Canadian PM Trudeau condemns attack on a mosque in the city of Mississauga
The attack is being investigated as a hate crime
According to the Police, someone threw two rocks through the window of a Mississauga mosque on Sunday, on the eve of the anniversary of a mosque attack in Quebec City that killed six people in 2017.
The attack is being investigated as a hate crime which rights advocates described as being part of a rise in Islamophobia in Canada.
In a statement posted on X, Trudeau said, “Places of worship should be safe spaces for community members to gather. The attack against a Mississauga mosque earlier this week – on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia – is cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable. I condemn it in the strongest terms possible. Islamophobia has no place in any of our communities.”
Places of worship should be safe spaces for community members to gather. The attack against a Mississauga mosque earlier this week – on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia – is cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable. I…
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 1, 2024
Meanwhile, the National Council of Canadian Muslims in a statement termed that the attack was “part of an alarming rise in Islamophobic hate across the country.”
