Canada’s Lingering Islamophobia Problem

A year after the Quebec mosque shooting, community and government support conceal a dangerous and still widely unacknowledged problem: the continuing growth in anti-Muslim sentiment throughout Canada.

The Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec City

by Oscar Jarzmik

January 29, 2017, marked one year since the mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque that left six Muslim men dead and nineteen injured. The alleged gunman, twenty-eight-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, has since been charged with six counts of first-degree murder, and six counts of attempted murder …