Muslim women in Calgary and Edmonton has left many in the community feeling anxious and unsafe.“It has been a very traumatic time for those victims as well as for the Muslim community at large,” said Fatema Abdalla, communications coordinator with the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM).In early December, two Somali women wearing hijabs were attacked outside a south Edmonton shopping centre in what police said was a “hate-motivated incident.”Less than a week later, a 23-year-old Black woman wearing a hijab was at an Edmonton transit station when she was approached by a woman she didn’t know.
Without being provoked, police said the suspect allegedly tried to hit the woman in the head with a shopping bag while yelling.