Pride-Flagge an Markham-Schule verbrannt; 18-Jähriger angeklagt: Polizei
Pride flag burned at Markham school; two 18‑year‑olds charged in suspected hate-motivated incident
Pride-Flagge an Markham-Schule verbrannt; 18-Jähriger angeklagt: Polizei
Pride flag burned at Markham school; two 18‑year‑olds charged in suspected hate-motivated incident
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Gotta start those hate crimes young, not really surprised tho tbh
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It seems like this is a crime because he took property that wasn’t his and destroyed it, not because it’s illegal to burn the flag (at least from what I could gather from the article).
Mahan Mohammad Radmard and Sepehr Abadar must’ve been some Christian extremists to do such a homophobic act. /s
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This will likely have the opposite effect of what they intend ironically
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Would be interesting to know how much money nationally is spent on these trivial incidents of petty vandalism (e.g burning a small piece of nylon) compared to more serious crimes.
The “no one is illegal” and “immigrants welcome” left is going to have a reckoning realizing that many other cultures are not tolerant of LGBT stuff.
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The only flag that should be flying at ANY government building is the Country’s flag or at the least the provinces flag… not a bunch of rainbows of an ideology.
These kids need to face the consequences of their actions but the comments here acting like hate against the LGBT community is exclusive to immigrants is hilarious.
The amount of effort required to achieve absolutely nothing.
It’s 2026. Who are all these Gen X parents who are still teaching all their gen Z kids to hate gay people?
This inexplicable tendency by some to blow off obvious Muslim homophobia is called „asymmetric intercession“.
For Canadians and Americans in particular, political culture has a very specific identity-coalition framework in which Muslims, as a post-9/11 targeted minority, were absorbed into a broad progressive coalition of „protected groups.“ This coalition thinking — sometimes called „intersectional solidarity“ in its sincere form, or „competitive victimhood“ in its distorted form — creates strong reflexes to defend coalition members from criticism, even when that criticism is factually based and comes from within another part of the coalition (LGBT people).
This asymmetric focus reveals that the motivation is not actually logical consistency or concern for LGBT people. It is group protection applied selectively based on perceived social vulnerability. There’s a genuine tension here: the people deploying these deflections often consider themselves LGBT allies. But in practice, the move subordinates LGBT concerns to minority-group protection, which is itself a form of ranking whose suffering matters more.
A poster assumes that any negative generalization about Muslims must be rooted in Islamophobia because in many online contexts it often is. This leads them to treat news stories like this and accurate statistical or sociological claims as if they were slurs.
Pointing to Christian homophobia isn’t really an argument. It’s an attempt to dilute the moral force of the criticism by spreading blame until it becomes unthreatening. It’s a way of saying: if everyone is guilty, no one is especially guilty.
Saying „not all Muslims“ are like this is a standard in-group protection move. Saying this about the far right or Christians would be considered unnecessary because the far right and Christians are not cognitively coded as a vulnerable minority in the North American context.
Just burn Qurans like regular people, geez. Why ya gotta attack people that can’t change things about themselves.
Idiots!
Flag burning isn’t illegal in Canada… It’s why our law enforcement allows the Canadian flag to be burned so often..
Interesting to see charges layed.
Ruining your life over a rainbow flag. Smh
>Police say Sepehr Abadar, 18, of Markham, and Mahan Mohammad Radmard, 18,
The left’s love of Islam will never make sense to me
Sepehr Abadar and Mahan Mohammad Radmard… are we all acknowledging that 10 years of tolerating intolerance has destroyed this nation?
Since no one did, let me take the charge.
Deport!
Flags shouldn’t even be flying in the first place. Complete joke!
Burn your own flag and it is protected under free speech. Can’t go around burning people’s private property. In general not a fan of non Canadian or provincial flags on public property.
Around here they fly these flags on elementary schools for the month. To me that seems inappropriate given the age of elementary school students.
Do they really think it will offend us? What’s their logic? They will be caught by police and be punished eventually, which is humiliating for them and satisfying for us