Tag: One year later
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‘She left a legacy’: Memorial art exhibit joins Yumnah Afzaal’s mosque mural
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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…
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Remembering the Afzaals: London marks a community tragedy
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Londoners are coming together Monday to remember the Afzaal family on the first anniversary of a hit-and-run crash that killed four members of the London Muslim family in a collision police allege was deliberate, the family targeted because of their faith.
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Prime minister visits London, honours Afzaals on painful anniversary
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‘We shouldn’t have to be fighting for this’
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SIMS: London is fighting hate after the Afzaal tragedy, but is it enough?
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A stubborn stain left behind in our city by the forces of hate and intolerance won’t be easy to scrub away, our Jane Sims writes.
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COLUMNS: Muslim community reflects, one year after Afzaal tragedy
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As we did during that grief-filled week a year ago, we turn over our Saturday Comment pages to the local Muslim community again today.
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Al-Azem: Even in loss that touches thousands, each grief is personal
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On June 8, 2021, at the end of the London vigil that had drawn thousands for a family of five run down in what police allege was a hate attack, I did three things.
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Tahir: Why we must pass the Our London Family Act
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On June 8, 2021, I stood on the steps of the London Muslim Mosque, with people to my left and right as far as my eyes could see.
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Tobah: Systemic Islamophobia facilitates, enables interpersonal violence
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The June 6, 2021, attack on the Afzaal family brought to focus the undeniable reality of Islamophobia and racism in London as many of us who are racialized experience it.
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Sallam: Loss not a one-time event, but a continuous onslaught
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This last year has been the most painful time of my life.