Clearly the Catholic Church needs to ramp up the “dialogue” in Mississauga. That will fix this problem right up. Yes, that “dialogue” will make young Muslims like Iqbal Hessan forget all about the hadith in which Muhammad is depicted as saying, “Do not leave any image without defacing it or any built-up grave without leveling it” (Sahih Muslim 969).
“Police make arrest in suspected hate crime at Mississauga Catholic church,” by Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register, May 26, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. – A 22-year-old Mississauga man has been charged in connection with alleged hate crimes committed at St. Catherine of Siena Church and its neighbouring elementary school over the past two months.
Iqbal Hessan was reportedly arrested in the early hours of May 26 on the Mississauga school’s grounds, though police would not confirm this. Hessan faces five counts of mischief over $5,000, and break, enter and commit indictable offence. A bail hearing was held later that day.
On May 20, the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue that stands in front of the church was covered in black paint and the fingers of its outstretched arms were broken off. Behind the church, graffiti with the words “There is no Jew God” was scrawled across the brick wall along with a drawing of a face labelled “Jewsus.”
It was the third time the church has been targeted. On April 9, surveillance footage caught a young man breaking into the church, ripping pages of the Sacramentary book on the altar and throwing them at the tabernacle. He is then seen stealing one of the church’s amplifier speakers.
On May 17, a drawing of a hand gesturing with the middle finger was found spray painted on the front steps of the church. And on May 25, graffiti was sprayed on the school walls.
But out of the vandalism has come a new sense of community. When news spread, the parish community and its neighbours began working together to get the church back to its original shape.
Michelle Medeiros was driving down Hurontario Street on May 21 when she noticed the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue marked with black paint. She stopped, took photos of the damage and posted them on Facebook.
“We try to share it as much as we can so that people know we can’t be quiet about this,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a mosque. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Catholic church… It doesn’t matter anything. This is somebody else’s faith and we shouldn’t destroy it because it’s not right.”…
The Archdiocese of Toronto sent a notice on May 21 reminding parishes to stay vigilant and to exercise proper safety precautions.
And ramp up that “dialogue,” fellas!
Angemon says
Let’s be honest here: if a Christian had perpetrated such an act on a mosque he probably wouldn’t be facing those charges. There would likely be some sort of “aggravated religiously-motivated hate” thrown in somewhere, and the leftist media would be jumping on it as evidence that all religions have “extremists” and therefore we mustn’t be hasty when judging what the islamic state, and many thousands, if not millions, of muslims worldwide are doing.
BW022 says
Actually, those are just about the strongest charges one could face for this. Mischief (for the vandalism) is the likely change. The five counts and the break and enter, show a rather deliberate attempt to pile on more serious charges. The break and enter has a ten year maximum as does each of the mischief charges.
There is no ‘religiously motivated hate’ type crime in Canada — other than specific causes of advocating genocide, and incitement which do not apply here. Otherwise, ‘hate’ motivations can come up during any crime and go towards sentencing.
The nature and piling on of charges, publicity, amount of damage, school, and community outrage are such that (if convicted) this guy isn’t going to avoid any summary conviction. He is almost certain of jail time on this, plus a likely lengthy parole. For vandalism… this is extremely rare.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Thank you, BW022, for your knowledgeable reply.
I wonder about the wording of the sentence “Hessan faces five counts of mischief over $5,000, and break, enter and commit indictable offence.”
I can’t parse this. For one thing, “break, enter and commit” seems like three verbs, but are used as nouns. Is this just a misprint, or a peculiarity of Ontario legal wording? And “commit [an?] indictable offence” seems like a crime without a content; why does the offense go unnamed?
BW022 says
In Canada, criminal offenses are either punishable by summary sentence (i.e. minor crimes with a typical maximum of six months in jail) and indictable offenses (serious crimes with typically multi-year maximums). The two categories have serious consequences for parole, record suspensions (pardons), youth offenders, etc. It is similar to US felonies and misdemeanors.
Break and enter under the Criminal Code is “Breaking and entering with intent, committing offence or breaking out”. The qualifiers are what separates it from simple trespassing. It separates entering someone’s property for committing serious offenses (indictable offenses such as assault, vandalism over $5,000, robbery, theft, etc.) and entering someone’s property for a non-offense or minor offense (TP’ing their house, putting signs on their home, or just a short-cut through their property) — which would be trespassing.
The offense need not be named. In this case, is it mischief over $5,000. You don’t actually need to commit an offense… if you break into a house with the intent do rope it (and don’t find anything to take), it is still breaking an entering.
All criminal offenses in Canada are federal and apply throughout the country. In this case, the Criminal Code of Canada. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-174.html#h-99
In any case, they’ve piled the charges on. The five mischief likely to ensure that at least one sticks and the breaking and entering to pile on the jail time. Canada typically doesn’t have consecutive sentencing, but parole time often is. With six indictable offenses… good chance he’ll see a fairly harsh sentence — say five years. And of course… having multiple indictable offenses will make getting a early parole, pardons, travel outside Canada, finding work, etc. extremely difficult or impossible.
Daniel Risler says
Blasphemous Libel is a crime under section 296, section 2 of the Criminal Code of Canada. This law is still enforceable. Max penalty is 2 years prison.
Marco says
A Christian or other non muslim would be facing criminal charges.
BW022 says
These are criminal charges. Five counts of mischief over $5,000 and one count of breaking and entering with intent. All are indictable offenses under the Criminal Code of Canada. Each carries a ten year maximum sentence. Given it’s nature, school nearby, number of offenses, publicity, public outcry, etc. it is highly likely he will be spending years in jail, a decade or more on parole, life time criminal records, inability to hold certain jobs, inability to travel to most countries, tens of thousands in legal fees, etc.
A non-Muslim would get the same charges. There isn’t anything more one can legally pile on in this case.
community organizer says
He should be hanged without merci!
bobm says
Look to the Lamb…The Son of God.. the Alpha and Omega.. He shall not tarry; fear not what man can do but fear God… Jesus is Lord… the end for islam is written… it is terrible …. islam = antichrist.. a loser in every sense…seek the Lord …. whilst you may.
torvm33 says
@Angemon: no faithful Christian would even consider defacing another beliefs symbols and if they did I should expect the law to be applied. Your post is confusing as well
MissyT says
Shameful as it is, the media will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear because well, then the narrative they’ve been spewing won’t be validated. The media will reap what they sow. Critical thinking skills are no longer appreciated nor encouraged; all act and get in lock step with the media and the politically correct. Today, the statue, tomorrow it will be you because you said something that was “hateful’ and well you have to be ‘corrected’. This guy will be let off with a slap. Talk about extremists…look to what the extreme muslims do to people…they BEHEAD them – WOMEN, CHILDREN, GAYS. They cut off hands, berate and beat women, abuse children…and this the media and clerics push back by telling the populace that it is the victims’ fault because they did this or that. How do the peaceful muslims not stand up and speak out against the unforgivable?
mortimer says
Agree. Things will have to become worse before the majority reacts. Do we have time? The Libtarded cultural Marxists are a willfully ignorant group in Canada.
Iqbal Hessan’s act reminds me of Koran 8.12 “Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their FINGERTIPS OFF OF THEM.”
This is a warning to Christians…first the statue is mutilated, then Christians.
celtic warriarcanada says
I agree Mortimer ! Keeps getting to close to home all the time . P.S. Please For give me for being such a dick to you on Friday evening . Sometimes my heart gets ahead of my Mind ! Especially when it comes to the atrocities carried out by the Followers of THE Pedophile . I read your comments quite often, and usually agree with you !
Renee says
Climate Change?
Champ says
😀
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
THIS IS what Muslims do to the Religious Edifices, of ANY Faith or Belief that is NOT 100% Islam, in the name of THEIR so called “Religion”, which is really NOT a “Religion”, and is not solely confined to a belief system.
If Islam is a religion it is not a religion only. Islam is a total system of life and contains within itself a particular social system, judicial system, and political system which includes geo-political aspirations – the conquest and administration of territory.
If the name “Religion” can be applied at all to Islam, it would be the “Religion of Hate”, and NOT the “Religion of Peace”.
As Muslim Leaders say in their OWN Words, such as “ISIS Leader: Islam Is A Religion Of War, Not A Religion Of Peace”, such as in the Words of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al_Baghdadi, et. al.
HOWEVER Islam wants to Viciously Attack ANY “Infidel” that takes similar actions, with any of THEIR Edifices and Symbols, and even “Blasphemes” (with the DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Islam), THEIR so called “Religion”, OR THEIR so called “Prophet” Muhammed, OR THEIR so called “Holy Book” the Qur’an, with World Wide FORCED “Blasphemy Laws”, and “Criminal Penalties”.
In ADDITION Islam, REFUSES to abide by the Laws of ANY Not 100% Islamic Country, insisting that the Qur’an and Sharia Law IS Supreme, over even the United States Constitution, which IS the SUPREME Law of the Land in Ametrica.
andy says
Muslims want to take over the world. Everything is to be under Islamic law ( what law)….These Muslims who commit murder, rape-women and children, behead, crucify, steal, lie, cheat, is all written in so called Koran. It also states to kill Jews and Christians, etc… They actually worship Satan.. look in the Koran under Juni, I think the chapter is called. They do genital mutilation on young girls and women. In Africa alone, 3 million suffer from this.
All this is in their blood, in their head….and it will never Change. Since its Inception of Islam, they have killed nearly 300 millions Christians. THAT IS TOTAL GENOCIDE.
mortimer says
Iqbal Hessan is practicing his religion.
Doesn’t he have freedom of religion? Or is that SUPREMACISM of religion? The MASTER RELIGION!
miriamrove says
The Archdiocese of Toronto sent a notice on May 21 reminding parishes to stay vigilant and to exercise proper safety precautions…..
Instead of them issuing a statement that Islam is at war with us, they are telling people to be careful. What a joke they are. M
Ann Inquirer says
The dhimmi lady does not know that it does matter, if it is a mosk – that is where it is taught to hate other people, their faiths and be a psychopathic clone like Mohammad.
JamesonRocks says
Along with ramping-up the “dialogue,” don’t forget to get everyone at the parish and the local moozie community center a boat load of those “coexist” bumper stickers. Yup, that will do it… Perhaps Bishop 90 Proof can do a consult here…
TH says
Doesn’t Pope Francis think that muslims revere Jesus and the Virgin Mary? I wish he got out of fantasy land and entered into reality.
abad says
If Muslims hate Christians so much then WHY are they in dominantly Christian countries?????
Why don’t they go back home to Syria or Saudi Arabia???
Peggy says
Because those countries have already been conquered by Islam. They are moving on to our countries now.
Wellington says
Because, abad, they want “dominantly Christian countries” to eventually cease being such and for them to become dominantly Muslim countries. Islam lays claim to the entire world, by war if necessary. This is why the Islamic world divides all the real estate on earth between that land where Islam already dominates (dar-al-Islam—–Land of Islam) and where it yet doesn’t but eventually will (dar-al-harb—–Land of War).
When assessing Islam, one should never overlook the complete control-freak aspect of this despicable religion. Overlooking this will disallow a proper and accurate assessment of man’s most intolerant religion of all time, which seeks to control the entire human race and which is possessed of a entitlement mentality like virtually no other ever constructed by man. It’s quite repulsive of course but very much Islamic.
Wellington says
I do wish the print type in the comment section was a bit larger. Being near sighted as I am, I often have to take my glasses off to examine spelling and punctuation and even doing so has still not resulted in my correcting mistakes that would not occur were the print in the comment section larger. Can anything be done about this?
tilda says
Try composing your comment in a word document on your computer, using any size font you like.
Then copy and paste that into the comment box.
Angemon says
Can’t you change the browser font or increase its size?
Huck Folder says
Wellington:
Press [Ctrl] and [+] keys as many times as necessary.
[Ctrl] and [-] to return to original.
somehistory says
And to all those who say *don’t provoke the extremists*…the only *provoking* here was that the church and the statue and the school exist.
And no one has come out in rage to hunt down the perp and his family and his friends and anyone who looks like him and anyone who is not Catholic in order to do bodily harm; and no one has gone to the police station and demanded the perp’s head or that his hands be cut off.
The beast of islam teaches people to behave as wild beasts without conscience and without self-control and without love of what is good and right and respectful of others.
sencit says
Graffiti says ‘There is no Jew God’.
Oh yes there is! One day a Jew will rule the world and muslims will bow down at His feet!
gupa says
news item! free speech failure in Canada!
New problem in Canada this month.
Heritage Canada shuts down free speech / drawing event.
See
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/05/the-islamic-castle-on-parliament-hill/
And
https://youtu.be/HL7ixRrkobM
We cannot afford to lose free speech in Canada.
I am sending this news item to the inboxes for Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.
From (c) 2015 Gates of Vienna:
…aborted attempt to hold a free speech event on International Draw Mohammed Day (May 20) on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. It did not specifically involve Mohammed cartoons — it was officially known as “Draw Whatever You Want”, and referenced prosecutions for illustration depicting the Buddha wearing headphones, and the Pope’s statement about responding violently to anyone who insulted his mother.
Alexandra Belaire, who blogs at Xanthippa’s Chamberpot, was the organizer of the event. At the last minute — less than 24 hours before her event was scheduled to take place — Heritage Canada informed Ms. Belaire that the permit for the event had been denied, due to “security concerns”.
I have a bad feeling about this. If we lose free speech we lose everything.
I have actively supported Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller et al.
We need to support Alexandra Belaire.
I asked her to contact RS and PG directly as well.
KrazyKafir says
And the local Police were baffled by the cause? Or were they? They tried their best to bury the story.
“Why St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Mississauga has been targeted — twice defaced last week, three times since April 19 — is a mystery”
“Indeed, had it not been for local TV stations obtaining disturbing security camera footage, few outside the church’s 3,000-strong congregation would even be aware of what happened. “We didn’t issue a press release,” said a Peel media officer. “We didn’t release the surveillance footage.”
“But why in heavens not? “That’s how we do things here.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/05/24/mississauga-church-defilement-runs-deeper-than-hate.html
duh_swami says
He’s not a criminal, he’s a jihadi. It’s his low level jihad, that could turn into high level jihad. He is supposed to destroy or damage the icons of ‘the other’. That particular aspect of Islam has been on the rise since ISIS started destroying artifacts and looting the museums.
Uncle Vladdi says
What do you mean “jihadis aren’t criminals!?!
ALL muslims are criminals, because they are all members of the crime-gang called “islam” which is only ‘religious’ in that it tells it’s holy-mobster “muslim” gang members to blame “god” for their own criminal desires and actions!
Prince Eugene of Savoy says
Jihad Jeopardy
Islam For $200
The Sphinx, The Mosul Museum And A Statue In Ontario
Alex: Robert Spencer
Robert: What’s Sahih Muslim 969?
________
Get Cardinal Collins @CardCollinsAC to the mosque for some more “dialogue.” Quickly!
Chris Riordan says
I just did a quick search and not one of the major Canadian news outlets covered this story. Would the same be true if it was a mosque?
a says
About three months ago, a statue of the Virgin Mary was defaced at a Catholic church right up the street in Brampton at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Catholic elementary school was also defaced, black spray paint,same MO. Never made the news, never caught the guy.
AtomicB says
About three months ago, a statue of the Virgin Mary was defaced and an elementary school beside the Church of St Mary’s, right up the street from this church in Brampton was vandalized. Black spray paint, obscene images, same M.O. Didn’t make the news, never caught the guy. Also, about three years ago, another Church, St Jerome’s was set on fire in Brampton bordering the city of Mississauga.
Uncle Vladdi says
He shouldn’t have been charged with “hate crimes” simply because no such silly “crime” should be listed in our laws, as all crimes are caused by unreasonable hate.
He should have been charged with ORGANIZED crime, (due to his membership in the islamic crime-gang) and vandalism, conspiracy to commit vandalism, and extortion because it was meant to terrorize the Christians and Jews, (it wasn’t just him kicking over a random fence in a fit of youthful boredom).
Ml says
A Muslim will never stand up,what is not in the Koran,the like you to believe the are on your side,but lying cheating killing,to the infidel is the right thing to to ,it is teacht in the mosque daily
Why whe are AFFRAID A 1400 secret by Dr.bill Warner
Will schow his 30years of study,but whe know by now what those peaceful people to,and whe have to stand,before it is to late,esp.young people
V Ui. says
Clearly multiculturalism is not working. Or is it a one way street. We have to forgive while they can attack and deface.