TRUDEAU SAYS ISLAMOPHOBIA ‘HAS NO PLACE’ IN CANADA AFTER MOSQUE ATTACK

Police say two rocks were thrown through the window of this Mississauga mosque, and are calling it a hate crime. (NCCM/X)

Fri 02 February 2024:

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called an attack on a mosque in the Canadian city of Mississauga “cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable”.

“Islamophobia has no place in any of our communities,” he wrote on X.

Places of worship should be safe spaces for community members to gather. The attack against a Mississauga mosque earlier this week – on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia – is cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable. I…

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 1, 2024

Police said someone threw two rocks through the window of a Mississauga mosque on Sunday, on the eve of the anniversary of a mosque attack in Quebec city that killed six people in 2017. CBC News said no one was injured in the incident.

“The attack against a Mississauga mosque earlier this week – on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia – is cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable. I condemn it in the strongest terms possible,” he said.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims said the attack was “part of an alarming rise in Islamophobic hate across the country.”

The incident took place between 9 p.m. and midnight at an Islamic Centre in the city, said Peel Regional Police in an email.

The mosque’s surveillance footage shows “a figure walking up towards the building, throwing rocks into the windows, then running away,” according to a Thursday news release from the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM).

Peel police say no suspect information is currently available.

“That this latest attack in Mississauga happened on such an anniversary, when we were trying our best to reflect on how to honour the victims and survivors, serves as a chilling reminder that violent Islamophobia is still very much alive in Canada,” said NCCM CEO Stephen Brown in the release.

In the early hours of this Monday, the day we commemorated the January 29th, 2017, attack in Quebec City, an individual threw large rocks at a mosque in Mississauga, shattering its windows.

Thankfully, no one was hurt. Police are investigating this as a hate crime. That this… pic.twitter.com/0wXariTL6X

— NCCM (@nccm) February 1, 2024

In November, authorities in Toronto said the number of antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes in Canada’s largest city had spiked significantly since the start of the Gaza conflict.

Rights advocates have noted a rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia in many parts of the world since Oct. 7 when Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel and killed 1,200, according to Israeli tallies.

Since then, Israel has militarily assaulted the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, killing 27,000, according to Gaza’s health ministry, and flattening most of the densely populated enclave where nearly all of the 2.3 million population is displaced.

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