In Canada, they have arrested a bunch of would-be terrorists -- who all, utterly by coincidence and without reflecting on the religion in any way are inexpiliably all Muslim.

Apparently in response, someone has vandalized Toronto mosque.

Vandals smashed 30 windows of a Toronto mosque and damaged nearby cars after the arrest of 17 suspected al Qaeda sympathizers accused of planning bomb attacks. Canadian Muslims expressed fear on Sunday that a backlash had begun.

The vandals struck overnight at the west-end mosque, a police official said on Sunday. A second official said he had no information on any link between the incident and the arrests, which began late Friday.

"The actual weapon that was used to break (the windows) is unknown," said secretary Ameer Ali of the International Muslims Organization of Toronto, which houses the mosque. "We believe it has to be a heavy instrument, possibly a sledgehammer or a pick ax, or it could even be a crowbar."

About five cars in a parking lot next to the mosque also had their windows broken, Ali said. He said the two-story mosque sees about 500 worshipers daily and the organization said the mosque is one of the largest in North America.

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair told a meeting with Islamic community leaders, "it is certainly possible that that damage was motivated by hate. Hatred in any form, and certainly in its expressions of violence and damaged property, will not be tolerated in our community."

How strange -- we so often are told that we must "understand" actions of the jihadi terrorists as a response to world events, whether we are talking about the 9/11 attacks, suicide bombings in Israel, or beheadings in Iraq. But when someone reacts to the capture of jihadi terrorists with nothing more than a little bit of vandalism, we are told that there is no room for hate in society.

Why the double standard?

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