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Human rights tribunal sides with TMU teaching assistant who decried 'desecration by the Jews'

Tristin Hopper: Ayman Elkasrawy’s claim that he had been fired due to Islamophobia was rejected, but the adjudicator ruled that some discrimination may have inflected his dismissal

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has sided with a Muslim former teaching assistant who was fired after publicly denouncing “desecration by the Jews,” awarding him $7,000 for injury to “dignity, feelings and self-respect.”

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Although adjudicator Cyndee Cherniak rejected Ayman Elkasrawy’s claim that he had been fired due to Islamophobia, she nevertheless approved the cash award due to “circumstantial evidence” that some discrimination may have inflected his dismissal.

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In 2016, Elkasrawy was videotaped delivering an Arabic-language prayer at the Masjid Toronto mosque where he called for Jews to be slayed “one by one,” and for none to be spared.

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