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What it’s actually like to be a Muslim girl in Canada

In the weeks leading up to the 2015 federal election, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives seized on the niqab as a wedge issue. They fought the wearing of the traditional Islamic face veil in citizenship ceremonies; they proposed banning it outright for public servants. And these proposals gained a great deal of support — 55 percent of Canadians polled by Ipsos Reid at that time approved of a ban on the niqab even after a federal court struck down the government’s challenge — exposing a fault line in our treasured multicultural foundation. It wasn’t enough to secure Harper’s re-election, but recent events show that a certain fear remains: In the wake of November’s attacks in Paris, a mosque was set ablaze in Peterborough, Ont.; days later, in Toronto, a Muslim woman was assaulted near a school and two young women were pushed on a subway. The next month, to cheers at a South Carolina rally, presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Read More Here