{"id":37921,"date":"2018-01-13T20:12:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37921"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:52:14","slug":"whats-not-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2018\/01\/13\/whats-not-canada","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s &#8220;not Canada&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/images\/toronto-sun-hijab.jpg\" title=\"Front page of the Toronto Sun, today\" alt=\"A front page from the Toronto Sun showing a picture of a young, light-skinned girl wearing a white hijab with the headline &quot;It's just not Canada&quot;, with (in smaller letters) &quot;Mom of 11-year-old girl attacked for wearing hijab says 'This is not who we are'.&quot;\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;x\" \/>This is a front page from today&#39;s <em>Toronto Sun<\/em> about the 11-year-old girl who was attacked in the street by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/police-school-hijab-1.4484501\">man who cut her hijab<\/a> with a pair of scissors as she walked to school in the morning. The paper tweeted the image and it&#39;s been doing the rounds on social media. The sub-heading quotes the girl&#39;s mother saying &quot;this is not who we are&quot;. But &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The page prominently features a young girl wearing a headscarf and the slogan &quot;It&#39;s just not Canada&quot;. I&#39;m sure that will strike a very different chord with many readers to the one intended. <!-- QTM hash: b280e58627944e0f1fbfcdd076ac6ddf25e67ec4 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a front page from today&#39;s Toronto Sun about the 11-year-old girl who was attacked in the street by a man who cut her hijab with a pair of scissors as she walked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamophobia","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9RD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40842,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37921\/revisions\/40842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}