An Ontario journalist was beaten up and threatened with death this week in what is being called a revenge attack for publishing articles critical of a Pakistan-based Muslim group, the Toronto Star reported.Jawaad Faizi, 35, was pulling into the driveway of his editor’s Mississauga home on Tuesday night when a car pulled up behind him. He had not yet turned off the engine or taken off his seatbelt when he heard the sound of a blast. Before he knew what it was, the sound came again – this time it was his front windshield being smashed.
“Three men began assaulting him with bats and yelling Punjabi profanities at him,” he said. “When the assailants saw me calling 911, they fled,” he added. Faizi, who worked as a journalist in Pakistan before coming to Canada in 2002, has been writing columns for the Pakistan Post, a Mississauga newspaper, for more than two years. “It was Idara Minhaj-ul-Quran,” Faizi said in an interview yesterday. “(Attackers) were asking why you publish news about our leader,” he said.