This is about as tragic as it gets when no one is physically injured, a beautiful 11 year old girl on the way to school with her brother accosted by a man wearing a black hoodie wielding scissors:
“An 11-year-old Toronto girl says a man attempted twice to cut off her hijab as she walked to school on Friday morning, and police are now characterizing the attack as a hate crime.
"I felt really scared and confused," Khawlah Noman, a student at Pauline Johnson Junior Public School in Scarborough, Ont., said at a news conference Friday afternoon.
Khawlah said she felt the man behind her while she was walking to school with her younger brother, Mohammad Zakariyya, and turned around and saw him holding scissors. She says she screamed and he ran away, but returned a few minutes later.
"He continued cutting my hijab again" before smiling and running away, said Khawlah.”
Khawlah’s hijab is a lovely garment and totally appropriate to any sane person for a young girl to wear on her way to school.
Unfortunately, thanks to the efforts of he who shall here go nameless and those who support him, our society, as well as that of our neighbor to the north, is spiraling beyond the bounds of sanity.
Fortunately Khawlah’s friend had a spare hijab to loan her so she could continue her day…
But who can restore the sense of safety and security she once felt walking to school?
Every single act such as this steals a bit of our collective humanity.