Call out white supremacy and Islamophobia, Ottawa vigil hears
In the rain, they gathered at the foot of the Human Rights Monument.
Hundreds stood, together, to grieve, to mourn and to call for change to the rhetoric that makes the murder of Muslims at prayer an all-too-common reality.
Organizer Shahad Khalladi woke up Friday and told a friend that they had to plan another vigil. They gathered, too, for the six people killed in the Quebec City mosque shooting in 2017.
“A few years later, it’s not easier to mourn,” she said. “Today is
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