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.
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.
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?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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.”
Police have recorded over 2,000 ‘non-crime hate incidents’ by under-17s since 2014.
Police are recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs) committed by children.
NCHIs can be recorded when someone is accused of showing ‘hostility towards religion, race or transgender identity’, but no crime has been committed. There does not need to be any evidence of hate – just as with hate crimes more broadly, the only requirement is that the victim or anyone else perceives the motive of the non-crime incident to have been hateful.
