Khawlah Noman speaks to reporters at Pauline Johnson Junior Public School in Toronto. An assailant, in two attempts within 10 minutes, cut the girl's hijab using scissors while she was walking to school with her brother, a Toronto police spokeswoman said. The hijab is a head covering worn by some Muslim women and girls. "I felt confused, scared, terrified," Khawlah Noman, who is in Grade 6, told reporters at her school on Friday. The National Council of Canadian Muslims has called on the federal government to declare January 29, the day of the mosque shooting, a day of remembrance and action on Islamophobia.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 12, 2018 18:45 UTC