B’nai Brith misses the point
August 13, 2008
I would agree that protestors chanting “Death to Jews” and “Viva Jihad” are not a good thing at all
. I would agree that Canada is not a place where Islam and its bigotries should be tolerated.
But I would not agree that these protests — ugly spectacle that they were — should be met with hate crimes prosecution. Even the charge of incitement doesn’t quite stick, because violence didn’t actually break out.
That said, I’d be somewhat more ambivalent if the authorities managed to take down the names of those chanting anti-Jewish slogans, and just happened to decide to deport any of them who happened to be here on student visas. They’d still be allowed to say their filthy statements, but there’s nothing to say that Canada has to provide them with the soapbox they’re looking for.
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