Police investigating woman’s desecration of Quran in Ontario, Canada

Peel Regional Police in Southern Ontario, Canada, say they are investigating an incident as “hate-motivated” after a woman can be seen on video at a Mississauga Islamic center appearing to tear the pages of a Quran and putting the pages on cars while calling the religious text “Satanic.”

 

Peel Regional Police in Southern Ontario, Canada, say they are investigating an incident as “hate-motivated” after a woman can be seen on video at a Mississauga Islamic center appearing to tear the pages of a Quran and putting the pages on cars while calling the religious text “Satanic.”

The incident happened at the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, near Highways 403 and 401, just after 5 p.m. on Thursday.

In a 10-minute video obtained by Global News, after it was posted and subsequently deleted on the Never Again Canada website, a woman who identifies herself as Sandra Solomon said she is visiting mosques “to educate as many as we can people about the true face of Islam.” She said she wants to see the Quran designated as “hate literature.”

She said she has been going to mosques for more than a year and contacting imams.

Rabia Khedr, executive director of the Muslim Council of Peel (MCP), told Global News on Sunday that Solomon is a known “Islamophobe and anti-Muslim activist” who has been travelling across the country and has disrupted a “handful” of mosques in the Peel region.

It has been confirmed that Solomon visited two other mosques in Mississauga the same day as the incident at Dar Al-Tawheed.