Conservative Commentator Attacks Muslim Mob with Canon!

[KAG]

Extremism in ANY form is scary as hell. Christian, Islamic, budist... any religious nutjob willing to kill in the name of their god is pretty fu@ked up. Especially when each religion preeches peace. This may sound harsh but I'm as nervous about evangelical freaks as muslim nuts (this applies only to the extreme form of either).

As for taking pictures in Downtown Toronto - it's a free country, snap away. If I, or anyone doesn't want their picture taken there are much better ways of going about letting the photographer know you don't want to be in their shot.

[robertsailor1]

When I meet someone who tells me he/she is a Christian the first thing I do is put my hand over my wallet.

[Nark]

Anybody else click on the single Muslims ad at the bottom of the page?

[azimuthaviation]

The law also says a convicted pedophile can go to the park and take pictures of kids to share online. Thats your free country?

Not my area of expertise ,i must bow to your expertize on the subject of Pedophllia.

Edited

I have a few friends who are priests, that hardly makes me an expert on pedophilia.

[crazy_aviator]

I would think that if you had just 1 friend as a priest, that would pretty well make you an expert

[mcrit]

I have a few friends who are priests, that hardly makes me an expert on pedophilia.

Hmmm.... Just as a thought experiment let's replace "priest" with "imam" and "pedophilia" with "beastiality". How long would it be before that comment got called out as racist?

[grimey]

How many imams have been caught in compromising positions with dogs, and then had islamic religious leadership defend them? Zero? How many choirboy diddling priests has the Catholic church either defended or quietly moved to another parish before the incidents became public? Over a thousand?

The catholic church earned it's bad press, by doing everything it could to defend priests who've assaulted children over the past 100 years.

[mcrit]

How many imams have been caught in compromising positions with dogs.

I'm sure the free press in Iran would be ever so quick to point out their clergy's short comings. But that is not the point. It is unacceptable to tar an entire race/ethnic group/faith for the actions of a few. At least that is what the PC members of this board keep saying. Take the recent thread about Toronto's most wanted, or the thread about the Caribana incidents. If one where to draw a link between ethnicity and those events one would find oneself dealing with the human rights commission. I'm not a hard core religious person by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I Catholic. I'm just sick and tired of PC hypocrisy going unchallenged.

[azimuthaviation]

You want to champion free speech and expose double standards? Every year Iran hosts a holocaust deniers conference where all the racists, fascists, and anti semites gather under the pretense of defendng free speech, since questioning the holocaust is illegal in most of Europe. You should go, and give that wonderful "poor little cant be racist me" you just gave here. But you really dont care about free speech or political correctness do you? You and Ahmadinejad may not be two peas of the same pod, but at least two cheeks of the same backside in this case.

You can both try to cover your agendas with a mask of free speech, but your ugly face shows through. So if you cant see the difference between what is censored by PC and what is tolerated, maybe try to give people a little bit more credit, and realise we know the intentions, and make the distinction based on that.

[mcrit]

Every year Iran hosts a holocaust deniers conference...

Booked your trip yet AA?

[JakeYYZ]

Northy:
1) Is there -any- excuse whatsoever for assaulting a complete stranger because they pointed a camera in your general direction in a public place?
2) Is there -any- excuse whatsoever for police refusing to charge a person with assault when there is picture evidence, video evidence AND cooperative witnesses?
That's the issue here. It’s irrelevant if David Menzies is the biggest schmuck in the entire world. Or do we only protect “nice” people in your world?
Frankly Northy, there are some things in life we just don't have to put up with. Getting smacked in the head while out for a stroll on Dundas Street is right up there near the top of the list.

So far, Jake, all we have is Menzies' account of what happened. I'm going to assume (I know..) that the police/crown aren't the most liberal-minded people out there, and they have deigned to lay charges. Why? Is it perhaps because the 'evidence' in this case doesn't fit the facts as Menzies would have us believe? Could it possibly be because Menzies went out of his way to be deliberately provocative with his camera? Perhaps he took pictures of the Muslim women, was subsequently asked by them not to, continued, and then a scuffle developed?
So, in a vacuum, the answer to both of your questions above is: No, there's no excuse for that conduct. However I think that we're not in a vacuum here, and there's more to the whole thing than we're being told...given the animosity in North America, and elsewhere, between some 'conservatives' and Muslims, one wonders whether this situation was manufactured.

Nark:

I don't give a flying-hootinany what religion she is, she does not have any right to privacy, IN A PUBLIC STREET.

If I was walking down the street at home, and a tourist took a shot of a streetscape, which had me, my wife and the boys in it incidentally, then I have no expectation of privacy. However, if it was a deliberately targeted picture of us, then I think that I do have a right to be asked for my permission beforehand.

Menzies has advanced his complaint to the Police Services Board..I guess we’ll have to wait the outcome. He has an eager Syrian couple, who spoke Arabic and were willing to testify on his behalf.

[Dash-Ate]

muslims did this????

[2R]

If you edit my comments could you be so kind as to tell me what offended you as no offence was meant.
If we are not allowed to talk about those people or their cause that planted two bombs on Canadian airplanes killing hundreds of Canadians .If we are not allowed to talk about their clothing choices or the petty squabbles that their particular deviance of worshipping God was the reason for their particular brand of malfeasance.
One of the reasons for war is people who do not talk about their issues.
Lets us not become the good Germans of the 21st century where we fear talking about those who wear brown shirts or those who may take offence because we do not agree with their lifestyle choices.
Let us celebrate our hard fought freedoms by braving those subjects in free and open debate.
Failure to engage in open debate,it only allows those who would oppress you to bully you into silence like the brown shirts bullied the good Germans into silence in the thirties.

If you cannot ask questions then the bad guys have won.

[Expat]

After having seen what goes on here, in this place we liberated, we educated, where we spent billions reforming, I have no problem being Christian, even if it means admitting to a few cases of indecency, commited by of a few people. It is rampant here, and condoned. And the boys are too young for the choir.
And it will eventually make its way to Canada, like honor killings!

[SuperchargedRS]

Wait wait, so this guy with his 9yr old son took a photo in a public street and some crazy attacked him infront of his son??

If someone unprovoked (as far as a civilized person is concerned) came after me and my kid I'd lay them out. Good thing that this uncivilized attacker did this in Canada, in the US or many other countries this could ended more permanently for the attacker.

[Expat]

Wait wait, so this guy with his 9yr old son took a photo in a public street and some crazy attacked him infront of his son??

If someone unprovoked (as far as a civilized person is concerned) came after me and my kid I'd lay them out. Good thing that this uncivilized attacker did this in Canada, in the US or many other countries this could ended more permanently for the attacker.

How about the German couple, who went swimming in a secluded lake, in the middle of nowhere, and pitched a tent and went to sleep afterwards???
In the morning, they were discovered with a full Kalashnikov magazine in the skin.
Would you wish to import such a culture?
We are there, as far as I see.

[. ._]

Sometimes I think immigrants should have mandatory courses in how to relax like Canadians.

"So Mr. Bangaloosh, what do you do when you see a white person taking a picture?"

"I crush his head with the closest hard object I find!"

"I'm sorry sir. That may be what is done in Srebistakistan. In Canada we just let people take pictures."

"But that is anti-Saucestifarian! My Tomato Sauce God would commit me to hell if I let someone steal my soul and change it to digital information by taking a picture!"

"Well, Mr. Bangaloosh, in Canada we respect religious freedom. It's in the Charter. I recommend if that happens, you both have a beer and decide what to do about the situation."

"I don't drink."

"Maybe spark up a doob with the picture taker and become friends?"

"I don't do drugs."

"Perhaps invite him to a hockey game and discuss the similarities of your cultures and persuade him to delete the photo?"

"I don't follow hockey. It is a barbaric game for fat Canadians."

"Hmm. Maybe you could call the police and this could proceed through the courts and the judges could decide what is the most just."

"My religion does not recognize any judge other than a local head of Saucestifarianism!"

"OK. Uh, maybe you could just walk up to the guy, explain to him that your religion says you will go to hell if a picture is taken, ask the guy to delete the picture and offer to take a picture of him for his family?"

"Uh, I think I could probably do that. But he will still burn in hell like the infidel that he is!"

"Very good, Mr. Bangaloosh! You are now learning how to hide your racism like a good Canadian!"

[Jack Klumpus]

Walking down same said square, you see a the hottest blonde girl walking with her biker boyfriends. She's wearing nothing but a thong, a bikini top, and stripper heels.

Anyone here thinks they would have the right (read: balls) to start snapping pictures of her walking down the street?

Do you think her biker boyfriend(s) closed fisted contact with your face would hurt:

a- just like Khadijja's?
b- stronger than Khadijja's?
c- less than Khadijja's?
d- who cares I'm getting punched in the face!

This guy was being a bully. Getting his kicks by thinking he's going to play the system and make sure the people that look different are going to pay. At the end of the day, he got a ninja punch to the face, and the cops just laughed him off. All he got was himself crying on the internet, with a few of his simple minded fans.

[2R]

Pre-judging someones behaviour based on their appearance could be construed as RACIST.
But we are allowed to tell blond jokes and make bad comments about bikers.If the biker was wearing a lot of cloth on his head (instead of a helmet) you might be accused of being a RACIST.
If she was a real bikers bitch you could ask her to take the bikini off for a better picture on the bike