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| Beating of Muslim woman on city bus.. |
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| 01/31/02 at 20:37:00 |
| http://ca.news.yahoo.com/020130/6/i1u9.html Tuesday January 29 9:16 PM EST Beating of Muslim woman on city bus called result of Sept. 11 racist backlash By COLIN PERKEL TORONTO (CP) - The ugly bruises under her eyes still bear witness to what Fatema Hussain says was an unprovoked beating on a city bus, one she says provoked laughter among other passengers. The 50-year-old mother of eight children, five still at home, is a victim, her supporters say, of a post-Sept. 11 backlash against Muslims in Canada, and something has to be done. "I couldn't sleep from the pain," Hussain, wearing a traditional head scarf, told a news conference Tuesday through an interpreter. "I'm still in pain and I'm not feeling at peace." Hussain, who fled violence and oppression in Iraq two years ago, said she was heading home from a shopping expedition just after four o'clock one afternoon last week when the bus driver rejected her transfer, ripped it up and told her to pay again. When she refused, she says the driver and passengers began yelling at her to get off the bus, while others laughed. Hussain says a passenger then grabbed her shopping bags, threw them off the bus and pushed her roughly out the door as she got off to retrieve them. When she turned around, she says the man punched her in the head, knocking her briefly unconscious. Hussain says a passerby finally helped her back onto the bus and the driver called police. "The police told me they could do nothing about it because the guy who had punched me had fled the scene," Hussain said. But Toronto police spokesman Sgt. Jim Muscat said Tuesday that police consider the incident "serious" and are investigating it. The Toronto Transit Commission said the driver followed normal procedures. The commission was unaware of any complaint against the driver, spokeswoman Marilyn Bolton said. She added that the commission had been told Hussain's son was satisfied with the explanations he was given about why the transfer was rejected. New Democrat Peter Kormos called the incident "disturbing" and described as an outrage what he believes has been its insufficient investigation. "How can we as a community leave this woman punched, beaten and bruised and not do anything meaningful about it?" said Kormos. "This is not an isolated incident. Canadians are being attacked and these attacks have been nurtured by the climate of hatred that has flowed from Sept. 11." In fact, Toronto police say there was a "significant increase" in hate-related complaints in the city after the terror attacks in the U.S., but that the number is now what it was before Sept. 11. "That number dropped steadily in the next couple of months and it's come back to a normal amount," said Det.-Const. Samuel Samm of the Toronto police hate-crimes section. Nevertheless, Kormos wants the Ontario government to resurrect the province's anti-racism secretariat. He is also asking retired Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, appointed last fall as Ontario's security adviser, to investigate. |
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| BUSHRA |
| 02/01/02 at 04:43:28 |
| [slm] Well,yet another backlash incident coming out among so many others. Personally I think that the people who usually verbally or physically abuse and assault innocent muslims claiming the reason to be 9/11 attacks is infact an excuse more than anything else. maybe I am pointing out what is already obvious but most of these people have already been harbouring this hatred in their hearts for a long time and now they just have an excuse for it. But for every racist there is atleast one person who can stand up to help the victims of these acts.Perhaps there is hope yet. BUSHRA. |
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| MuslimSis |
| 02/01/02 at 06:02:22 |
| as-salaamu alaikum, i agree bushra:) unfortunately the september 11th incidence is just an excuse for the racists out there:(!!! its all just soo discussing how ppl want to hurt others:( take care, w'salaam |
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| mujaahid |
| 02/01/02 at 11:43:16 |
| I agree with you guys, this just givew the racists an excuse to really do what they've always wanted. And you know what? This should be our excuse to do to the racists what WE've always wanted. If you see a muslim being attacked, you should take down the attacker and beat him unconcious, its just what they deserve!! If you get arrested...SO WHAT!!!! |
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| BUSHRA |
| 02/01/02 at 12:03:46 |
| [slm] Bro. Mujahid ,your response made me smile because you reminded me of an incident two friends of mine went through. So here goes: two muslim ladies , one in a hijab and the other in full jilbab(abaya and all) were waiting at the bus stop. This is just a week after 9/11 in UK. Any way a man who was clearly drunk started murmuring "go away". At first they did'nt understand but then he started to swear and yelled loudly at them "go back to your country".One of the ladies answered back with "I was born here, why don't you go back to YOUR country", the drunk probably responded that he was born in so and so but before this could go any further a sweet old lady stepped in and told the guy off and started scolding him for being a racist.Meanwhile a car full of muslim brothers was passing buy and they saw the commotion ,tured back and offered their assistance to my friends and at the sametime started telling the guy off (who was pretty scared by now ).And at that moment the bus arrived and all the passengers were like "hey , what's going on ,is that guy troubling you?" My friends thought it was hillarious and laughed all the way home. I just thought you would enjoy reading this. BUSHRA. |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 02/07/02 at 02:29:59 |
I live in Toronto. I didn't hear about this until the next day. I didn't hear it from ANY TV reports, radio, etc. It was only on a text blurb that goes on the bottom on the local 24 hour news channel and that was a day after it happened. Toronto has about million people in the immediate area and 12 percent are muslim. ...And I still haven't hear much about it. |
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| MuslimSis |
| 02/07/02 at 08:24:03 |
| as-salaamu alaikum,[quote]My friends thought it was hillarious and laughed all the way home.[/quote]hehe, its so funny when insidants like ur friends turn out the way they did, but unfortunatly usually this isn't the case...but alhamdulillah ur friends got out safely with a laff of joy:) [quote]I didn't hear it from ANY TV reports, radio, etc.[/quote]...u know wat, i'm not suprised 1 bit!!! Its typical not to hear abt a muslim old woman who is hurt, but soon as a old non muslim (specially if she's rich) is hurt in the slightest way it makes the head lines...coincidence, dont u think??? Sometimes the media sickens me...actually most of the times):( I hope i havn't offended anyone with my comment, take care, w'salaam |
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