Story out of Edmonton, Alberta:
Staff, students and politicians are speaking out against racism and xenophobia after a series of disturbing posters were spotted on the University of Alberta campus.
The posters feature a photo of a man with a beard and wearing a turban. The headline reads: “Fu*k Your Turban.” Below the photo, the caption reads: “If you’re so obsessed with your third-world culture, go the fu*k back to where you came from!” The hashtags “Non-Integrative” and “Invasion” are also used. The website ImmigrationWatchCanada.org is included at the bottom of the poster.
The group’s website says it wants Canada to “drastically reduce immigration” and believes “it should never be a social engineering experiment that is conducted on Canada’s mainstream population in order to make it a minority.”
Once the university became aware of the posters, they were taken down. Cont. (Video)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weighs in:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is adding his voice to growing condemnation of racist posters that were put up at the University of Alberta targeting turban-wearing Sikhs.
"We're proud of the enormous contributions Sikhs make to this country everyday," Trudeau wrote Tuesday on Twitter.
The university said it removed 12 of the posters found on the campus on Monday, including one at the university's main library. Cont.
Story from - Global News/CBC News
Photo from - Facebook/Laura Porter
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