Maryam Al\u002DSabawi says she’s often startled by the sound of a passing car, haunted by the memory of her friend being killed two years ago in a devastating…
Al-Sabawi and community leaders say London, in southwestern Ontario, has been transformed by the 2021 attack, which was the worst mass killing in the city’s history.
London’s anti-oppression and anti-racism division has proposed a framework that would allow the city to pass all policies through an anti-racism lens. The youth coalition has created educational programming about Islamophobia and its effects on youth that has been adopted by schools in the city. It is also working on a documentary about Islamophobia.Article content
Al-Sabawi has had a few frightening experiences herself– a few days after the attack on the Afzaal family, she says she was in a car with her mother when another vehicle tried to run them off the road. She and her Muslim friends have also been told to “go back to where they came from” while at school, she says.Article content
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