Author Topic: Canadian Islamaphobia or Free Speech?  (Read 687 times)

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Offline Blueblood

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Re: Canadian Islamaphobia or Free Speech?
« on: February 19, 2017, 10:06:35 am »
There was a rally on Friday to protect free speech.   Free speech needed to be protected in front of a Toronto Mosque, with Muslims being told, via loudspeaker and banners, that they were terrorists, that Islam was hate and should be banned; they also attempted to stop people entering the Mosque.   Police are considering whether or not the actions of the protesters are a hate crime, or part of free speech.   
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-investigate-anti-muslim-rally-hate-crime-1.3990044
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/anti-muslim-protest-masjid-toronto-1.3988906

So, what do you think?  Should the protesters be charged with hate speech or were they well within their rights to protest in the manner they did?

As I always say, they have the right to make as big as fools out of themselves as they want.

However my issue with protesting in that manner is preventing other people to do things they have a right doing I.e. Going to pray at a mosque.  Which makes them (the protestors) hypocrites.