How do you take your anti-bigotry? Sunny-side-up?

Open-face maybe, eggplant smushed on flatbread straight from the oven.

Thick and sweet, like Turkish coffee in dainty demitasses.

When the shutters rolled up Friday morning at Soufi’s café, windows flung open, the sunshine poured in.

So did the bonhomie.

Back in business and bustling.

Brooke Lydbrooke, who once taught many immigrant children at a local elementary school, was first in line to be served, just as she had been two years ago when Soufi’s hung out its shingle on Queen Street West, the stretch of the east-west artery funkier than the self-absorbed cool further towards Spadina.

“I thought I would never come in here again,” said Lydbrooke, setting down her cane. “That first time, I made a little video that I gave the family to remember the day.”

Even invited the son of the establishment’s owners, Syrian immigrants, to her apartment, just around the corner. Because they’re neighbours, like.

It was that sense of neighbourliness, a tight-knit community, which was so injured when it was discovered that Husam and Shahnaz Al-Soufi had decided to roll up their modest, yet flourishing, establishment, such was their alarm over social media doxxing, a tidal wave of hate messages, death threats. He feared for the safety of his family and his staff.

The hard-core hateful, the inchoate embittered, have a knack for spinning their bile large, certainly way out of proportion to their identifiable ranks, their pathetic little cadres of structured odium. Which is why we should all be very careful about granting them the force multiplier amplitude that is both social and legacy media. By cherry-picking the most repugnant of incidents — among these, there’s a racist screed in a supermarket parking lot; a flick of a girl’s hijab; a gym harassed for its LGBTQ clientele; the baiting of estheticians who won’t provide Brazilians to a mischief-making trans with male genitalia, and a Toronto café bullied nearly into extinction — and inflating those episodes into some kind of meta social collapse.

That isn’t us.

This isn’t us. We’re not nativists by nature, unlike a broad swath of our rabble-rousing neighbours to the south and the president who stokes their spleen and their xenophobia.

So put a sock in the hysteria!

Exploiting the Al-Soufis is almost as bad as tormenting them into submission.

Indeed, we could take a cue from how the family is now managing its ordeal — with a lot of help from friends and strangers, with a spirit of goodwill.

Husam Al-Soufi was too shy to emerge from the back of his café yesterday. He’s spoken publicly only once, on Thursday, at a press conference where it was announced Soufi’s would reopen. He apologized again for his eldest son’s involvement at a protest outside a Sept. 29 Hamilton fundraiser for the People’s Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier.

Alaa Al-Soufi was identified as being among the Antifa masked demonstrators. But there’s nothing that he, specifically, or his family should apologize for. There is zero evidence that Alaa was in any way party to the verbal abuse directed at an 81-year-old woman, Dorothy Marston, using a walker, who was blocked from entering the event, some calling her “Nazi scum.”

Which only proves that the frothing left can be just as obnoxious as the bilious right, albeit swathed in righteous virtue.

In fact, they’re not equivalent as festering social pustules — “bad people” on “both sides,” as President Donald Trump stupidly described the clashing violence in Charlottesville, Virginia; most domestic terrorism-related charges in the U.S. this year have been tied to white supremacy.

Marston’s son, David Turkoski, is not so sure that Alaa was uninvolved in the incident. He’d rather leave that matter to police investigators. But he certainly has no animosity towards the young man’s parents and holds them in no way accountable.

Turkoski was appalled by the abuse the Al-Soufis have absorbed and the threat to their livelihood.

“I have a 22-year-old son, myself, and I hope he has the common sense not to attack an 81-year-old woman in a walker. My mother has already had two strokes. She’s still pretty shook up.

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“But none of this has anything to do with (Alaa’s) father,” Turkoski told the Star on Friday. “He didn’t do anything to my mother. I feel bad for him. I hope his business prospers.”

Turkoski spoke directly with Husam Al-Soufi on Thursday and had hoped to attend the café’s reopening Friday. Couldn’t make it but he intends to get there by and by.

Turkoski said his mother, whom he described as “well left of centre’’ politically, had attended the event out of curiosity, not because she’s a supporter of the People’s Party of Canada. Nor does he, Turkoski, have any problem with demonstrating against Bernier. “It’s freedom of speech, isn’t it? They want to protest. They want to hand out flyers. That’s fine. But don’t intimidate a little old lady!”

Out of this whole mess, much good has surfaced.

That is apparent in the dozens of supportive and kind emails that have been posted on the wall inside the café, in the queue of customers outside, how keen they were to show that — the phrase is oft repeated — “love conquers hate.”

And, in no small part, this was also the doing of Mohamed Fakih, a Lebanese-Canadian who arrived on our shores with almost nothing two decades ago and is CEO of Paramount Fine Foods, which now operates 70 restaurants around the world, employing some 2,000 people.

It was Fakih who took matters into his own hands, corralling Soufi’s employees back to their jobs, getting the café back up and running, deploying his own staff to re-open the premises.

Lessons are always learned. We were all depressed and now there’s joy.

“We’re all very happy to be here and to reopen, ready to serve food to everyone. What’s most important is that they didn’t lose their business. The staff regained their jobs, that’s also why I got involved. Most important, we need to send a very strong message that hate will never win in Canada. Especially in Toronto. We don’t want the message getting out that businesses are shutting down in the city. That’s the bottom line for me. I’m a job-creator. And these people should not lose their jobs because of hate or intimidation.

“This is not my business. But it is my business, the well-being of this great city, the city that supported me when I came here with $1,200 in my pocket.

“Now it’s my business to give back to the community.

“Not only Soufi’s, but every business that is subject to hate or intimidation.

“What are we saying to the rest of the world? What are we saying to the immigrants who came here looking forward to building a better life for themselves and their families?

“That Toronto is open, welcoming for business, and we will defend everyone who wants to build a life here. And especially to contribute. Newcomers come and open businesses and hire staff and become taxpayers.”

Okay, we’ll take some of that savory manaeesh now.