A pro-Hezbollah billboard has stirred controversy in Windsor, Canada. According to The Windsor Star: “One of the people responsible for the controversial billboard said he did it to honour freedom fighting families back home — and it’s their Canadian right to do so.
“In Canada we want peace,” said Hussein Dabaja, a Lebanese-born Hezbollah supporter. “We’re not trying offend anybody. We have freedom of speech. It’s a free country. We can do anything. Every Lebanese in Canada has somebody that died in Lebanon, the freedom fighters. Who is Hezbollah? Our brothers, our family, our parents, our friends. We came to Canada and they stayed there to fight.”
The Windsor Star notes: “The billboard went up Friday at the corner of Wyandotte Street East and Marion Avenue, and immediately drew fire from the Windsor Jewish Community Centre, the Lebanese Christian political group Kataeb and others.
The sign prominently depicts Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, [which is] considered a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.”
Hussein Dabaja, the Hezbollah supporter, adds: “People who have something against the billboard don’t like Hezbollah and they don’t want peace.”
Scary.
Backers defend controversial sign [The Windsor Star]
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Immigrants should be grateful to live in America (and Canada) and stop bringing their wars here!!!
Wow this is the epitome of ignorance!
“stop bringing their wars here”
YOU are the cause of our wars my friend, you and all your zionist friends.
“terrorist billboard” how disappointing..no not really we’re used to being called terrorists because you instill evil in our lands and expect us to say YES MASTER THANK YOU!
Not until where all living like you right Joanna! Then what, civil war!
u guys should stop this BS n live in peace u guys here to have a batter life not start anther fuckin war if u dont like it here u guys should go back to the mideast
No one can stop us from fighting and protecting our countries !!!!!!!!!!!!
I am Lebanese and I came to Canada to find peace, we don’t want to make problems and war, politic problems are in Lebanon since35 years, and didn’t finish yet until now, it was Palestinian, Iranian and Syrian problems it’s fanatics people problems not Lebanese one. So who want to fight he has to go and fight there not here, not even in Lebanon it’s a beautiful country and they made it the worth one, is that what they call ‘ to love their country”, they destroyed it.
“We’re not trying to offend anybody. We have freedom of speech. It’s a free country. We can do anything.”
Yet they don’t say that when a newspaper here publishes cartoons of their so-called prophet. What about freedom of speech then?
Instead they kill people for it.
Typical religious hypocrisy.
I was born here in Canada. I am a second generation Canadian. My parents came here in the early 19060s.
Having said that, for all those “go-back-to-where-you-came-from people”… I would like to say… If you can have billboards supporting Israel & the IDF then why not a Lebanese one supporting Hezbollah?
Double standars by racists?.. I wonder if the the French have a valid reason for seperation of Quebec?… Wonder how we will be treated a 100 years from now in this country… hmm
I agree with freedom of speech. I don’t agree with Muslims coming to America trying to change our way of life. If you don’t like it here, you can get the fuck out.
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