Muslim Woman Punches Photographer Claiming He Violated Her Religion

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" By Carlos Miller -...

Claiming that her religious rights had been violated, a Muslim woman punched a man in the face after he had photographed her on a busy Toronto intersection.

The photographer was David Menzies, a popular columnist in Canada who mostly writes about cars.

He said he was with his nine-year-old son testing out a new camera in Yonge-Dundas Square, a bustling, neon-saturated intersection known as Toronto’s Times Square, when she became enraged.

This is how he explained it in a Toronto Sun column:


Suddenly, a woman wearing a hijab ran toward me. She was part of a group that included two women wearing full face-covering burkas. She was screaming: “We are Muslim! You do not take pictures of us!” (Odd. I can’t find the “no photos” rule in the Qur’an.)

I informed the lady I was in a public square in a democracy. I can actually take pictures of whomever I please.

And then: Ka-pow! Her fist collided with my face. Worse, she almost knocked my new camera from my hands.

My son and I were then surrounded by a mob of about 20 people, many of whom were speaking Arabic. One kept demanding I surrender my camera to him.



Menzies said he spotted a group of police officers, so he ran towards them, telling them he wanted to file assault charges against the woman.

He even had witnesses, a couple from Syria who understood Arabic.

But the cops refused to arrest her.

The officer interrogated the woman. She was still hysterical. Good. The constable would encounter firsthand what I had been forced to deal with earlier.

The cop walked back to me. No charges would be laid, he said, because he believed the woman’s story — namely, she was merely trying to knock the camera out of my hands.

Menzies was flabbergasted that police would not file charges. They probably didn’t want to file a report."