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Man who waved terrorist flag in Toronto charged with public incitement of hatred: police | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)

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A man who allegedly waved the flag of a terrorist group while marching in downtown Toronto has been arrested and charged.

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[–] Thrillhouse 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely was Hamas or something if I had to guess.

[–] Sprawlie 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably, but it's weird. I've seen Hamas flags at rallies already with zero police response. We've seen videos of masked Hamas supporters down town issues threats, with zero police action.

So it just seems a little weird to suddenly now action it. I'm all for removing these hate symbols. Just wondering exactly what triggered it NOW instead of years of it (Seeing Pro-Hamas messaging is not new post Oct7th, just ramped up)

I'd also love to see the same thing happen to anyone waving Nazi flags, or white supremacist messaging too.

[–] Thrillhouse 2 points 1 year ago

I’m wondering if it’s just this rally specifically because they’re protesting near a Jewish neighbourhood in TO. There’s been some news related to this protest in particular in the past week. Whether they apply these rules equally to white supremacist Nazi shitheads this could just be used as the rationale to shut it down. The law is rarely applied equally. This seems like a “make example of” situation.

I’m totally onboard with criticizing Israel’s completely bonkers campaign in Gaza but also leave civilians in Canada who have nothing to do with it alone.