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Trudeau condemns pepper spray attack at Vancouver event for Syrian refugees
By Rafferty Baker & Karin Larsen
CBC News | January 9, 2016
A crowd of refugees attending a welcome event at the Muslim Association of Canada Centre in Vancouver was pepper sprayed by an unknown man on a bicycle.
It happened outside the centre on the Kingsway near Victoria Drive around 10:30 p.m. as the event was winding down and the group of newcomers to Canada was waiting for a bus.
This incident drew condemnation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
"This isn't who we are," Trudeau said in a tweet. Robertson, also on ...
Anger grows over children caught in no-fly lists
CTV News | January 5, 2016
Six-year-old Canadian Syed Adam Ahmed garnered national attention when he needed special security clearance to fly to Boston for the NHL Winter Classic -- but he’s far from the only child to be mistakenly caught in a “no-fly list.”
Sheldon Ali says his son, Naseer Muhammad, was held up before flying for the first time when he was only 10 weeks old.
"We know it is going to happen every time," said Ali. Repeated incidents have led Ali to believe that his son has been targeted because of his religion and ethnic background.
"My ...
Organization puts callout for Canadians affected by no-fly lists
The National Council of Canadian Muslims announced it was collecting data on Canadians who have been “unfairly targeted or placed on no-fly lists”
By Verity Stevenson
Toronto Star | January 5, 2016
An organization advocating for Muslim Canadians has made a callout for people with similar experiences to that of a 6-year-old Markham boy, whose parents were told their son is on a government watch list.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims announced it was collecting data on Canadians who have been “unfairly targeted or placed on no-fly lists and for them ...
Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim attack: cut him off, or give him enough rope?
CBC News | December 10, 2015
He's a man who loves to stir up controversy, but this week Donald Trump outdid himself.
The business mogul turned Republican presidential hopeful vowed that if he's elected, he will ban Muslims from entering the United States. It was in response to a mass shooting by a couple in California who are believed to have been radicalized.
Democrats and Republicans alike have condemned Trump's anti-Muslim position, but Trump says he's just telling it like it is.
Which raises an interesting question: Is it better to put these views out in ...
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Paris attacks backlash ‘nothing new,’ Canadian Muslims say, but public also supportive
Muslims are speaking out about Islamophobia, but also find encouraging signs of support
By Shanifa Nasser | CBC News
November 24, 2015
Idil Abdulkadir is used to explaining complicated equations in the classroom. But in an open letter to Muslim students following the Paris attacks, the Ottawa high school teacher felt compelled to share a different and personal lesson.
"After tragedies like the one in Paris, the world erupts in fear," wrote Abdulkadir in the letter published online Thursday. "The strangers who think we are monsters cannot be convinced otherwise. ...
Paris attacks spark anti-Muslim backlash, but Canadians are fighting back
'The terrorists want us to hate one another,' says National Council of Canadian Muslims spokeswoman
By Sheena Goodyear | CBC News
November 22, 2015
Since the deadly attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris, there have been a number of unexpectedly violent and severe incidents targeting Muslims in Canada.
A mosque in Peterborough, Ont., was set on fire in a suspected hate crime. A Muslim woman was attacked and beaten near an elementary school in Toronto. And a Montreal man was arrested for posting a video wearing a Joker-type mask and threatening to kill one Arab ...
Muslim woman told to ‘go back home’ in note found in mailbox
Ottawa police step up patrols where large groups of people congregate
CBC News | November 19, 2015
A Muslim woman in Ottawa plans to call police after she found a handwritten note in her mailbox telling her "Canada is no place for terrorists or immigrants."
Eren Cervantes-Altamirano said she discovered the handwritten note in her mailbox on Wednesday, which told her to "go back home."
Cervantes-Altamirano, who was born in Mexico, converted to Islam six years ago and writes for some Muslim blogs.
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Amira Elghawaby, a spokeswoman for the National ...
Montreal police nab man who treatened to kill Muslims in Quebec
By Levon Sevunts | Radio-Canada International
November 18, 2015
A 24-year-old man is expected to appear in court in Montreal on Wednesday afternoon to face several charges for allegedly threatening to kill Arabs and Muslims in Quebec.
He is expected to be charged with uttering threats, public incitement of hatred and a terrorism hoax, Montreal police spokesman Cst. André Leclerc told Radio Canada International.
The threats were made in a Youtube video showing a man wearing a Halloween mask of The Joker, the psychotic killer in the popular Hollywood blockbusters ...
‘Frightening’ attacks leave Ontario Muslims shaken
As police investigate possible hate crime, Muslim women worry about future intimidation
CBC News | November 17, 2015
Muslims in Toronto say a string of potential hate crimes that have struck southern Ontario in the days following the horrific Paris attacks are unacceptable in Canada.
On Monday, Toronto police said a Muslim woman reported she was attacked from behind while picking up her children from school and beaten by two white men who called her a "terrorist."
The attack comes after a mosque in Peterborough was badly damaged by a fire that appears to have ...