'Imagine the children of those families here in Quebec who are hearing it on the radio and will watch their mothers cry and ask, 'Why are you crying?''
"The world cannot continue like this."QUEBEC — A little more than two years after their own community came under attack, Muslims in Quebec City said they were in shock over the mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques Friday that claimed at least 49 lives.
Attacking people during prayers is absolutely appalling, and Canada strongly condemns today's shootings in New Zealand. Our thoughts and hearts go out to the victims and their families, and we join New Zealanders and Muslim communities around the world in grieving.Boufeldja Benabdallah, the head of the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre, said a feeling of"indescribable pain" was apparent in his own community.
"We must get back to work once again to explain, to tell these extremists of all stripes who politicize religion, like extremists who use race as a basis for discrimination, that we must change," Benabdallah said."The world cannot continue like this." "We will have discussions about that to see how we can enhance our security systems to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future," he said in an interview.
Trudeau said Canadians join New Zealanders and Muslim communities around the world in grieving and condemning the attack and work to act against violent extremism. One man was arrested and charged with murder in what appears to have been a carefully planned racist attack in New Zealand.There are unconfirmed reports that the shooter was influenced by Bissonnette, the former Universite Laval student convicted of killing six worshippers in 2017.
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