Etobicoke Somali group receives grant to study hate crimes

BY TAMARA SHEPHARD

February 5, 2008 11:28 AM

Muslim women wearing hijabs often face discrimination, says an Etobicoke Somali organization.

"Muslim women with hijabs absolutely experience hate crimes, and discrimination," said Osman Ali, president of the Somali-Canadian Association of Etobicoke (SCAE).

"One woman just lost her job, and she said it's because of her hijab."

Ali's comments came Thursday after his organization received a $70,000 provincial anti-crime grant.

The grant will fund a joint project between SCAE and the Centre for Research and Development in Kitchener, Ont. to study the causes of racial hate crime.

Research will culminate in a community forum of residents, business leaders, educators, professionals who work in the justice system, and politicians.

Results of the research will be shared with the provincial government, Ali said.

"The Somali community that came here 10 years ago is facing a lot of problems in terms of settlement and integration that have reached a critical mass," Ali told Attorney General Chris Bentley, Etobicoke MPPs Shafiq Qaadri (Etobicoke North) and Donna Cansfield (Etobicoke Centre) and prominent members of the local Somali community.

"Kids are dropping out of school. We face discrimination in terms of race and religion, especially after 9/11. We need to help educate our community about how to combat hate crime."

http://www.insidetoronto.ca/News/Etobicoke/article/40877

If Somali's really wanted to study hate, they could look long and hard at why Israel and the U.S., along with Ethiopian proxy forces, removed the Islamic gov. in Somalia. Things were peacfull there, now there is much killing.

At least five people were killed in the Somali capital Tuesday after suspected insurgents launched a sneak attack on police officers collecting tax revenue at the livestock market in northern Mogadishu's Huriwa district, witnesses said.

Two policemen and a woman working with them died in the firefight, with the remaining two dead bodies belonging to a female trader who worked at the market and an insurgent.

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Mogadishu has seen little respite from insurgent violence since January 2007, when the Ethiopian army ousted Islamic Courts rulers from the capital and installed the weak interim government.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200802051112.html

:mad: IT WOULD BE PATENTLY OBVIOUS TO ANYONE BUT A KAFFIR - BECAUSE WE CAN'T STAND HAVING YOU IN OUR COUNTRY!

let us get a grant for 70,000 to study mudcrime on whites-

study why niggers like to rape,rob and rap- I don't think there would be too much of a study going on- we all know why- they are beast!

Somalia: Al Shabab wing claims separation from ICU

Published 02/07/2008 - 3:08 a.m. EST

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) quoted by UPI, the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabab al-Mujahedin in Somalia is renouncing the Islamic Courts Union. The group, dominated by non-Somalis, accused the ICU for changing its preference in favor of nationalist Somali groups instead of religious groups with “global aims of the jihadist movement.”

The ICU controlled most of southern Somalia until an allied Somali and Ethiopian forces removed the group from power late in 2006. ICU’s leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, is one of the persons on UN wanted list of “terrorists” linked with Al Qaeda, though he denies the accusations. Despite the Somali government achieving milestones to establish transitional institutions, isolated violence remains a major problem for Mogadishu.

http://jimmatimes.com/article.cfm?articleID=17640

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