After the Paris attacks some Canadian Muslims are being scapegoated for crimes that have nothing to do with this country, and for which they owe no apology.
A young Toronto mother is viciously attacked by two men on the way to pick up her son at Grenoble Public School. They try to tear off her Muslim head scarf, rob her, beat her to the ground, kick her, call her a “terrorist,” tell her to go back to her country.
This is her country. It always has been. She was born here. So were her children. Yet one of them, a little boy, just 5, had to watch as his injured mom was taken to hospital on a stretcher.
This is not who we are. We are better than this.
As Mayor John Tory put it, the aberrant assault was “disgusting, unacceptable and not reflective of our city’s values.” By and large, ours is a civil, tolerant, inclusive society.
