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Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after 9/11

Muslim organizations and academics argue that countering Islamophobia remains largely the responsibility of targeted communities.

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Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after 9/11

What this story says

  • Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, advocates state that Canada has not made progress in tackling Islamophobia.
  • The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada spokesperson said the responsibility for countering Islamophobia largely rests on those it targets.
  • Hate crimes against Muslims in Canada in 2025 were 204, compared to 142 in 2021.
  • The office of the special representative on combating Islamophobia in Canada was eliminated and replaced with a broader advisory council.

Who covered it

Left 52%(13)Centre 44%(10)Right 4%(1)

Percentages are shares of the 24 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 3 of the 27 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

61/100

Hype

20/100

27 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

Only 1 of the 24 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, advocates state that Canada has not made progress in tackling Islamophobia. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada spokesperson said the responsibility for countering Islamophobia largely rests on those it targets. The number of hate crimes against Muslims in Canada in 2025 was 204, compared to 142 in 2021. The office of the special representative on combating Islamophobia in Canada was eliminated and replaced with a broader advisory council. The Canadian government stated that the new advisory council has a mandate to combat racism and hate, including Islamophobia.

Coverage disagreement

The CTV News report states that the office of the special representative on combating Islamophobia was eliminated earlier this year. Digests from other outlets do not specify when the office was eliminated. The CTV News report attributes the elimination of the office to a "slap in the face" for Muslims, quoting Fahad Ahmad, an assistant professor of criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University, and mentions that Ahmad co-wrote an op-ed with Asmaa Malik, a journalism professor at the university. Digests do not include these specific attributions or quotes.

What the coverage left out

No right-rated reports carried this story.

Coverage settled. We checked this 60 times and stopped on 16 Sept 2026, 11:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

13 rated outlets

  • Thirteen left-rated reports carried the story. These reports led on the statement that Canada has not made progress in tackling Islamophobia 25 years after 9/11. They included the figure that hate crimes against Muslims in Canada in 2025 were 204, compared to 142 in 2021. These reports also mentioned the elimination of the office of the special representative on combating Islamophobia and its replacement with a broader advisory council.

Centre

10 rated outlets

  • Eight centre-rated reports carried the story. These reports led on the statement that Canada has not made progress in tackling Islamophobia 25 years after 9/11. They included the figure that hate crimes against Muslims in Canada in 2025 were 204, compared to 142 in 2021. These reports also mentioned the elimination of the office of the special representative on combating Islamophobia and its replacement with a broader advisory council.

Right

1 rated outlet

We have not written our reading of the right coverage of this story. The right-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after…?
Of the 24 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 52% are rated left, 44% are rated centre, 4% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 27. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 24 rated outlets on this story, 52% are rated left, 44% are rated centre, 4% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after… biased?
Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after 9/11 is one event reported by 27 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Advocates say Canada has not progressed on Islamophobia 25 years after…?
27 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What is the current status of efforts to combat Islamophobia in Canada?
Advocates state that 25 years after the 9/11 attacks, Canada has not made significant progress in tackling Islamophobia. The responsibility for countering it largely rests on the communities targeted by it. The office of the special representative on combating Islamophobia was eliminated and replaced by a broader advisory council.
How have hate crimes against Muslims in Canada changed?
The number of hate crimes against Muslims in Canada was 204 in 2025, an increase from 142 reported in 2021. This trend indicates a persistent or growing issue with Islamophobia, according to advocates and experts.
What is the government's response to concerns about Islamophobia?
The Canadian government stated that the new advisory council, which replaced the special representative on Islamophobia, has a mandate to combat racism and hate in all their forms, including Islamophobia. Legislation like the Combating Hate Act is also cited as addressing hate-motivated violence.

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Right

1

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