Robert Spencer writes at Frontpagemag.com:

Global News reported Sunday that "Peel Regional Police say they are investigating an incident as 'hate-motivated' after a woman can be seen on video at a Mississauga Islamic centre appearing to tear the pages of a Qur'an and putting the pages on cars while calling the religious text 'Satanic.'" So apparently now it's a crime in Canada to rip the Qur'an, and even to think ill of it.

This is not the most effective way to call attention to the exhortations to violence and hatred that are within the Qur'an. It allows the Muslims at the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, where this incident took place, to play the role of the victim, which they are doing to the hilt in the wake of this incident, and which we have seen that Muslim spokesmen are all too eager to play -- victimhood, after all, is currency in today's society. . . .

Is tearing up a book a crime? Is leaving paper on someone's car a crime? The only crime here is that the woman who did this, an ex-Muslim named Sandra Solomon, is protesting against a protected victim group that is eager to seize upon anything that it can portray as a "hate crime," so as to buttress its claims to be victims of widespread "Islamophobia," persecution and harassment, and thus in need of special consideration and accommodation.

"So -- Sandra Solomon was rude and obnoxious," Spencer continues. "She called the Qur'an a 'Satanic, evil book.' She said other Islamic books were 'garbage.'

"This is all reported in this article as if it is evidence of a crime," Spencer notes. "But is thinking negatively about the Qur'an and Islam really a crime in Canada? It may be: after the passage of the 'anti-Islamophobia' motion M-103, there is no certainty that Canada guarantees the freedom of speech."

O Khanada: "But disliking the Qur'an and Islam, and tearing the Qur'an, are actually only crimes under Islamic law," Spencer writes. "Is Canada now adopting Sharia blasphemy laws? We shall see, in the way Canadian authorities treat this case."

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