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Hate crimes against Muslims double in Canada
By Emma Paling | The Huffington Post Canada
April 14, 2016
Police-reported hate crimes against Muslim Canadians have more than doubled in the past three years, Global News reported Wednesday. There were 99 religiously-motivated hate crimes against Muslims in Canada in 2014, up from only 45 in 2012.
“Year after year we’re seeing a significant increase,” Amira Elghawaby, the communications director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), told The Huffington Post Canada. The country is in a “ramp-up phase” of these types of crimes, she said.
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Hate crimes against Muslim-Canadians more than doubled in 3 years
By Anna Mehler Paperny
Senior Producer, Global News | April 13, 2016
The number of police-reported hate crimes targeting Muslim-Canadians more than doubled over a three-year period — even as the total number of hate crimes dropped.
In 2014, police forces across the country recorded 99 religiously motivated hate crimes against Muslims — up from 45 in 2012.
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The National Council of Canadian Muslims has been swamped with reports of Islamophobic hate crimes: Four in one day this week, says spokesperson Amira Elghawaby — and they’re investigating a ...
‘It’s not him’: Questions raised about mental health of Canadian military stabbing suspect
By Tamara Khandaker
VICE News Canada | March 15, 2016
The suspect who allegedly cited Allah during a double stabbing at a Toronto military recruitment center was a calm and religious person, according to one friend, who said Ayanle Hassan Ali struggled to cope with an ill mother, and would only leave home to get groceries or go to a mosque.
"I don't know what his mom was diagnosed with, but she was pretty sick," Amolak Grewal told VICE News in an interview, hours after Ali, 27, was charged in a violent attack that injured two Canadian soldiers on Monday.
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U.S. Olympian who wears hijab offers riposte to Trump
By: Patty Winsa, News reporter
Toronto Star | March 15, 2016
When fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad goes to the Rio Games this summer she will make history as the first U.S. Olympian to compete wearing a hijab.
But as she blazes a path on the world stage, she is worried about her security — at home. She fears it is being compromised by presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
“When you incite hateful speech and rhetoric like that, the people who say it never think about the repercussions and how that affects ...
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Islamophobia hotline to help victims launched by B.C. legal groups, lawyers
By MARK HUME
The Globe and Mail | March 9, 2016
It’s a phone they hope never rings, but the B.C. organizers of the first Islamophobia hotline in Canada know it’s only a matter of time before it does.
Hasan Alam, a Vancouver lawyer who helped set up the service that launched Wednesday, said it’s needed because of an increase of anti-Muslim incidents across the country.
He said the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) has reported “at least 20 incidences of hate crimes against Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims” in recent months. “Just ...
B.C. legal groups and lawyers set up hotline to help victimized Muslims
Camille Bains, The Canadian Press
CTV News | March 9, 2016
VANCOUVER - Legal groups and lawyers in Vancouver have banded together to launch a hotline for Muslims who have faced discrimination in British Columbia because of their religion.
The Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline is supported by various organizations including the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association and groups that represent black, Asian and South Asian lawyers.
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Amira Elghawaby, a spokeswoman for the National Council of Canadian Muslims, ...
The Star now says ‘Daesh’ instead of ‘the Islamic State’ or ISIS
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter
Toronto Star | March 3, 2016
Everyone knows Al Qaeda, but most people have forgotten it means “the base.” Boko Haram, which kills and kidnaps schoolchildren, means, unsurprisingly, “Western education is forbidden.”
But the term that makes politicians, pundits and journalists slap their foreheads is Islamic State — or the awkward acronyms ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) or ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.)
That’s because the criminal gang that has murdered, raped and pillaged its way across the ...
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Women pack City Hall for Ottawa Hijab Solidarity Day
Ottawa SUN | February 26, 2016
Women from various religions, ethnicities and backgrounds crammed a small room for Ottawa Hijab Solidarity Day on Thursday night.
The event at City Hall attracted more than 100 people, brothers and sisters alike, to talk about the women behind the scarves.
And talk they did, no one more so than Roua Alijed, who silenced the room with a spoken word poem about the role Islamaphobia played in forming her idea of gender.
“I have been fighting for the right to my body since the doctor declared: female,” she said to end her piece ...