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Road-Rage Incident: London Mosque and Muslim Clothes

road-rage incident: Hassanen was targeted because of her religion she was wearing a hijab and an abaya, according to Globe and Mail. The crime came less than a day before a man drove his van into a group of congregants outside a London mosque, and mere weeks after a white supremacist in Portland was accused of stabbing to death two men who intervened as he harassed a woman in a hijab on a train. And it raised tension over how to characterize it Police insist the murder was a road-rage incident, while many in the community say Ms. It's a hate crime, Abas Sherif, 39, a relative of Ms. This bunch of Muslim girls, wearing traditional Muslim clothes, are not the only people on the street. Hassanen's by marriage, said on Wednesday morning as he sat outside her home, a brick walk-up apartment building. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.