Muslim community leaders hope to turn the tide of Islamophobia through education, giving Londoners the chance to learn about their faith on the anniversary of the Afzaal family tragedy.
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 […]
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.
‘We shouldn’t have to be fighting for this’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This last year has been the most painful time of my life.