5 Feet of Fury

Radical Islam and Our Cultural Suicide: my latest in FrontPage Magazine

Take the case of University of Toronto student Salman Hossain. In February, the National Post revealed that Hossain, a political science student at the school’s Mississauga campus, had been posting online comments calling for the death of Canadian soldiers.

“‘Canadian soldiers in Canadian soil who are training to go to Afghanistan or Iraq are legitimate targets to be killed,’ he wrote in one post. ‘Now it is POSSIBLE AND LEGITIMATE!!’

“In another, Hossain asked, ‘When do I get to shoot a few Jews down for attempting to blow up dozens of mosques in America right after 911?’

“Hossain’s posts were especially troubling in light of the fact ‘that two of the 18 men arrested in 2006 for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in Canada were students at the school.’

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[Michael] Coren continued. ‘Hossain likely will not even be prosecuted. Unlike journalists Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, currently facing numerous Human Rights Commission hearings…'”