Via Rail is apologizing after a video surfaced online of a Muslim man being told he couldn't pray inside the Ottawa train station, but the National Council of Canadian Muslims said an apology isn't enough.
The video, which was posted on the social media platform TikTok on March 20, shows a man wearing a reflective vest marked "security" approaching a man in a black sweater seated in a waiting area."That I took two minutes to pray? What was your issue?" the man in the sweater asks.
When the man refuses, the video shows the security guard threatening to tell the man's employer about the incident. "Go ahead. You're going viral right now, no worries," the man responds as the guard walks away from him. "Freedom of religion, including the ability to worship, is a human right and is enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms," the statement reads.'Disrespectful' and 'racist' situationCBC News has blurred the faces of both men because it's also unclear whether the security guard was acting on instructions from someone else or his own accord, and because CBC has been unable to reach the other man in the video as of publication time.
That's when some people began recording the interaction, he added. When it was over, some onlookers "came to check" on him.
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