Commentary
Imagine the following scenario. A group of people who are angry at U.S. foreign policy and the government’s continued meddling in the Middle East decide to host a series of mass demonstrations across the United States, and even around the world, to commemorate and celebrate the 9/11 attacks of 2001, praising the “martyrdom” of those brave 19 “freedom fighters” who struck back against imperialism.
Sound unreal? Well, it is not in light of plans to march in the streets and on Canadian university campuses on Oct. 7 to “honour” the Hamas terrorist attack on southern Israel last year.
It is important to break this move down, without getting into slurs of who is behind it or their political leanings. In a nutshell, there are those in Canada who sincerely believe that it is OK, nay laudatory, to praise the members of Hamas—a listed terrorist group in this country and many others—for their assault on Israeli civilians last year. It is a good idea, apparently, to congratulate those behind the rapes, sexual mutilations, and kidnapping of women and other hostages. As they see it, it is necessary to remind the world that a bunch of extremist, misogynist jihadis for whom women are a lower class of human beings were doing this in the name of “justice” and “equality.”…