Dr Abdelkader Tayebi and Ummah Mosque

Halifax: Dr, according to CTV. Abdelkader Tayebi, imam for the Ummah Mosque in Halifax, says he hopes the first-person experience will help people better understand those who wear the hijab, which covers the head and neck but not the face. "It no longer something that is related to a minority or a couple people, so it has surfaced as a matter of concern to Canadians," he said. "It being seen as something imported from outside, from the Middle East, whereas it is now a Canadian thing." Tayebi says there are many mistaken ideas surrounding the hijab, including the notion that men are forcing women to wear them. Anyone who stops by the Halifax Central Library for "Hijab Day" on Saturday will be invited to try one on. One event organizer hopes the simple act of trying on the hijab will help to forge a path to a larger understanding of Islam that could dispel anti-immigrant sentiment, focused on Muslims, that have been fanned by the recent attacks in Paris and Beirut. "We figured that it would be a good time for Canadians everywhere, from different backgrounds, to come together and acknowledge our differences," said Maram Saidi. On Wednesday, Montreal police announced the arrest of a man following the release of a You Tube video in which someone says one Arab would be murdered in Quebec every week. In the wake of the attacks in Paris, mosques in Canada have been vandalized and torched, and a Muslim woman was attacked and beaten Monday in Toronto while picking up her children from school. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.