Alberta Muslim: Affairs Council and Incident Vandals

alberta muslim: That's a 39-per-cent increase within a year, the most pronounced jump of any province in Canada, according to Stats Can, according to CBC. Aurangzeb Qureshi, spokesperson for the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, says the group started its Islamaphobia hotline as a direct response to a 2015 incident in Cold Lake where a mosque had the words Go Home scrawled across its wall. Police-reported hate crimes in Alberta rose from 139 in 2014 to 193 in 2015. It was the second time in a little over a year that the mosque had been vandalized. Hate crimes against Muslims in Canada up 60%, Stats Can reports Aurangzeb Qureshi isn't surprised by the rise of hate crimes in Alberta. In the first incident vandals left racist messages and broken windows. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.