LONDON, Canada — A man driving a pick-up truck slammed into and killed four members of a Muslim family in the south of Canada’s Ontario province, in what police said Monday was a “premeditated” attack. “To the Muslim community in London and to Muslims across the country, know that we stand with you. “This is a terrorist attack on Canadian soil and must be treated as such,” its president, Mustafa Farooq, told Radio Canada. The Muslim Association of Canada also called on authorities to “prosecute this horrific attack as an act of hate and terrorism.”“Hate and Islamophobia have NO place in Ontario,” tweeted Ontario Premier Doug Ford. At the time, prior to New Zealand mosques shootings in March 2019, it was the worst ever attack on Muslims in the West.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 08, 2021 01:41 UTC