Canada will soon unveil measures to crack down on online extremism following the killing of a Muslim family, a crime that police said was inspired by hate, a government minister said on Wednesday.
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Justin Trudeau, federal leaders commit to fighting hate in wake of attack on Muslim family in London, Ont.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the attack that killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., a terrorist attack motivated by hatred.
Trudeau said hate is often fuelled by small actions that can turn into “ugly” trends — and real violence.
Jagmeet Singh goes right off the deep-end – “The reality is, our Canada is a palace of racism, of violence, of genocide of Indigenous people. And our Canada is a place where Muslims are not safe.”
Muslim family ID’d in fatal truck attack in London, Ont., known for commitment to community
The Muslim family identified as the victims of a hit and run Sunday in what police are calling a hate-motivated attack in London, Ont., were deeply involved in the community and committed to their faith, friends and family say.
Salman Afzaal, 46, his wife Madiha Salman, 44, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Afzaal and Salman Afzaal’s 74-year-old mother were killed after a black truck slammed into them as they took an evening walk.
4 killed in London, Ont. collision likely targeted for being Muslim, police say
Four members of a London, Ont., family who were struck and killed by a vehicle in the city’s northwest Sunday evening are believed to have been targeted because they were Muslim, the area’s police chief says.
“We believe this was an intentional act and that the victims of this horrific incident were targeted,” Chief Steve Williams told reporters Monday afternoon.
“We believe the victims were targeted because of their Islamic faith.”
More … A 20-year-old London man identified by police as Nathaniel Veltman is now in custody in connection with the attack.
BLM rioters brutally pummel White pedestrian in savage hate crime attack
The local “mainstream” media is not covering the attack. How many of these have occurred in the past year that we don’t know anything about?
This Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America
It’s said to be the most Asian city outside Asia. Where a quarter of residents speak a Chinese language and the char siu rivals what’s served in Hong Kong barbecue shops. Where a Sikh gurdwara, a Tibetan monastery, and a Chinese evangelical church coexist in harmony along a 3-kilometer stretch of road dubbed the Highway to Heaven. The kind of place that should be immune to a rise in pandemic-fueled racism.
The Curious Case of the Asian American Victim
The mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16, which took the lives of six Asian women among the eight victims, appears to be a one-off event – the violent act of a deeply troubled 21-year-old man who, according to what he told the police, was trying to wipe away sexual temptation, in the form of massage parlors that he felt guilty patronizing.
But that’s not how the incident was treated by the Asian American commentariat. Instead, a consensus quickly formed among journalists, scholars, and cultural figures writing op-eds and giving broadcast interviews that the shooting represented a pervasive, historical victimization by Asian people at the hands of the white majority. It was almost as if shootings of Asian women by white gunmen were an everyday occurrence, rather than a singular, exceedingly rare event.
Impending Online Hate Speech Legislation Worries Free Speech Advocates
A federal bill to combat harmful content and hate speech online is expected to be tabled soon, but free speech advocates are concerned that it may be too restrictive. Critics are also sounding the alarm on amendments to the existing Bill C-10 that seeks to regulate video content on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
The hate speech bill soon to be tabled will create a new regulator with the power to levy fines and require transparency from social media outlets, including about their algorithms. The legislation will also set out a legal framework for prohibiting hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, non-consensual sharing of intimate content, and child sexual exploitative content.
You are everything they hate. You are the Hate Crime.
A pensioner respectfully disagreed with someone in a letter – and cops recorded it as a ‘hate incident’.
How did polite disagreement become a police matter?
In the age of the easily offended, literally anything can be classified as hateful. And no, not just by woke Twitter warriors or snowflake students – by the actual police.
The police are recording all manner of perfectly normal comments and behaviour as ‘hate incidents’. All it takes is for the supposed victim – or anyone else – to see something, anything, as a hate incident and, hey presto, it is a hate incident.
Are fake hate crimes still motivated by racism?
Albion College in Michigan seems to think so
When racist graffiti appeared on the walls of a dormitory at Albion College in Michigan, the college heads and student body were outraged. The graffiti, which included racial slurs, anti-Semitic remarks and multiple references to the Ku Klux Klan, prompted college officials to put forward a $1,000 bounty for anyone with information as to the perpetrator. Albion College President Mathew Johnson warned that ‘if they are Albion College students, they will also immediately be subject to the student conduct process — including the potential for suspension or expulsion’. Criminal charges would follow.
The rise of hate-crime hoaxes on American campuses
Why are there so many incidents of invented or imagined racist hostility?
Another racial hoax has occurred on an American campus, this time at Albion College, a small liberal arts institution in Michigan.
Racist graffiti was found on the walls of Albion’s Mitchell Towers last week. The graffiti consisted of racist slurs, including the N-word, anti-Semitic references, and allusions to a Ku Klux Klan presence on campus. Investigations quickly revealed that a black male student was responsible for the vandalism. He was caught on video and confessed to authorities.
Rantz: Progressive BLM activist accused in ‘violent’ anti-Asian hate crimes
One day after eight women were murdered in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian American, Christopher Hamner posted on Facebook that we’ve “all had bad days but it never justifies hate crimes.” But the day before, Hamner allegedly committed a hate crime against an Asian American woman in Seattle. It wasn’t his only alleged victim.
A day after eight women were murdered in Atlanta, Christopher Hamner posted on Facebook that we’ve “all had bad days but it never justifies hate crimes.” The day before, Hamner allegedly committed a hate crime against an Asian American Seattleite. I discussed on @TuckerCarlson! pic.twitter.com/gtSFJbc3PU
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) April 15, 2021
Official narrative takes another pounding: Mexican-American woman, 70, is battered by racist black woman who thought she was Asian
An elderly Mexican-American woman was badly beaten by a racist bus passenger who mistook her for an Asian-American, the victim’s son said.
The 70-year-old victim, named only as Becky by her son Pete, suffered a concussion, a broken nose, swollen eyes and had her hair pulled out last Friday.
She was attacked while on her way to go grocery shopping in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood.
Of hate, crimes and hate crimes: Anti-Asian violence is not quite what city pols want it to be
Flipping through the paper on Friday, you could read about:
A young Asian man who was at the Home Depot in East New York when a man brandished a two-by-four and asked his girlfriend, “Why you with that little d–k Asian n—-r?” while telling him, “I’ll cut you, you f—–g Asian…Don’t call anyone. I’m a Blood. I’ll shoot you.”
What the left ignores in all these anti-Asian hate crimes
A professor named Liam O’Mara from Chapman University in California, who was also a candidate for a Riverside County congressional seat, tweeted a picture of a Ku Klux Klan hood to Candace Owens, which read, “Yikes. You may’ve dropped this.” This was because Miss Owens previously tweeted, “The #1 violent offenders against black people are other black people.”
