Trudeau announces Amira Elghawaby as Canada's first representative to combat Islamophobia

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Yeah, and the way to handle that is arrest and prosecute the people doing it. Not demonize and brutalize every Palestinian, Gazan, and/or Muslim in Canada.
Yes, thank you. Exactly.
How can I not post a Twit from Amira Elghawaby in a thread about Amira Elghawaby? To the Elghawaby’s of the world — and there are plenty of them in activist circles — even the most hateful epithets directed toward Jews are bound to pale in comparison to the carnage Israel has wreaked on the battlefield in Gaza

Elghawaby and her ilk seem genuinely confused by all the fuss about the hateful words being publicly uttered by Israel’s detractors here in North America, what with all the “maiming” and “orphaning” going on halfway across the world.

Understanding this mindset is critical to understanding why the anti-Israel crowd is increasingly taking to saying the quiet part out loud. Their words, no matter how heinous, are, in their unshakable view, far outweighed by Israel’s deeds. What’s the harm, then, in coming out and saying exactly what they mean?

An ugly scene unfolded on Saturday, as dozens of anti-Israel demonstrators clogged the streets of downtown Ottawa, shouting genocidal slogans like “long live Oct. 7” and “from the river to the sea,” etc…

Before Oct. 7, it would have been hard to fathom a crowd of dozens of demonstrators publicly celebrating the worst pogrom since the Holocaust — within spitting distance of the seat of Canada’s government, no less…but here we are.

Their words and actions leave little room for ambiguity, laying bare the current of anti-Jewish hatred that electrifies the so-called Free Palestine movement… “but it’s just a few bad apples” and so on & so forth.
In the demonstration Elghawaby referred to, the marchers cheered as one of their number, equipped with a microphone, shouted this praise for Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel:
“Our resistance attacks are proof that we are almost free! Oct. 7 is proof that we are almost free! Long live Oct. 7! Long live the resistance. Long live the intifada! Long live every form of resistance.”

In other words, long live murder, rape, torture and kidnapping by terrorists.
What happened in Ottawa over the weekend is far more than “problematic” in the context of the reality that for months Jewish gathering places have been firebombed, Jewish day schools shot at, Jewish-owned businesses torched and vandalized, Swastikas painted on synagogues and homes, Jewish university students threatened and Jewish communities, described as “Zionist-infested” areas, targeted.

Back in Early-Mid February’s protest snaked through downtown Toronto, eventually making its way to the Israeli consulate. While demonstrating in front of the consulate of a foreign government whose actions you disagree with is perfectly legitimate, the choice to target this particular hospital (Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital) shows that the protesters had far more sinister motives where pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked the entrance, held signs glorifying terrorists and chanted in support of committing violence against Israelis — endearing anyone to the Palestinian cause. But it seems to have worked on Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Islamophobia czar, who used the opportunity to excuse the protesters’ reprehensible actions and opine on geopolitical issues.
Like the weeks-long protest at the Avenue Road overpass, in the heart of one of the country’s largest Jewish neighbourhoods, the targeting of Mount Sinai was clearly intended to send the message that these demonstrators are not merely voicing their opposition to a foreign government, but to Jews in general.

Not that the protesters themselves would ever admit this, as doing so would expose them to hate crime charges. The group Toronto4Palestine said that Mount Sinai “just happens to be along our regular rally route.” How were they supposed to know it’s the one hospital (of the five on Hospital row) in that area with strong ties to the Jewish community?
Elghawaby noted that blocking the entrance to a public hospital was “troubling,” but also criticized “the rush to label protesters as antisemitic and/or terrorist sympathizers.”
 

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Interesting. What sentence would you propose for the crime of saying things the Conservatives disagree with?

Can we expect legislation shortly after Poo-lover takes the reins?