldn’t condemn the celebration of Hamas leader Sinwar.
“If I see a Hamas terrorist, I will rip him to shreds,” a woman is seen saying to Israel’s Channel 12. “Hamas took my own son!”
“May God take revenge on Hamas, they ruined our lives,” another woman said. “May God take his revenge on you Sinwar.”
Compare that to what is chanted out or paraded in the streets of Canada.
Regularly, the leadership of Hamas or Hezbollah — both banned terrorist groups — are celebrated. For months, the face or image of Abu Obaida, the spokesman of Hamas, has been featured on the clothing, phone cases and paraphernalia of people at and more importantly leading the protests.
This weekend, an activist identified as Ahmad Jarrar Hajahmad, took to the streets of Toronto to praise Hamas and denounce Israel.
“Teach your children the Zionist entity is the enemy. Teach your children that the resistance (Hamas) is an honour. Teach your children that there is no such country called Israel,” Hajahmad said.
Teaching children those “ideals” will only lead to never ending war.
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Hajahmad has been a leader of the protests in Toronto for months; he was also instrumental in setting up and supplying the encampments at the University of Toronto, McGill University and the University of Ottawa. The leaders of the “pro-Palestinian” protests, which is how most of my media colleagues still describe them, don’t hide the fact that they openly support Hamas anymore. They don’t hide that they want Israel gone.
“From Palestine to Lebanon, Israel will soon be gone,” the yahoos were chanting in the streets of Montreal this past weekend.
Yes, linking together Hezbollah, which has no land dispute with Israel – just pure Jew hatred – with Hamas is the new thing for the protest groups to do.
Meanwhile, each weekend, the protesters in Toronto shut down major streets for their Islamic prayer or their protests against Israel. If a Catholic group, let’s say Lebanese Maronite Catholics, decided to shut down a major city street or intersection for a mass in protest, there is no doubt that they would be shut down and moved along as they should be. But this group is allowed to do what no one else can.
There are plenty of laws that police services could use to stop this nonsense, they just simply refused to because they don’t want to deal with this problem.
And so the public looks on, increasingly frustrated, seeing two-tiered policing happening.
Stop talking to me about hate speech laws, your actions have shown they are just “laws” to shut down speech you don’t like, not anything to deal with hate speech. Stop talking to me about wanting to stop hate rallies, the authorities have let them go on for the last year.
Official Canada is now accepting of support for terrorism; we, the people, are not.