A Facebook page inviting people to walk their dogs outside an east-Toronto mosque is becoming a hotbed of hostility, with Muslims threatening to kill dogs and their owners if they dare show up for ‘Walk your dog in front of the mosque Day.’
TORONTO SUN (H/T Susan K) The Facebook page emerged in the wake of the Al-Quds Islamic rally held at Queen’s Park just over a week ago. The yearly anti-Israel demonstration, started by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, was also attended by counter protestors, one of whom was a Jewish man who brought his 160-pound English Mastiff.
Allan Einstoss was arrested by police after getting into a scuffle when he was told by Muslim demonstrators to keep his dog away. His dog, Cupcake, was also kicked by at least on Muslim demonstrator.
ALLAN & CUPCAKE
Posted by Ali Shirazi, who identified himself as an Iranian-born resident of Toronto, it threatened all dog owners who plan to attend the Sept. 14 event at the Salahuddin mosque and community centre in the Kennedy Rd.-Eglinton Ave. E. area.
Facebook spokesman Meg Sinclair said administrators would keep an eye on the site for other threatening posts. “We’ll continue to remove specific posts on the page that violate (Facebook) terms, but the page as a whole is going to remain up for the time being,” said Sincliar.
He added that Facebook has received complaints about the dog-walk page but declined to say exactly how many. By late Monday, the dog-walk page listed 114 planning to attend the event and 1,550 still invited to take part.
Abdul Ibrahim, chief administrator for the Salahuddin mosque, said they would be ready for whatever trouble the dog-walk might bring.
“This is a community centre here, it has nothing to do with Al-Quds,” said Ibrahim, adding that around 3,000 Muslims attend weekly. But Ibrahim also did not rule out the possibility of confrontation, and called on government for help. “Let them come, then what will happen will happen.”
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