Toronto police's hate crime unit is looking into reports of an advertising truck displaying a message they describe as Islamophobic. According to footage on
Toronto police’s hate crime unit is looking into reports of an advertising truck displaying a message they describe as Islamophobic.
These images are accompanied with the text, “Is this Lebanon? Is this Yemen? Is this Syria? Is this Iraq? No. This is Canada.”by the National Council of Canadian Muslims. “This is extremely dangerous messaging, and should not be condoned,” they wrote. “We have seen Islamophobic hate kill in Canada, including in Ontario.”
“This clear incitement to hate Muslims is deeply worrisome given the ongoing violence that our communities continue to experience, including most recently an arson in London, Ontario, as well as physical assaults of visibly Muslim women in Scarborough, Halifax, Ottawa, and elsewhere,”.
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