On July 1 as we celebrated Canada Day something horrendous happened in a German courtroom. A 28-year-old man stabbed a pregnant woman 18 times in the presence of a full court, with judge, court officials, witnesses and security guards while the woman's horrified three-year old child watched.
While the man attacked the woman her husband tried to help her. A court security guard mistakenly shot the husband, who was also stabbed in the fracas. He survived, but is in critical condition.
The assailant is locked up while prosecutors investigate whether to charge him with murder.
Are you horrified and outraged yet?
The woman was a Muslim, whose neighbour had called her a terrorist for wearing a hijab. She filed a complaint and was in court to testify. That is when the neighbour attacked her.
Are you still outraged?
Some people in Toronto aren't.
One comment I read on online in the SUN said: "If she or her offspring became terrorists, just think how many lives have been saved."
There are people who don't share that view. Stephan Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council of Jews told the Associated Press, "You don't have to be a Muslim to act against anti-Muslim behavior, and you don't have to be a Jew to act against anti-Semitism."
On Monday they buried Marwa al-Sherbini in her hometown of Alexandria, Egypt.
"We will avenge her killing," her brother Tarek el-Sherbini told The Associated Press by telephone from the mosque where prayers were being recited in front of his sister's coffin. "In the West, they don't recognize us. There is racism."
Read the Associated Press story
Watch the YouTube report
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