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| Harassing Muslims on rise in Canada: Organization |
| 2014-10-31 |
| [Iran Press TV] A Moslem civil liberties and advocacy organization in Canada says reports of anti-Moslem harassment have risen dramatically in the North American country. The National Council of Canadian Moslems said on Thursday that it has seen a tenfold increase in reports of harassment, including racial slurs on public buses, notes left on car windshields and bullying at schools. Amy Awad, the group's human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... coordinator, said a normal volume of reports of anti-Moslem incidents across Canada is about five a week. "That has gone up about tenfold, with a real surge in the past few days," she said. Adil Charkaoui, the coordinator of the Quebec Collective Against Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , also said his group has received 30 complaints of harassment since last week. Imam Syed Soharwardy, the founder of Moslems Against Violence in Calgary, said he has also received a number of complaints recently. The dramatic increase in anti-Moslem harassment reports in Canada follows attacks last week in which two Canadian soldiers were killed. In one incident, a gunman rubbed out a soldier at the Canada War Memorial and charged into the parliament building in Ottawa before being bumped off by security. In another, a man hit two soldiers with his car near Montreal, killing one. Several Canadian Moslem groups quickly condemned the attacks, which were suspected to be linked to the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists. On October 24, the Cold Lake Mosque in Alberta was vandalized in what local business owners and residents called a "disgusting" crime. Both of the front windows of the mosque were broken and the words "go home" were sprayed with red paint on the outside of the building. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Amy Awad? Is that really her last name? These groups must be like the Canadian equivalent of CAIR. Are they at all surprised the Canadians don't take kindly to jihad in their capital? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-31 17:15 |
| #6 I don't get the headline. There's harrassing Muslims all around the world. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-10-31 15:02 |
| #5 This is just a sad attempt go garner sympathy rather than trying to actually help the society their fellow religionists are assaulting. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-10-31 14:34 |
| #4 Of course, we don't know how this group defines 'harassment'. It could include not being super respectful to Muslim sensibilities. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-10-31 09:46 |
| #3 Gee. A group that looks for signs the Muslims are being harassed finds same. I am Shocked, Shocked, do you hear? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-31 08:35 |
| #2 Yall are being harassed while your "converts" kill and terrorize the population. Shut the fuck up |
| Posted by: chris 2014-10-31 07:31 |
| #1 In the 70es there was a joke. Q) Whatever happened to American 'can do' and 'know how'? A) Last seen on a boat sailing for Japan. I guess nowadays it is. Q) Whatever happened to American 'independence' and 'self-reliance'? A) Went north. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-31 02:54 |