[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][size=18px]Police said the men started calling the woman a “terrorist†and said “go back to your country.â€[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]One of the men started punching the woman in the stomach and a second man ripped off her hijab during the assault. The woman yelled for them to stop.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][size=18px]Police said her cellphone was stolen during the assault.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]The woman’s brother, a man named Owais, said he was shaking with rage when he first heard about the incident.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]“I was already told on the phone that the situation looks like a hate crime, from an officer that called me,†he said.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][size=18px]Owais said that when he arrived on scene an ambulance was already taking his sister to the hospital.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]“When I saw her obviously she was crying … her kids were crying,†he said. “Which is a scene that no human wants to see.â€[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]Owais said that normally his sister has her three year old with her when she goes to pick up her two other children from school, but thankfully decided to leave the three year old with her sister.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]She was taken to hospital and was complaining of severe stomach pains but was released from hospital later the same day.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]Owais said his sister was protecting her face when the man was punching her and that she also got hit in her jaw.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]“I don’t know what human, if they are human, could do that to anybody,†he said.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]Owais said that the neighbourhood is a tight knit community and “according to my sister she has never seen these males in this community.â€[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]His sister said the men were between the ages of 30 and 35 years old.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]Police are searching for two suspects and described them as white men.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]“The main thing is we need to get together as a community of Muslims, as Torontonians, and catch them,†said Owais. “This is not going to beat us … we are not going anywhere.â€[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]And not far from where that attacked happened, a relative of the woman found anti-Muslim graffiti written on the wall inside their apartment building on Saint Dennis Drive, which says “Muslims not welcome.â€[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(79, 79, 79)][/size][size=18px]Police have confirmed that they’re investigating but so far have found no connection between the assault and the graffiti.[/size][/color]
[quote author=~Nargis~ link=topic=101427.msg664285#msg664285 date=1447772419]
i am not familiar with that park but this is awful.
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it is a huge enclave of Condos , Townhouses and rental apartments.
jus off the DVP...
Desirable location that became a mid east look alike
WASHINGTON (ABC7) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on Spirit Airlines Wednesday to issue a public apology to the four passengers removed from a plane at Baltimore Washington International Airport Tuesday morning.
Spirit Airlines Flight 969 was preparing to takeoff from Baltimore when a passenger informed a flight attendant of "suspicious activity" by another passenger. CAIR said the "suspicious activity" the passenger reported was a man of Middle-Eastern descent watching a news report on his smart phone.
This passenger, along with three others, were asked to exit the plane for questioning. All were eventually released and no charges were pressed.
CAIR issued a statement saying:
"The threshold for 'see something, say something' is meant to apply to suspicious behavior, not personal prejudices against minorities engaging in non-suspicious behavior...These passengers were inconvenienced and forced to endure humiliating treatment and invasive questioning for no apparent substantial reason other than because their perceived ethnicity caused alarm in a fellow passenger. "
CAIR demanded Spirit Airlines take steps to ensure this type of incident does not happen again.