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Coalition of Muslim Women KW director discusses combating anti-Muslim hate

Logo for the Coalition of Muslim women KW. On the left of the image, two illustrated hands are reaching for each other - a yellow one on top, a purple on beneath it. To the right of the hands reads the name of the group.
Shafiq discusses the mission of the coalition, as well as what the organization has done to support the nine-year-old boy who lost the rest of his immediate family. Image courtesy of the Coalition of Muslim Women KW.
Dan Kellar - CKMS - Kitchener • ON | 28-06-2021
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Host: Namish Modi

 Coalition of Muslim Women KW Director of Programming and Services Sarah Shafiq speaks with CKMS about combatting anti-Muslim hate. The interview was held on June 22, a little more than two weeks after the murder of four members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario. 

It was determined that the motivation for the June 6 attack, by 20-year-old white man Nathaniel Veltman, was hate-motivated.

Shafiq discusses the mission of the coalition, as well as what the organization has done to support the surviving nine-year-old boy who lost his immediate family in the attack. 

Shafiq also touches on the importance of allyship and what non-Muslims can do to help combat Islamophobia.

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