Canada: Muslim protester charged with ‘advocating harm against Jewish community’ at Toronto pro-Hamas protests

Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad may well not see what the problem is. After all, the book he thinks is the writing of the creator of the universe himself says that the disobedient Jews were transformed into apes and pigs (2:63-5, 5:59-60, 7:166) and that Jews are the “most vile of created beings” (98:6). It tells him to be “ruthless to unbelievers” (48:29) and even to “kill them” wherever he finds them (2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5). So it is not surprising that in a moment of overflowing Islamic fervor, he called for harming Jews. To do so, as far as he is concerned if he is a true believer in Islam, is a sacred act.

More on this story. “Terror charge laid against man accused of advocating harm against Jewish community at Toronto demonstrations,” CBC News, July 22, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A 33-year-old Toronto man is facing a terrorism charge for “public statements that advocated for the detestation and harm against members of the Israeli and Jewish communities,” police say.

Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad attended pro-Palestinian rallies in the Bay Street and Front Street W. area on May 25 and Sept. 7, 2024, where he used “amplification devices” to make the statements, Toronto police said in a news release Wednesday.

Investigators carried out a search warrant at a Toronto home on March 7, 2025.

Toronto police’s hate crimes unit and a multi-agency Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) led by the RCMP later collected evidence suggesting Hajahmad “acted for the benefit of, and in association with, Hamas, a designated terrorist group,” the news release says….

Mohamed El Rashidy, defence lawyer for the accused, said his client is presumed innocent and has no connection to Hamas or any other foreign group.

“He faces a single charge arising from speaking at public demonstrations. No violence, no weapon, no one harmed. Speaking out at a protest about the killing of civilians is protected expression, not terrorism,” El Rashidy said.