Pro-Israel blogger assaulted in Toronto

Michael Coren writes:

Canada really has become an odd place. A blogger who films anti-Israel demonstrations - where Jews are often called the most obscene names – was assaulted this weekend by a leading member of the Canadian Arab Federation and CUPE. He wasn’t hurt but the attacker pushed him and tried to stop him using his camera. Surely this isn’t legal – at least not in countries where Sharia Law doesn’t apply. The bully then told the police that the awful man with the camera was a racist and the cop told the blogger to “keep things peaceful.”

Only in Canada.

Thankfully, Blazing Cat Fur was not hurt. More at his site, with more video.

Update: Mark Steyn comments.

I'm afraid Mr Coren's view of law enforcement is hopelessly outmoded. The enforcers of the modern "tolerant" "multicultural" society will tolerate the explicitly intolerant and avowedly unicultural, but they won't tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance. From Rushdie to van Gogh to the Motoons, law enforcement has guarded the thugs and harrassed those who draw attention to the thuggery. This is PC policing: There are identity groups who merit the solicitude of the constabulary, and there are the rest of you who don't. Mass Muslim immigration will impose severe strains on the Euro-Canadian welfare states in the years ahead. In increasingly fractious societies, the police will be out in force - upholding not the law but the dopiest fatuities of the multiculti delusion.

Here in Ottawa we recently had Ann Coulter's speech at University of Ottawa cancelled because police said they could not guarantee her safety but warned her security guards that if they laid a hand on a disruptive demonstrator the police would charge them.