Initial findings from a Canadian Senate committee mentioned far-right and anti-Muslim hate teams are rising and so too are incidents of hate.
(Reuters)
Islamophobia is deeply rooted in Canada and on the rise, and Black Muslims carrying hijabs are explicit targets, a Senate committee findings mentioned.
The Senate committee on human rights is learning the problem, and preliminary findings point out that anti-Muslim incidents typically are violent, extra so than proven towards different spiritual teams.
“Canada has a problem,” committee chair Sen. Salma Ataullahjan mentioned on Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Canadian Press.
“We are hearing of intergenerational trauma because young kids are witnessing this. Muslims are speaking out because there’s so many attacks happening and they’re so violent,” she mentioned.
The committee travelled throughout the nation to talk to Muslims, together with victims of assaults — docs, academics and others.
The committee, which is able to produce a full report in July, mentioned far-right and anti-Muslim hate teams are rising and so too are incidents of hate.
Statistics Canada reported final month that police-reported hate crimes “rose from 2,646 in 2020 to 3,360 in 2021, a 27 percent increase.”
The figures additionally confirmed that hate crimes concentrating on Muslims which have been reported to police rose 71 p.c over the identical interval — roughly eight incidents per 100,000 Muslims.
There are round 1,775,000 Muslims in Canada. That works out to about 144 incidents.
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But Ataullahjan mentioned the issue is worse and lots of different incidents have gone unreported.
The committee discovered that girls are significantly susceptible.
“Some of these women were afraid to leave their homes and it became difficult for them to take their children to school. Many were spat on,” Ataullahjan mentioned.
“Muslims have to look over their shoulder constantly.”
In a press release, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) welcomed the Senate’s choice to compile the report.
“It’s one thing that everybody in every single place wants to review up on,” mentioned NCCM spokesperson Steven Zhou.
The organisation lately despatched out a news launch detailing the hate incidents.
They embody “hateful messages” sprayed on a Toronto mosque in March, and a person coming into a Montreal mosque and shattering home windows with a shovel.
In one other incident, a male was noticed “yelling Islamophobic slurs” on the Islamic Society in Markham close to Toronto, in April, whereas two Muslim ladies had been “held at gunpoint” in Kitchener, Ontario.
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