Brian Semple never leaves his Quebec City home to pray at the mosque without his cellphone anymore. Community members say that the initial reaction of Quebecers and Canadians — a very public display of sympathy and tolerance toward the Muslim community — has not endured. “It took, perhaps, a couple of months.”Stéphane Leman-Langlois, a professor of criminology at Université Laval in Quebec City, said there were two broad types of reaction to the mosque shooting. The first included those shocked by the deadly violence who expressed their solidarity with Muslims in Quebec. She said an intolerant atmosphere in Quebec City is having an impact on the morale of a Muslim community struggling to recover from the tragedy.

Source: thestar January 28, 2018 17:42 UTC