2 possibly 'hate-motivated' incidents at Mississauga Islamic centres investigated by police
Peel police say they are investigating two incidents as possibly "hate-motivated" after a woman went to two Islamic centres in Mississauga last week and placed pages torn from a Qur'an on car windshields while making Islamophobic statements.
Police said a man filmed the woman while she distributed inflammatory flyers and freely provided her name to passersby, according to Const. Harinder Sohi, spokesperson for Peel Regional Police Service.
Investigators want to speak to the woman involved in the incidents. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid.
Sohi said Peel police's criminal investigation bureau at 12 Division is investigating.
"We got complaints coming in late last week that on various locations in Mississauga on March 22 that a female was attending Islamic religious centres in the city of Mississauga, and she was tearing pages out of a Qur'an, leaving these pages on windshields and trying to give some of these pages to the people entering the mosques," Sohi said.
Peel police say they would like to speak to this woman. (Facebook)
"We have listened to the complaints. Now we are trying to investigate what actually occurred here."
Sohi said the first incident occurred at the Sayeda Khadiji Centre, 7150 Edwards Blvd., at 4:30 p.m., while the second incident occurred at Safa and Marwa Islamic School, which is part of the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, at 5550 McAdam Rd., at 5:19 p.m.
2 possibly 'hate-motivated' incidents at Mississauga Islamic centres investigated by police - Toronto - CBC News
Peel police say they are investigating two incidents as possibly "hate-motivated" after a woman went to two Islamic centres in Mississauga last week and placed pages torn from a Qur'an on car windshields while making Islamophobic statements.
Police said a man filmed the woman while she distributed inflammatory flyers and freely provided her name to passersby, according to Const. Harinder Sohi, spokesperson for Peel Regional Police Service.
Investigators want to speak to the woman involved in the incidents. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid.
Sohi said Peel police's criminal investigation bureau at 12 Division is investigating.
"We got complaints coming in late last week that on various locations in Mississauga on March 22 that a female was attending Islamic religious centres in the city of Mississauga, and she was tearing pages out of a Qur'an, leaving these pages on windshields and trying to give some of these pages to the people entering the mosques," Sohi said.
Peel police say they would like to speak to this woman. (Facebook)
"We have listened to the complaints. Now we are trying to investigate what actually occurred here."
Sohi said the first incident occurred at the Sayeda Khadiji Centre, 7150 Edwards Blvd., at 4:30 p.m., while the second incident occurred at Safa and Marwa Islamic School, which is part of the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, at 5550 McAdam Rd., at 5:19 p.m.
2 possibly 'hate-motivated' incidents at Mississauga Islamic centres investigated by police - Toronto - CBC News
