Advocates for the Muslim community in Canada have welcomed efforts to combat hate and Islamophobia in an Ontario city where a driver ran down a Muslim family two years ago, killing four people.
The government of Ontario has announced an investment of approximately $372,000 (500,000 Canadian dollars) to help the city of London develop an anti-hate public education campaign and an online library of resources.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims advocacy organization has embraced the move as “another step… towards positive change.”
“That night two years ago changed the way our community sees itself in Canada,” said the group’s CEO, Stephen Brown, in an earlier statement. “We were forced to confront hate directly, and that is an ongoing task for all Canadians of good will. This commitment toward public education will hopefully be a catalyst in that direction, as we still have a lot of work to do as a country to reckon with Islamophobia.”
Source from www.aljazeera.com