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]

Pakistan is in trouble. “In the past month over 300 people have been killed in suicide-bombings and fighting with Islamist militants. American officials say Al-Qaeda has reconstituted itself in the northern tribal areas. Many voices have suggested America should not hesitate to launch air-strikes there,” The Economist reports.

Pakistan is in a mess. In other news, clouds produce rain, it snows in Antarctica and curry is spicy.