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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'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 Program. “Regional Council is working

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Pizza Hut and Prayers

By Salman Dia-Eddine (Reposted with permission from 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 trying to live in peace

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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 There is a fresh new initiative to do something about Islamophobia. New digital platform, 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 participate in outreach. Outreach is shown through

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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

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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 gunman opened fire in a Quebec mosque. At the time, it was the most fatal act of ideological violence in Canada since 1989. Just months after, a national poll found that the majority of Canadians

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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

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 and the municipality of Beykoz province in Istanbul Turkey,

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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