“Canada: Masked pro-Palestinian protesters deface Maharaja Ranjit Singh statue in Brampton, spark outrage”, Opindia, September 28, 2024:
“On 28th September, a video of masked pro-Palestinian protesters surfaced on social media from Brampton, Canada, where they were seen defacing the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire. The social media user Leviathan, who published the video, identified the person defacing the statue as Hosaam Hamdan, who has a history of defacing statues of cultural significance.
In a post on X, the user wrote, “Frequently masked protester Hosaam Hamdan defacing a statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Brampton, a massive insult to the Sikh community as he is the first Maharaja & founder of the Sikh Empire. Hosaam Hamdan has a history of defacing statues of cultural significance, so this should not be observed as a 1-off instance.”
Sharing the video, senior correspondent for the National Telegraph, Daniel Bordman, wrote, “Jihadists in Brampton, Canada attack and deface a statue of Ranjit Singh. Ranjit Singh was the father of the Sikh Empire, the last man to successfully hold Afghanistan and generally loved by all in South Asia. This isn’t about Israel or Palestine, it’s about the destruction of everything that is not part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview……”
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