Tag: Afzaal Family

A city still in mourning but determined to fight back came together in dozens of ways Monday to honour a London Muslim family killed a year ago in a collision police allege was intentional. Morning and evening prayers book-ended a sombre first-anniversary day of events that included London students symbolically completing a walk the Afzaal […]

After falling off-and-on since the late afternoon, the rain began in earnest at the corner of Hyde Park and South Carriage roads in Hyde Park just before 7 p.m. Within 15 minutes, the downpour had turned torrential and the evening vigil planned to honour the memory of the Afzaals – who have come to be […]

A promising young artist, 15-year-old Yumnah Afzaal would spend hours working on her hand-painted mural in the basement of the London Muslim Mosque. But the piece was “never celebrated,” Hanni Shahatto, Yumnah’s Grade 7 home room teacher, said Monday as a temporary art exhibit honouring the teenager and her family, killed in a collision a […]

Thousands of flowers, notes of love and pain, candles and other small tokens covered the corner of Hyde Park and South Carriage roads after the deadly hit-and-run that claimed the lives of three generations of the Afzaal family on June 6, 2021. When the sprawling impromptu memorial was finally removed weeks later, the bouquets were […]

Six days of community events in London to honour the Afzaal family continue Tuesday and Wednesday with special workshops: TUESDAY: Anti-Islamophobia workshop (open to the public, registration required) What: Open conversation and in-person workshop about Islam and Muslims, titled Islamophobia: Recognize, Resist, Respond. Organized by the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration, Islamic […]