{"id":13652,"date":"2023-01-27T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13652"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:49:05","slug":"canada-appoints-first-advisor-to-combat-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/canada-appoints-first-advisor-to-combat-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada appoints first advisor to combat Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada appoints first advisor to combat Islamophobia. Canada on Thursday appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia, a position created following several recent attacks on Muslims in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and activist Amira Elghawaby will fill the post to &#8220;serve as a champion, advisor, expert and representative to support and enhance the federal government\u2019s efforts in the fight against Islamophobia, systemic racism, racial discrimination and religious intolerance,&#8221; a statement by the prime minister\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>An active human rights campaigner, Elghawaby is the communications head for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper, having previously worked for more than a decade at public broadcaster CBC.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\"> Justin Trudeau<\/a> praised Elghawaby&#8217;s appointment as &#8220;an important step in our fight against Islamophobia and hatred in all its forms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Islamophobia and discrimination are unacceptable. Period. Today, we\u2019re appointing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmiraElghawaby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmiraElghawaby<\/a> as Canada\u2019s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia to help end this hate \u2013 and to build a better future for everyone. More here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/revaJmTvAa\">https:\/\/t.co\/revaJmTvAa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\/status\/1618624182484611073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/un-finally-recognises-grave-islamophobia-challenge-confronting-the-world-pm-imran-khan.html\">UN finally recognises grave Islamophobia challenge confronting the world: PM Imran Khan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diversity truly is one of Canada&#8217;s greatest strengths, but for many Muslims, Islamophobia is all too familiar,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, a series of deadly attacks have targeted Canada\u2019s Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, four members of a Muslim family were killed when a man ran them over with his truck in London, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Four years earlier, six Muslims died and five were injured in an attack on a Quebec City mosque.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets Thursday, Elghawaby listed the names of those killed in the recent attacks, adding: &#8220;We must never forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The creation of the new job had been recommended by a national summit on Islamophobia organised by the federal government in June 2021 in response to the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada appoints first advisor to combat Islamophobia. Canada on Thursday appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia, a position created following several recent attacks on Muslims in the country. Journalist and activist Amira Elghawaby will fill the post to &#8220;serve as a champion, advisor, expert and representative to support and enhance the federal government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[2007,4691,7515],"class_list":["post-13652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-canada","tag-islamophobia","tag-justin-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}