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Four years after a gunman killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mosque, the fight against Islamophobia in Quebec has taken one step forward and two steps back, advocates say.
“Everything the public gave us: empathy, kindness, recognition, the government has taken it back,” said Boufeldja Benabdallah, a spokesperson for the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, where the rampage on Jan. 29, 2017, left 19 wounded and 17 children fatherless.
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The premeditated, hate-fuelled massacre, and a touching eulogy by Imam Hassan Guillet five days later, created a wave of sympathy for Muslims and the Ste-Foy mosque, which had endured numerous acts of vandalism leading up to the attack, like spray-painted swastikas and gift-wrapped pig’s heads left on the doorstep.
/CNW Telbec/ - Four years ago, an act of terror took the lives of six people at the Grand Mosque in Quebec City and seriously injured 19 others. Ibrahima.