Hamilton Hoax in play day before Dead Soldier’s funeral

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Is self-described YouTube “filmmaker” Omar Albach,whose ‘social experiment’  going viral today over the Internet and whose story is being picked up by major television networks in both Canada and the U.S., a Palestinian propagandist at heart?

Albach, who with two other filmmakers contrived a scenario in Hamilton, hometown of murdered War Memorial Honour Guard Corporal Nathan Cirillo,and posted it on the Internet one day before Cirillo’s funeral, is the same filmmaker who posted a July 22, 2014 YouTube of two little girls, one wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, holding ‘Hug a Terrorist’ signs in downtown Toronto.

“For the past two weeks Israel has been killing terrorists just like the ones standing next to me.” “These two girls will be holding up this sign to see how people will react when they are labelled this way,”  Albach states in the beginning of his ‘Hug a Terrorist’ YouTube.  

Albach, a self-described resident of Mississauga, couldn’t wait until after the Cirillo funeral led by his 5-year-old son Marco, to conduct his ‘social experiment’?

‘This is what happens to racists in Canada…Filmmaker left bleeding after playing role of Islamophobe in ‘social experiment’, Britain’s Daily Mail headlines trumpet from today’s front page.

“This is based on the events that happened in Ottawa,’ said Albach, referring to recent bloodshed in the Canadian capital.

‘We’re going to see if people feel safe to be around Muslims or people that look like Muslims.’ (Daily Mail, Oct. 28, 2014)

How can a handful of people at a bus stop in Hamilton Ontario, tricked into believing that a man dressed in Muslim clothes, but was in reality a filmmaker be based on “the events that happened in Ottawa”?

“There was no shortage of people willing to stand up to racism and bullying.  Eventually the filmmaker playing (the) part of the racist got punched in the face.” (Daily Mail)

And there in the picture is the proof of the sucker punch, an unidentified filmmaker with a visibly bleeding nose.

It all went down at a bus stop complete with a filmmaker turned out in Muslim-style clothes.

The Daily Mail conclusion is that “a video experiment has shown most urban Canadians will leap to the defence of a Muslim person singled out for abuse even in the wake of the country’s recent Islamist terror attack.”

Yet no one in the video was told that the filmmakers were trying to prove a connection between their video shoot and Ottawa events. Never were they informed they were innocently taking part in a hoax, if those shown in the video really were random citizens.

“Within seconds of the filmmakers beginning their first charade - which involved a one (sic) telling another one wearing Muslim-style clothes he can’t board a bus - a middle-aged man objects to the apparent racism. (Daily Mail, Oct. 28, 2014)

‘You know what? You can’t stereotype and judge people by their clothes,’ the casually dressed, silver-haired white man objects. ‘Or their nationalities or anything else, you know what I mean?’

Unfortunately, many folk know exactly what this could-be actor means.

“The filmmakers repeat their play in several different locations, to get a range of responses. Although the footage is edited and not continuous, it seems they found difficulty finding anyone to go along with the racist behaviour.
“Asked to think of the recent shooting of Corporal Nathan Cirillo at Canada’s national war memorial, a woman responds: ‘It was awful and tragic, but I don’t think that’s any reason to persecute some just because of what they’re wearing.’
“Asked to think of the recent shooting of Corporal Nathan Cirillo at Canada’s national war memorial?”  Most Canadians did not have to be asked to think about it, but were in deep mourning on the very day the video was shot.
“The video, published yesterday, has already attracted nearly 200,000 views and a storm of comment. The location was poignant, Hamilton is the hometown of Corporal Cirillo and it was today the emotional scene of his funeral procession, led by his five-year-old son Marco. (Daily Mail)
“Burnishing Canada’s credentials as a tolerant, multicultural nation, the video shows Canadians of a range of ethnicities and walks of life objecting to vocal racism and Islamophobia.
“Finally, a hot-headed man in a baseball cap decides he’s had enough of the haranguing being dished out to the Muslim man.
“He sneaks up next to the ‘racist’ and sucker punches him in the face.
“Speaking to camera, the man who played the role of the racist concluded: ‘So err.. the social experiment had a negative ending to it but, you know what? It’s positive because he stood up for him and I appreciate that.
‘It’s good.’

Someone should enlighten Omar Albach and Company that propaganda, especially when carried by the mainstream media, is anything but “good”.