A second Gatineau, Que., mosque was the target of anti-Muslim slurs last week just hours after vandalism at another mosque. Hicham Ouhaid, president of the Mosque of Aylmer, said he received an email early last Monday urging Muslims to get out of Canada. The message, he said, included a photo of a 2010 Time magazine cover depicting a young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off.
This is not the first time the Aylmer mosque, located at the corner of Park Street and Chemin Eardley, has been targeted, he added, as a hateful letter was dropped in the mailbox last spring. “We felt very concerned. We felt our community is somehow targeted,” Ouhaid told the CBC’s Alistair Steele. “Although we don’t really understand why, because we have been there for quite some time and everything was fine.”
A mosque in Gatineau, Que., that has been a target of vandalism was spray-painted with graffiti overnight.
The Quebec government, which said Tuesday it will allow Muslim women working in provincial jails to wear a head scarf, has been accused by the Opposition of caving in to an “excessive” demand.