[Dhaka Tribune] Five people have been killed after gunnies opened fire in a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers, the mosque's president told news hounds on Sunday.It'll be taken as evidence of the Islamophobia of the Great White North until it comes out that the attacks were members of a rival mosque faction.
Earlier, a witness told Rooters that up to three gunnies fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre.
Police put up a security perimeter around the mosque and declined to comment to news hounds about the incident.
"Why is this happening here? This is barbaric," said the mosque's president, Mohammed Yangui.
In June 2016, a pig’s head was left on the doorstep of the cultural centre.
Yangui, who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers. He did not know how many were maimed, saying they had been taken to different hospitals across Quebec City.
Incidents of Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab, or Moslem face covering. In 2013, police investigated after a mosque in the Saguenay region of Quebec was splattered with what was believed to be pig blood.
In the neighbouring province of Ontario, a mosque was set on fire in 2015, a day after an attack by gunnies and jacket wallahs in Gay Paree.