MONTREAL: Canada on Thursday appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia, a position created following several recent attacks on Muslims in the country.<\/p>\n
Journalist and activist Amira Elghawaby will fill the post to “serve as a champion, adviser, expert and representative to support and enhance the federal government\u2019s efforts in the fight against Islamophobia, systemic racism, racial discrimination and religious intolerance,” a statement by the prime minister\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
An active human rights campaigner, Elghawaby is the communications head for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper, having previously worked for more than a decade at public broadcaster CBC.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised Elghawaby’s appointment as “an important step in our fight against Islamophobia and hatred in all its forms.”<\/p>\n
“Diversity truly is one of Canada’s greatest strengths, but for many Muslims, Islamophobia is all too familiar,” he added.<\/p>\n
Over the past few years, a series of deadly attacks have targeted Canada\u2019s Muslim community.<\/p>\n
In June 2021, four members of a Muslim family were killed when a man ran them over with his truck in London, Ontario.<\/p>\n
Four years earlier, six Muslims died and five were injured in an attack on a Quebec City mosque.<\/p>\n
In a series of tweets Thursday, Elghawaby listed the names of those killed in the recent attacks, adding: “We must never forget.”<\/p>\n
The creation of the new job had been recommended by a national summit on Islamophobia organized by the federal government in June 2021 in response to the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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