The perpetrator of the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack — and his consumption of far-right media online — should remind us that social isolation and white supremacy are an explosive mix, writes Nora Loreto.
Recent acts of mass violence in the U.S. have shone a spotlight on the link between misogyny and extremism across the world, including the birthplace of the incel movement: Canada.
Canadian Muslims suffer the damage caused by Islamophobic rhetoric, but have no recourse because parliamentary privilege protects those who espouse such toxic messages from accountability.
The false tweet by Fox News was deleted following a strongly-worded statement from Prime Minister Trudeau who accused the news network of dishonouring the victims of the Quebec City shooting.
"Demagoguery is leading to cesspools of hate on social media, and it’s leading to a rise in hate crimes," says Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong.
Lawyers who launched a legal assistance hotline for victims of Islamophobia are urging Canadian citizens and politicians to talk more openly about the racism and xenophobia in their midst.
The suspect, Alexandre Bissonnette, reportedly made a series of hateful comments on a French-language web group called Bienvenue au refugies — Welcome Refugees.