The Double Standard is alive and well in Canada -- Mohammed Elmasry of Waterloo University

If he were a blue-collar worker, he would have been charged or landed in the slammer for fomenting hate -- hate crime -- but Elmasry is on the University of Waterloo staff.

Elmasry spared arrest March 13, 2005. Brodie Fenlon

CONTROVERSIAL remarks made by the president of the Canadian Islamic Congress during a TV debate last October were "distasteful" but don't warrant hate crime charges, police say. Halton Regional Police Service announced it will not lay charges against Mohamed Elmasry for his comments on the Michael Coren Live program.

During a panel discussion of the topic "What is a Terrorist?" Elmasry said any Israeli over the age of 18 could be attacked because they are all members of the Israeli army. He later clarified that he was expressing the view of many Palestinians, not his own personal opinion. [my italics NJC]

That did not sit well with Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada. "What could be more hateful than legitimizing the targeting of almost every Israeli over 18 irrespective of their place of residence?" he said in a statement. [. . . . ]