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....
View ArticleAlberta 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...
View ArticleIslamophobia: 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...
View ArticleShut 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...
View ArticleCanadian 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 ArticleWhy 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....
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleMuslim 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...
View ArticleQuebec 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...
View ArticleCanada: 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...
View ArticleToronto 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....
View ArticleAlberta 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...
View ArticleIslamophobia: 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...
View ArticleShut 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...
View ArticleCanadian 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 ArticleWhy 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....
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleMuslim 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...
View ArticleQuebec 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...
View ArticleCanada: 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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