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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: June 7, 2024, 1:19 pm
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HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-worst-in-g7-for-targeted-killings-of-muslims-mps-told/
Canada worst in G7 for targeted killings of Muslims, MPs told
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> MPs on a committee investigating Islamophobia and antisemitism
heard Thursday that more Muslims have been killed in targeted
attacks in Canada in the past seven years than in any other G7
country
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> The committee also heard that social-media algorithms are
promoting vile anti-Muslim content, which is translating into
hate in the real world.
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> Mr. Brown said Muslim communities are experiencing
unprecedented hate and violence “from every level of society.”
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> He said professionals have lost their jobs or been disciplined
after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, while Muslim women
wearing hijabs have been attacked and harassed in public spaces.
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> A few days ago, a woman wearing a hijab in Ottawa who was
peacefully protesting was struck to the ground and taken to
hospital for her injuries, he told MPs.
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> “Three generations erased with the aim of scaring Muslim
Canadians into leaving Canada. The crime my family committed?
Being visibly Muslim in public,” he said.
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> Mr. Islam told MPs that Muslim Canadians are being actively
and intentionally “portrayed as outsiders and foreigners“ and
for decades “have been deliberately portrayed as a fifth
column,” which eventually “has real, brutal and deadly
consequences.”
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: evil military
Date: June 26, 2024, 6:06 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10485793/canadian-forces-racism-class-action-settlement/
$150M settlement agreement reached in military racism
class-action lawsuit
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> Former Canadian Armed Forces members at the centre of a class
action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and harassment in
the military now have a proposed settlement on the table,
according to court documents.
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> The suit was filed in 2016 with three veterans as
representative plaintiffs, including Nova Scotia native Wallace
Fowler.
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> “There’s just been a lot of things that I’ve been fighting
for, with no justice,” says Fowler, in an interview with Global
News at his Bible Hill, N.S., home.
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> “These guys got caught with their pants down at the end of the
day,” he adds.
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> According to the lawsuit’s statement of claim, Fowler faced a
series of racist incidents soon after he signed up and trained
as a vehicle technician at CFB Borden in 2000, becoming subject
to discriminatory nicknames such as “sunshine” and “boy.”
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> The class action goes on to describe a later incident during
Fowler’s posting at CFB Esquimalt with his family, alleging his
stepchildren were “spat on” and “his spouse had bananas thrown
at her while walking home on the base.”
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> He’s been speaking out against racism in the military ever
since.
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> Fowler was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and was released from service in 2003.
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> “They talked about zero tolerance. But I mean, that only
applies to certain people, I guess,” he says.
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> In 2018, then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan said the military
would settle several class-action lawsuits filed by members of
the Canadian Armed Forces pertaining to sexual assault, racism,
harassment and discrimination.
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> The following year, a $900-million settlement was reached over
sexual misconduct and harassment, more than four years after a
former Supreme Court justice released a landmark report
describing an “underlying sexualized culture” in the military.
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> Fowler recognizes this settlement deal is much less than that,
with individual payments ranging from $5,000 to a maximum of
$35,000.
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> “They’re throwing crumbs at us. They’re giving us a little bit
of money…[but] I’m not worried about the money,” he explains,
“It’s not about money with me.”
> What he really wants is the kind of change he’s not convinced
is happening.
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> “They get caught and what happens is there’s settlements and
these guys are still remaining in position, and that’s the sad
thing about it,” he says.
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> “On my end, it seems like the perpetrators are still in the
services right now, misrepresenting Canada and their values,” he
says.
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> According to the lawsuit, Robillard was called the “n-word”
multiple times during his 17 years of service
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> The lawsuit claims Robillard later heard a superior refer to
him and his mother as “porch monkeys.”
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> “However, throughout the years it just seemed like more and
more people were accepting that type of behaviour.”
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> But individuals within who have perpetrated racism, he says,
have never been properly held accountable.
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> “To me that is creating a continuous toxic environment to not
help promote diversity amongst all Canadians,” he adds.
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> According to the suit, a third lead plaintiff, Marc Frenette,
suffered racial slurs and derogatory treatment due to his
Indigenous heritage while serving in the Royal Canadian Air
Force.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: June 26, 2024, 6:13 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/video-shows-neighbours-making-anti-asian-remarks-toward-barrhaven-family-1.7237278
Video shows neighbours making anti-Asian remarks toward
Barrhaven family
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> A viral video showing two people throwing eggs at a suburban
Ottawa home while making racist remarks is sparking outrage
across the city and beyond, with neighbours pinning the blame on
the household next door that they say is the source of ongoing
disturbances.
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> The front door security footage, which surfaced online last
week, captures a man and a woman mocking Asian languages with
imitative gibberish while standing on a driveway of a home in
early June. The man declares he "f–king hates Asians" because
"they're so ugly and can't talk English."
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> The woman living in the home that was targeted told CBC News
her family, who has South Korean roots, has endured
"unimaginable pain" over the past two years as a result of
continuous noise and harassment.
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> A man who identified himself as the ex-husband of the woman
captured in the video told CBC his family members are in fact
the real victims in an ongoing neighbourhood spat. As "one of
the only white families" in the area, he said they were the ones
being bullied.
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> Multiple residents in the newly developed area told CBC the
tenants often play loud music late into the evening, have thrown
trash at their neighbour's windows and hurled other anti-Asian
insults at the family.
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> "They open the windows and start screaming, 'Asians go back to
your home, go back to your country!'" Saeed said.
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> Another neighbour who lives a few doors down from the two
homes described the conflict as an ongoing "cycle."
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> The story has travelled beyond the city, with several
parliamentarians weighing in on the larger issue of anti-Asian
racism.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: June 26, 2024, 6:20 pm
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HTML https://www.thepetitionsite.com/768/928/519/stop-the-alleged-racism-in-canadas-human-rights-commission/
Stop the Alleged Racism in Canada's Human Rights Commission!
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> In a shocking revelation, Canada's Human Rights Commission
faces serious allegations of racial discrimination. Despite the
fact that the organization is tasked with defending the rights
of its citizens, reports allege its Black employees and
employees of color experience a "hostile and racially charged
workplace," where systemic anti-Black racism, sexism and
systemic discrimination is rampant.
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> With the United Nations-affiliated Global Alliance of National
Human Rights Institutions reviewing these allegations, it's time
to call for urgent reforms.
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> This investigation has highlighted a grave failure within an
institution that should embody fairness and equality.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: rapists & pedos
Date: June 27, 2024, 3:56 pm
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sexual-assaults-canadian-military-have-risen-significantly-data-2023-12-05/
Sexual assaults in Canadian military have risen significantly
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> Sexual assaults in the Canadian military rose significantly in
2022 compared to 2018, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday in the
latest indication sex crimes are a fast-growing problem.
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> In 2022, around 1,960 members of the military, or 3.5% of the
total, reported they had been sexually assaulted by other people
in the armed forces. This compares to 1.6% in 2018.
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> Women made almost 75% of the complaints. The military has been
under pressure for years over allegations of sexual misconduct
by senior officers.
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> The Statscan report was based on a survey of armed forces
members. Around 64% victims of sexual assault did not report the
incident they experienced to anyone in authority, mainly because
they did not feel as though it would make a difference.
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> Last year an official probe recommended that sex crimes in the
military be investigated externally by civilian authorities
given what it called the unsatisfactory handling of offences by
military courts over the preceding 20 years.
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HTML https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-forces-refuse-to-release-records-revealing-who-protected-long-dead-pedophile
Canadian Forces refuses to release records revealing who
protected long-dead pedophile
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> The Canadian Forces is refusing to release records on who
inside its Ottawa headquarters tried to protect a convicted
pedophile who raped children at a military base decades ago.
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> The case has to do with a Catholic priest, Chaplain Capt.
Angus McRae, a pedophile who was eventually booted from the
military and died in 2011.
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> But getting records on McRae, convicted of sodomizing a child
at CFB Edmonton in 1980 and later molesting two boys in the
Toronto area, continues to be an uphill battle even decades
later.
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> “When it comes to McRae, the leadership of the Canadian Forces
always circles the wagons and makes sure he is protected, even
in death,” said Bobbie Bees, who was sexually assaulted at CFB
Edmonton in 1980, when Bees was seven years old.
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> Bees, whose father was in the military, has been fighting for
years to get further records about McRae. He alleges the
chaplain molested a number of children at various bases and
military leaders knew about it at the time.
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> Research by Bees has uncovered other military records related
to similar crimes. Among those were documents related to Donald
Joseph Sullivan, who was accused of sexually abusing 11 boys
when he was a Scouts Canada leader in the 1970s. A police
investigation into Sullivan’s assaults as a Scouts leader only
began in 2018, but it ended with a conviction and a six-year
sentence that Sullivan began serving in 2019. Sullivan was also
caught molesting a child in 2005.
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> Sullivan managed to avoid carrying a criminal record for his
sex crimes until that 2005 incident because of how the military
legal system handled his conviction for five counts of gross
indecency at CFB Gagetown in 1984, according to records obtained
by Bees. Sullivan was sentenced to four years, but was
effectively pardoned by the Canadian Forces judicial system and
released after only serving one year.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 27, 2024, 3:59 pm
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What does this have to do with racism or Islamophobia?
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: rp
Date: October 29, 2024, 8:51 pm
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People say America is more racist than Canada, but the
experiences of people living there tell a different story:
HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianCountry/comments/1dc91pz/i_just_noticed_how_racist_all_the_canadians_sub/?rdt=58909
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