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Schoolgirl assaulted by man, police investigating reports

Certain people carry forward the rules and regulations of the religion they follow into the daily aspect of their life. It is one’s personal matter.

A Toronto schoolgirl, Khawlah Noman was assaulted Friday by a man who tried to cut off her hijab with scissors and then fled, police said.

Authorities are investigating the incident, which occurred at about 9 am in or around the Pauline Johnson school in Toronto’s east side, police spokeswoman Katrina Arrogante told an international newspaper

Police said Friday that they are searching for a man they say cut Khawlah Noman’s hijab as she walked to school.

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Toronto Police spokesperson Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu told CP24 the girl was on her way to Pauline Johnson Public School in Scarborough when she felt something and turned around to see a man trying to cut her hijab with a pair of scissors. She screamed and ran away, but the man returned less than 10 minutes later and tried to cut it once again.

The school serves nearly 300 kindergartens to grade six students “of diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds,” according to the local school board.

More than two-thirds speak a language other than English at home.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned an attack on an 11-year-old girl whose hijab was allegedly cut with a pair of scissors.

“My heart goes out the young girl who was attacked, seemingly for her religion,” Trudeau told reporters in London, Ont.

“We all need to remind ourselves of today and every day that we are better than this,” the prime minister added.

 

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