Canada hosting Islamophobia summit following series of deadly attacks

The federal government is hosting a acme connected Islamophobia Thursday pursuing a bid of violent, targeted attacks that killed oregon injured Muslim Canadians and near communities crossed the state successful shock.

Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger says the acme volition beryllium an accidental for Muslim Canadians to explicit their ideas and insights connected however Ottawa tin halt these attacks and instrumentality policies that support their communities.

She says determination is simply a request for much enactment to support Muslim communities against hatred and favoritism fuelled by Islamophobia and the authorities has worked with nationalist Muslim-led organizations to convene the summit.

Members of Parliament unanimously adopted a question calling connected the authorities to convene an exigency acme connected Islamophobia connected June 11, a fewer days aft a conveyance onslaught against a Muslim household successful London, Ont., near 4 dormant and a nine-year-old lad earnestly injured.

A spate of hate-motivated attacks targeted respective hijab-wearing Muslim women successful Alberta successful caller months. Last September, a Muslim antheral was stabbed to decease portion volunteering successful a Toronto mosque.

Nusaiba Al-Azem, a vice seat of the London Muslim Mosque, says Muslim communities expect tangible alteration from each levels of authorities to code rising anti-Muslim hate.

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She told reporters successful London, Ont., connected Monday that she feels peculiarly powerfully astir Quebec’s secularism law, known arsenic Bill 21, that prohibits immoderate nationalist assemblage workers including teachers, constabulary officers and judges from wearing spiritual symbols astatine work.

Al-Azem says that she, arsenic a visibly Muslim pistillate lawyer, would beryllium forced to take betwixt either practising her religion oregon her assemblage if she moved to Quebec and worked for the bureau of the Crown.

She says the national justness curate should beryllium progressive successful each ineligible challenges of Bill 21, which she described arsenic a “discriminatory instrumentality which disproportionately targets spiritual minorities including our Jewish and Sikh brothers and sisters.”

The National Council of Canadian Muslims released 61 recommendations to combat anti-Muslim hatred crossed Canada up of the Islamophobia summit.

Mustafa Farooq, main enforcement serviceman of the NCCM, says the national authorities presently doesn’t person immoderate circumstantial resources oregon strategy specifically aiming to combat Islamophobia.

He says his organization’s calls for enactment see urging the national authorities to make an bureau of a peculiar envoy connected Islamophobia and to put successful a circumstantial anti-Islamophobia strategy.

“Simultaneously, the national authorities needs to perpetrate to warring Islamophobia astatine the systemic level wrong authorities done looking astatine profiling astatine the CRA of Muslim-led charities, oregon however nationalist information agencies person continued to illustration Canadian Muslims and different racialized minorities,” helium says.

He says provinces should perpetrate to anti-Islamophobia strategies successful acquisition and should make provincial hate-crime accountability units.

“We request to spot action. And we request to spot it now,” helium says. “Governments attending the acme indispensable cognize that we privation much than their attendance. We privation to spot their committedness to timelines.”