This weekend in Toronto, protesters will gather at the Ontario legislature at Queen’s Park to hold the Al Quds Day rally. ‘Al Quds’, which refers to Jerusalem, is an annual demonstration first launched by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. Aimed at exporting the Islamic revolution, Al Quds Day protests around the world call for the conquest of Israel and its replacement with an extremist Islamic state. In the past, the event has been nothing short of, well, eventful. Last year, speakers denounced Israelis as “barbarians” and “inhuman”. Israel was described as a “cancer” that must be killed. And the flag of Hezbollah, a Lebanese terror group banned under Canadian law, was flown with enthusiasm.
Media attention has rightly focused on whether Ontario’s government should allow the legislature’s grounds to host such hatred. Indeed, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs filmed last year’s rally and provided this evidence to the Sergeant-at-Arms, arguing that it amounted to a violation of the legislature’s demonstrations policy.
Queen’s Park would be wise to deny permission for this year’s Al Quds rally, and there is still time to do so. That said, this episode has implications far beyond Al Quds Day.
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Let them spout off publicly, wave their flags and banners, chant, vilify, speak to like minded onlookers. The “official” MSM will report all that they say (because if they don’t, independent media will) and we all get to see for ourselves what they stand for. Parade down Yonge St and we all get to see them and their usual accomplices as well. Very public, very open. Then the bystander can judge for themselves whether they should support what they espouse, or what their “supporters” marching with them support.
Let the political class take the heat for allowing public space or venue, paid for by taxpayers to be used as their platform. It will look good on them.
I hope the local police video everything. There may be a few charges that could be laid under “the Code” and that would be a good thing.
Let them demonstrate. Take lots of pictures. Start as many investigations as we can afford.
Why do we have an embassy in Iran? To supply hostages to our enemy?
Why do we have an Iranian embassy in Canada? I doubt the information we may glean from that presence justifies the undoubted harm their agents are doing here. I may be wrong. CISIS may be much more effective than I suppose.
Summer is the time to act up downtown. Most Torontonians just ignore it. Between them, their extremist foes (whom never get criticized for some reason), the topless women that no one wants to see naked, the angry protesting students still living off dad’s visa cards (hence no need to get a summer job), the ethnic genocide protest from some part of the world we have no stake in, the anti-abortion zealots, the union on strike rotation, the PETA gross out fest, etc … it all blurs together after awhile. I just read the traffic report and plan the route accordingly.
Invite Barbara Hall. Make it an offer she can’t refuse.
I wonder what would happen if it was the “White Supremacists”? I think you would see cameras from the MSM and Barbara Hall.
Does that bother you?
It bothers me that you seem to be defending this group and their hateful message.
I don’t recall anyone on this site defending white supremacists.
Couldn’t care less about this group. They are extremists who have enough enemies among their fellow Muslims. Their message will have no effect on the fate of Jerusalem.
Lyndia comes real closeto defending WS’s in that un-indictable, Steynian fashion. For that matter, most of the free speech types threw a fit against the hrc when it was going after Marc Lemire. Where’s the principled defense when the controversial speech comes from extremist Muslims?
Yes, as it shows that the government is all for “free speech” for any minority group but not for any “white” group even though the past has shown that hate speech comes from both groups. They are not treated the same in government or in the governments’ sub group “Human Rights of Ontario”.
Only problem with your attempt to get on the cross is that media coverage or lack thereof has no effect on freedom of speech.
As history recalls, the neo-nazis have and continue to have their protests in Calgary and other cities across Canada.
Moreover, as we’ve discussed you are either daft or lying about the Human Rights Commission, as there is NO rule about what races can file a complaint. Anyone can. Minorities do it more because they are the targets more.
The “white” groups you speak of mostly complain about the “indignities” of having to see other races exist/prosper in their “rightful” home [on Turtle Island]. This is not the same as being denied a loan, forced out of your home, harassed on the job or attacked in the streets for no reason other than how you were born.
Freedom of Speech does not imply freedom from opposition.