Kurdish superstar gets rude welcome to Canada
August 18, 2009 by admin
Filed under Police State
TORONTO — “We were just filming Canada’s countryside and then there were guns everywhere” — Kurdish entertainment legend Sivan Perwer.
Kurdish Torontonians trying to make a good impression on their community’s most famous singer certainly did not have an armed OPP takedown in mind.
But that is exactly what happened Sunday night on Hwy. 427 as the crew filming a cultural star for Kurdish TV was mistaken for a pack of armed and dangerous men in a black Hummer.
What resulted was akin to a movie scene.
The only problem was it was real — and the only guns were the ones drawn by police.
In the end it was a misunderstanding. To compound matters there were also language issues at play — since English was not the first language of anyone in the vehicle.
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