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Investigation underway after Toronto mosque receives death threats

Police are investigating after a Toronto mosque received violent messages on Saturday threatening the lives of its members.

Hawzah News Agency (Toronto, Canada) - Police are investigating after a Toronto mosque received violent messages on Saturday threatening the lives of its members.

According to the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), at least one of the messages sent on Saturday threatened to “do a Christ church,” referencing mass shootings that took place in 2019 at two New Zealand mosques that left 51 people dead.

“We have a right to defend ourselves from the terrorists,” one of the messages, provided by the NCCM, reads. “The police will take our side. Islam will not defeat us. We have the guns to do a Christchurch all over again in our office.”

“We have…soldiers who have experience as snipers.”

The downtown Toronto mosque was not named by the NCCM in order to protect them from further threats or attacks.

“Enough is enough,” Mustafa Farooq, the CEO of NCCM, said in a statement issued Monday. “While we greatly appreciate the efforts of Toronto Police Service in conducting an investigation into this particular incident, we need action now from the federal government to develop a national action strategy on dismantling xenophobic groups that preach violent ideologies of hate and violence.”

“Today, we are dealing with threats to murder members of the Toronto Muslim community masse. What more needs to happen before action is taken?”

Toronto police have said they are investigating the threats and take them “very seriously.”  

Investigation underway after Toronto mosque receives death threats.

 Police are investigating after a Toronto mosque received violent messages on Saturday threatening the lives of its members.

According to the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), at least one of the messages sent on Saturday threatened to “do a Christ church,” referencing mass shootings that took place in 2019 at two New Zealand mosques that left 51 people dead.

“We have a right to defend ourselves from the terrorists,” one of the messages, provided by the NCCM, reads. “The police will take our side. Islam will not defeat us. We have the guns to do a Christchurch all over again in our office.”

“We have…soldiers who have experience as snipers.”

The downtown Toronto mosque was not named by the NCCM in order to protect them from further threats or attacks.

“Enough is enough,” Mustafa Farooq, the CEO of NCCM, said in a statement issued Monday. “While we greatly appreciate the efforts of Toronto Police Service in conducting an investigation into this particular incident, we need action now from the federal government to develop a national action strategy on dismantling xenophobic groups that preach violent ideologies of hate and violence.”

“Today, we are dealing with threats to murder members of the Toronto Muslim community en masse. What more needs to happen before action is taken?”

Toronto police have said they are investigating the threats and take them “very seriously.”

The threats come one month after a 58-year-old volunteer was stabbed to death outside the International Muslim Organization (IMO) mosque near Rexdale Boulevard and Bergamot Avenue.

The stabbing was called a “brazen act of violence” by the community and members of the mosque called on police to investigate it as a hate crime.

Last week, the NCCM released an open letter to the federal government calling for a national action plan on dismantling white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in light of what they call a “long series of a chain of horrifying attacks on racialized communities in Canada.”

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