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Firebrand speaker triggers ban bid

posted May 22, 2011, 10:13 PM by Milorad Borota
Fearful of anti-Semitic incitement
By: Carol Sanders Posted: 05/21/2011 1:00 AM
A group of Eritrean refugees and the B'nai Brith are urging Ottawa and a Winnipeg community group to ban an incendiary advocate of the Eritrean government from ever speaking in Canada again.

"We got to be like Jews but don't be evil like them; don't blow up people; don't do things that are evil, absolutely that is our job," Sophia Tesfamariam urged an Eritrean Community in Winnipeg Inc., audience on Oct. 2, 2010. B'nai Brith Canada obtained a recording of her speech from outraged members of the Eritrean community who fled the "brutal" regime they compare to North Korea

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