Amira Elghawaby is the communications head for the Canadian Race Relations Basis
Montreal:
Canada on Thursday appointed its first particular consultant on combatting Islamophobia, a place created following a number of latest assaults on Muslims within the nation.
Journalist and activist Amira Elghawaby will fill the put up to “function a champion, advisor, knowledgeable and consultant to assist and improve the federal authorities’s efforts within the battle towards Islamophobia, systemic racism, racial discrimination and spiritual intolerance,” an announcement by the prime minister’s workplace mentioned.
An lively human rights campaigner, Elghawaby is the communications head for the Canadian Race Relations Basis and a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper, having beforehand labored for greater than a decade at public broadcaster CBC.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised Elghawaby’s appointment as “an necessary step in our battle towards Islamophobia and hatred in all its kinds.”
“Variety actually is one in every of Canada’s biggest strengths, however for a lot of Muslims, Islamophobia is all too acquainted,” he added.
Over the previous few years, a sequence of lethal assaults have focused Canada’s Muslim group.
In June 2021, 4 members of a Muslim household have been killed when a person ran them over along with his truck in London, Ontario.
4 years earlier, six Muslims died and 5 have been injured in an assault on a Quebec Metropolis mosque.
In a sequence of tweets Thursday, Elghawaby listed the names of these killed within the latest assaults, including: “We should always remember.”
The creation of the brand new job had been really useful by a nationwide summit on Islamophobia organized by the federal authorities in June 2021 in response to the assaults.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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