{"id":5908,"date":"2018-05-23T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5908-toronto-mayor-slams-islamophobic-hate-graffiti-at-muslim-school\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:27:47","slug":"toronto-mayor-slams-islamophobic-hate-graffiti-at-muslim-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5908-toronto-mayor-slams-islamophobic-hate-graffiti-at-muslim-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto mayor slams Islamophobic hate graffiti at Muslim school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two elected officials shocked at hate graffiti sprayed on a Canadian Toronto-area Muslim school wall stepped forward Tuesday to help clean off the offensive remarks.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Two elected officials shocked at hate graffiti sprayed on a Canadian Toronto-area Muslim school wall stepped forward Tuesday to help clean off the offensive remarks.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe first thing I thought is \u2018I can\u2019t let the kids see this tomorrow morning.\u2019 It\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s not who we are,\u201d said Glenn De Baeremaeker, councillor for Scarborough Centre, who was out riding his bike when he noticed the red and black spray-painted messages on the exterior walls of Wali ul Asr school, East Campus, on Torrance Road, near Eglinton Avenue East and McCowan Road, Scarborough.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI can\u2019t imagine a 5-year-old or 10-year-old innocent child coming to school and parents having to walk past this type of hateful, racist graffiti,\u201d he said.<\/h4>\n<h4>Police are investigating after the expletive-filled anti-Muslim graffiti was spray-painted on the brick wall at Wali ul Asr school, which has several campuses in Ontario ranging from kindergarten to Grade 12.<\/h4>\n<h4>Toronto Mayor John Tory was quick to condemn the act.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThis hatred is unacceptable at any time, but it is disturbing someone would choose to do this during Ramadan,\u201d Tory said on Twitter. He also thanked the pair of councilors who helped remove the graffiti before students arrived at school.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two elected officials shocked at hate graffiti sprayed on a Canadian Toronto-area Muslim school wall stepped forward Tuesday to help clean off the offensive remarks. \u00a0 Two elected officials shocked at hate graffiti sprayed on a Canadian Toronto-area Muslim school wall stepped forward Tuesday to help clean off the offensive remarks. \u201cThe first thing I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[128,209,205,357],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada","tag-islamophobia","tag-muslim","tag-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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