Mustafa Mattan Shooting: Muslims React To Murder In Canada ‘Ignored’ By Mainstream Media

posted on: Feb 17, 2015

The day before three young Muslims were shot and killed in their apartment building in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a Muslim man in Canada suffered a similar fate. Mustafa Mattan, 28, was fatally shot Monday night inside the apartment he shared with his brother and roommates in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

No arrests have been made in the case, and Muslims on both sides of the border have expressed their outrage on Twitter. Some have indicated Mattan’s death was the result of a hate crime and therefore have voiced concern for the safety of members of the Muslim community. Others have decried the comparative lack of media coverage of Mattan’s death relative to that of the Chapel Hill shooting:

Source: www.ibtimes.com