http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/02/yonge-dundas-smackdown What constitutes a physical assault in Toronto these days? AUGUST 8, 2011
“The details: I was at Yonge-Dundas Square with my nine-year-old son. We ate pizza. We drank bubble tea. And I used my new Canon camera to take photos of this neon shrine.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.
It was surreal. Was I in Toronto — or Riyadh?”