On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned an attack on a mosque in Mississauga, Ontario, which is being investigated as a hate crime and was described by rights advocates as part of an increase in Islamophobia.
Police said two rocks were thrown through the window of a Mississauga Mosque on Sunday, the day before the anniversary of a mosque attack in Quebec City that killed six people in 2017. According to CBC News, no one was injured during the incident.
“Islamophobia has no place in any of our communities,” Trudeau said on X, which opens a new tab that was previously called Twitter.
“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,” he said.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims described the attack as “part of an alarming rise in Islamophobic hate across the country.”
“Islamophobia has no place in any of our communities,” Trudeau said on X, which opens a new tab that was previously called Twitter.
“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,” he said.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims described the attack as “part of an alarming rise in Islamophobic hate across the country.”