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Monday is the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia

On January 29, 2017, six worshippers lost their lives at a Québec City mosque. Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzedine Soufiane, and Aboubaker Thabti were fathers, sons, husbands, brothers, and community members. This year will mark the seventh anniversary of that tragic night that changed our

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New mobile app aims to combat rising Islamophobia in Canada

A new mobile app named IMIRT, short for Islamophobia-Motivated Incident Reporting Tool, has been launched to enhance community safety and inclusivity. This initiative follows a worrisome surge in violent Islamophobic events nationwide. Imam Ibrahim Hindy of the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, in collaboration with partners and supported by a grant

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Statement by Minister Hussen on the International Day to Combat Islamophobia

Today, on the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, we stand in solidarity with Muslim communities across Canada and around the world. We reaffirm our commitment to take action to denounce and tackle Islamophobia, hate-fuelled violence, and systemic discrimination whenever and wherever it occurs. Diversity is a fact, but inclusion is

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Two Men found guilty of Anti-Arab hate crime against Muslim family in Mississauga, Ontario

On July 15, 2018, a Muslim family in Mississauga, Ontario was viciously attacked while enjoying a summer evening at their local community center. On January 31st, 2023, the attackers were found guilty of aggravated assault and assault at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Brampton. The judge noted that

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N.L. Muslim community concerned about recent Islamophobic incident in St. John’s

The Muslim community in Newfoundland and Labrador is expressing concern following the physical assault on two visibly Muslim teenagers in May 2022. “While racism and Islamophobia are certainly not as prominent in Newfoundland and Labrador as they are in the rest of Canada, the local incidents of the last few

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Call for NHL to implement a lifelong ban of racist fans in aftermath of attacks on Nazem Kadri

Over the long weekend, while Canadian families from across the country tuned into NHL playoffs, Arab-Muslim-Canadian Colorado Avalanche player, Nazem Kadri, and his family were the subject of fierce anti-Arab-racist and Islamophobic social media posts and death threats, after he was involved in a collision during a game on Saturday

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NCCM denounces Islamophobic incident at TDSB middle school

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is expressing concern about an incident at Charles H. Best Junior Middle School in Toronto’s North York region where a visibly Muslim student was depicted in a Tik Tok featuring a bomb animation next to her face and background music that includes

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Waterloo council votes in favour of policy to fight Islamophobia

The Region of Waterloo council last week unanimously passed a motion approving local community group, Coalition of Muslim Women K-W [https://cmw-kw.org/]'s recommendations to tackle Islamophobia in the region and $100,000 in funding for a year for the organization’s Hate or Discrimination Reporting and Support

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Pizza Hut and Prayers

By Salman Dia-Eddine (Reposted with permission from Islamophobia.io [https://islamophobia.io/]) My family and I, having lived all across North America, have been regular targets of Islamophobic hatred, include acts of physical vandalism against our property. But this hasn't deterred us from being visibly-Muslim members of society

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Legislation to combat Islamophobia and hate crimes tabled in Ontario Legislature

Ontario’s New Democratic Party (NDP) tabled legislation Wednesday aimed at combating Islamophobia and hate crimes. On Wednesday, NDP MPP Faisal Hassan tabled the Our London Family Act, which Horwath and the NDP created in collaboration with the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). The bill is co-sponsored by MPP

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Summit to address Islamophobia in Canada

Toronto’s TARIC Islamic Centre is holding its annual Family Summit this coming weekend. The summit themed, ‘Countering Islamophobia: Effective Strategies and Resources,’ will be held virtually and will be addressed by Muslim leaders, politicians, advocates and policymakers. “Since Family Day was instituted in the Province of Ontario, the TARIC

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Governor General's Statement on National Day of Remembrance of the Québec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia

Statement by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., O.Q., C.D., Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada Five years ago, a heinous attack rocked Québec City—an attack driven by hate. Six worshippers at the Islamic Cultural Centre were killed

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You can do something about Islamophobia right now

By @studentAsim [https://twitter.com/studentasim] There is a fresh new initiative to do something about Islamophobia. New digital platform, Islamophobia.io [https://islamophobia.io] creates “instant” change against Islamophobia. The platform is public, and gives Muslims, allies, and those interested in standing up for Muslim communities, an opportunity to

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Olive Tree Foundation announces $100K grant to support victims of Islamophobia

The Olive Tree Foundation has announced that a grant of $100,000 has been awarded to Edmonton’s Canadian Islamic Centre (Al Rashid Mosque) for a project that will support victims of Islamophobia. In the past year, there have been many hate attacks fuelled by Islamophobia on Muslims in Canada.

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Statement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the fourth anniversary of the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement to mark the fourth anniversary of the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec: “Four years ago tonight, a terrorist attack at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec in Ste-Foy claimed the lives of six people and seriously

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Canadian Government designates January 29 as National Day to Commemorate the Quebec City Mosque Shooting and a Day of Action Against Islamophobia

Four years ago, an act of terror took the lives of six people at the Grand Mosque in Quebec City and seriously injured 19 others. Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzeddine Soufiane, Aboubaker Thabti were fathers, husbands, loved ones, colleagues and Muslims. Their deaths were heartbreaking

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‘Islamophobia is’ Video Series Released

On January 29, 2017, six Muslims were killed and another 19 injured when an anti-Muslim gunmanopened fire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#Victims]in a Quebec mosque. At the time, it was themost fatal [http://extremism.ca/results.aspx]act of ideological violence in Canada since

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Islamophobia Hotline launched in British Columbia

(March 9, 2016) – Today, the legal community in British Columbia launched the Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline, after a nationwide increase in reported incidents of racial and faith-related discrimination against Canadian Muslims in recent months. “Discrimination against Muslims, and people perceived to be Muslims, is an intolerable and ongoing reality in

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Fear only a short chapter in the Muslim-West story

[http://127.0.0.1/wp/2013/fear-only-a-short-chapter-in-the-muslim-west-story/istanbul-istanbul/] By Muqtedar Khan It concerns me that Islamophobia, an irrational fear of Islam and animosity toward Muslims, is becoming a dominant paradigm through which all Western-Muslim relations are now being explored. A conglomerate of five Universities, led by Yildiz Technical University

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Concern at Anti-Muslim Attacks in Ottawa and Vancouver

(August 1, 2009) The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) today expressed concern regarding the recent round of unprovoked attacks in Vancouver and Ottawa targeting Canadian Muslims. In Ottawa two Muslim women who wear the hijab were attacked by the same assailant while walking in the street—one was punched