Ceremony honours memory of men killed at Quebec City mosque, warns of rising hate
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Seven years after the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque, Boufeldja Benabdallah's voice broke as he spoke about the killing of six men who had come there just to pray.
Seven years after the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque, Boufeldja Benabdallah's voice broke as he spoke about the killing of six men who had come there just to pray.
They weren't praying for themselves, Benabdallah, the co-founder of the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre, told attendees Monday at a ceremony commemorating the victims of the Jan. 29, 2017, attack. They had been thanking God for the blessings they saw in the world when a gunman entered the mosque.
"Within two minutes, he fired 48 bullets, taking the lives of six fathers and wounding five others," Benabdallah said.
Speakers at the annual ceremony called for the attack to be remembered so it is not repeated and warned of rising hatred toward Muslims in Canada.
"We cry to remember this moment and to say that these are significant moments, moments that must never return to humanity," Benabdallah said.
Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzedine Soufiane and Aboubaker Thabti were killed at the mosque shortly after evening prayers.
