Montreal’s Muslim community is shaken, following an incident of vandalism at a downtown mosque earlier this week. The Canadian Institute of Islamic Civilization (CIIC) on Belmont Street downtown was defaced with anti-Palestinian graffiti on June 10. “We had been harassed by the vandalism here,” said worshipper, Ahmed Sobhi. Spray painted on its exterior wall: the […]
  • nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    The same article:

    “Montreal police’s hate crimes unit has taken over the investigation.
    Since Oct. 7, 2023 – the start of the war – up to June 11 of this year, the force has seen 86 reported hate crimes or hate incidents against the Arab-Muslim community in Montreal. 273 reports against the Jewish community.”


    There’s even more hatred as the result of the (yet another) war started as the massacre at Nova music festival. I see it as the objective of the terror attack…