Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement on the two-year anniversary of the shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Qu\u00e9bec:<\/p>\n
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\u201cTwo years ago today, six men were killed in a horrific hate crime, an act of Islamophobic terrorism. These men were killed in a house of worship, the lives of their families and communities forever altered, for no other reason than their Muslim faith.<\/p>\n
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Today, we mourn the tragic loss of these six men killed:\u00a0Ibrahima Barry; Mamadou Tanou Barry; Khaled Belkacemi; Aboubaker Thabti; Abdelkrim Hassane; and Azzedine Soufiane.<\/p>\n
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We honour, too, the survivors of this cowardly and hateful act of violence, and grieve with the families and communities that have been devastated.<\/p>\n
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In the two years since this tragedy occurred, Ontario has continued to see a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Muslim racism and hate crimes against Muslims.<\/p>\n
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Ontario’s New Democrats are committed to working to eliminate Islamophobia in Ontario and around the world.<\/p>\n
We must work to build a province where everyone feels safe and welcome, no matter their faith or ethnicity. Islamophobia has no place here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement on the two-year anniversary of the shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Qu\u00e9bec: \u201cTwo years ago today, six men were killed in a horrific hate crime, an act of Islamophobic terrorism. These men were killed in a house of worship, the lives of their …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 01:43:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18577,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions\/18577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}