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Here is what is arguable. Whether U.S. President Donald Trump should have authorized a drone attack that took out terrorist Qassem Soleimani, whether it should have been done while Soleimani was in Iraq and of course, what the fallout might be.

Here is what is not arguable. Soleimani was a terrorist and supporting, lauding and mourning him is quite simply support of terrorism.

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One would hope that an outpouring of support for Soleimani would happen only in Iraq, perhaps in some other Middle Eastern location full of anti-American, anti-Western religious fanatics, but not in the streets of Canadian cities.

Shockingly, one would hope in vain.

The Edmonton Journal wrote, “Supporters of an Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike rallied in front of the Alberta legislature Sunday night.”

“Several lit candles and placed them in front of a framed photo of Gen. Qassem Soleimani,” the paper reported.