Carleton University and Canadian Arab Federation

Canada: An Ottawa radio station also reported Thursday that a Muslim student at Carleton University says she found a racist note in her mailbox saying: "Canada is no place for immigrants or terrorists, according to Huffington Post Canada. Go back home.'' CFRA posted a photo of the hand-written note on its website. The coalition, comprised of groups that include the Canadian Arab Federation and the African-Canadian Legal Clinic, held a news conference at the Ontario legislature to decry what it described as an alarming increase in hate crimes. "We cannot use these new Syrian refugees that we commit to bring here to Canada as a scapegoat for these crimes against other innocent civilians,'' said Mohamed Boudjenane, the acting president of the Canadian Arab Federation. "These same people we're bringing into Canada ... are the main victims of these terrorist groups.'' The news conference was held as the Toronto Transit Commission reported that two women wearing hijabs were harassed and assaulted on the subway during the evening rush hour on Wednesday. "These same people we're bringing into Canada ... are the main victims of these terrorist groups.'' Two men and a woman made abusive comments, suggested the women were terrorists and pushed one of the women, a TTC spokesman said. "The TTC condemns this behaviour and racist act utterly and completely — there are no words, frankly, that are strong enough,'' Brad Ross said in a statement. Racist graffiti targeted at Muslim women was also discovered Wednesday night in the washroom of a commuter GO Train, said transit agency Metrolinx. Those incidents follow an attack on a hijab-wearing Muslim woman in Toronto and a fire at a mosque in Peterborough, Ont., that is being investigated as a hate crime. In Montreal earlier this week, police arrested a man after a You Tube video showed someone wearing a Joker mask saying one Arab would be murdered in Quebec every week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.