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Toronto council candidate’s election sign defaced with words ‘Go Back Home’

On Friday night, Ward 2 city council candidate Munira Abukar got a phone call from a supporter saying that some of her campaign signs had been kicked over and it looked like they had been vandalized....

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Alberta mosque vandalised

The Cold Lake Mosque was vandalized overnight in what local business owners and residents are calling a “disgusting” crime. RCMP Sgt. Troy Hadland said police responded to a call of mischief at 6:30...

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Islamophobia: the ugly side of Toronto’s municipal election

For three Muslim candidates, Toronto’s municipal election took a very nasty turn this week. On Thursday night, a Purolator truck driver allegedly hurled garbage and shouted “terrorist” at a team of...

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Shut down all mosques, former Hérouxville councillor says

One of the authors of Hérouxville’s infamous code of conduct in 2007 is calling for all mosques across the country to be closed temporarily, in reaction to the killings of two Canadian Forces members...

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Canadian actor punched in face after ‘Islamophobia’ experiment goes wrong in...

A social experiment that ended with an actor posing as an Islamophobe getting punched in the face has shown that Canadians are prepared to defend Muslims in the face of overt racist abuse in the wake...

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Why online Islamophobia is difficult to stop

CBC News interviews Imran Awan, deputy director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, and Fiyaz Mughal of Tell MAMA on the rise of anti-Muslim hatred on the internet....

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Police investigate vandalism at Ottawa mosque

A rock-hurling man smashed windows at a south Ottawa mosque early Friday in an act of vandalism that the vice-president of the mosque suspects is a hate crime. Surveillance video at the Assunnah...

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Muslim groups disheartened by Canadian PM’s silence on anti-Muslim backlash

Muslim groups are disappointed that Stephen Harper hasn’t spoken out against a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes since two separate attacks by jihadist sympathizers left two Canadian soldiers dead last...

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Quebec City mosques targeted by anti‑Muslim posters

Three Quebec City mosques were the target of xenophobic messages over the weekend. Signs reading “Islam hors de chez moi” – Islam out of my country – were posted on each of the mosques’ front doors. A...

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Canada: Senators challenge commentator who blames imams for spread of Islamism

Most mosques in Canada are “incubators of Islamism,” a controversial Muslim commentator told a startled parliamentary committee Monday, an assertion that was challenged by the panel. “Any legitimacy...

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Toronto council candidate’s election sign defaced with words ‘Go Back Home’

On Friday night, Ward 2 city council candidate Munira Abukar got a phone call from a supporter saying that some of her campaign signs had been kicked over and it looked like they had been vandalized....

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Alberta mosque vandalised

The Cold Lake Mosque was vandalized overnight in what local business owners and residents are calling a “disgusting” crime. RCMP Sgt. Troy Hadland said police responded to a call of mischief at 6:30...

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Islamophobia: the ugly side of Toronto’s municipal election

For three Muslim candidates, Toronto’s municipal election took a very nasty turn this week. On Thursday night, a Purolator truck driver allegedly hurled garbage and shouted “terrorist” at a team of...

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Shut down all mosques, former Hérouxville councillor says

One of the authors of Hérouxville’s infamous code of conduct in 2007 is calling for all mosques across the country to be closed temporarily, in reaction to the killings of two Canadian Forces members...

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Canadian actor punched in face after ‘Islamophobia’ experiment goes wrong in...

A social experiment that ended with an actor posing as an Islamophobe getting punched in the face has shown that Canadians are prepared to defend Muslims in the face of overt racist abuse in the wake...

View Article


Why online Islamophobia is difficult to stop

CBC News interviews Imran Awan, deputy director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, and Fiyaz Mughal of Tell MAMA on the rise of anti-Muslim hatred on the internet....

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Police investigate vandalism at Ottawa mosque

A rock-hurling man smashed windows at a south Ottawa mosque early Friday in an act of vandalism that the vice-president of the mosque suspects is a hate crime. Surveillance video at the Assunnah...

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Muslim groups disheartened by Canadian PM’s silence on anti-Muslim backlash

Muslim groups are disappointed that Stephen Harper hasn’t spoken out against a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes since two separate attacks by jihadist sympathizers left two Canadian soldiers dead last...

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Quebec City mosques targeted by anti‑Muslim posters

Three Quebec City mosques were the target of xenophobic messages over the weekend. Signs reading “Islam hors de chez moi” – Islam out of my country – were posted on each of the mosques’ front doors. A...

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Canada: Senators challenge commentator who blames imams for spread of Islamism

Most mosques in Canada are “incubators of Islamism,” a controversial Muslim commentator told a startled parliamentary committee Monday, an assertion that was challenged by the panel. “Any legitimacy...

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