MUSLIM WOMAN SUING TWO PEOPLE AND A WEBSITE CLAIMING THEY DEFAMED,RUINED HER REPUTATION AND CREATED HATE TOWARDS AFTER SHE SPOKE OUT AGAINST SECULAR CHARTER (CANADA)

The Parti Québecois and its divisive charter of values may have been decimated at the polls last month but bitter feelings continue over the proposed law that would have banned religious garb on public servants.



A Muslim woman, who describes herself as a sociology student and staunch feminist, is suing two people and a website for $120,000 for what she alleges are defamatory things they wrote and said about her after she spoke out last fall against the charter on a popular Quebec talk show.



Dalila Awada claims Philippe Magnan, one of the defendants, posted videos and messages on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and his own blog about Awada after she appeared on Tout le monde en parle on Sept. 29, 2013.



In her lawsuit, filed in Quebec Superior Court last week, Awada claims the video accused her of infiltrating the Quebec Federation of Women to advocate in favour of the niqab.



The student at Université du Québec à Montréal claims the video says she associates with groups that she says she has no links to, such as the World Islamic League, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Canadian Islamic Congress.



After the video appeared online, Louise Mailloux, an anti-religion CEGEP professor who compares male circumcision and baptism to rape, sent out numerous emails containing erroneous information about Awada, the lawsuit claims.



It also claims that the website Vigile.net published several pejorative articles about Awada that she says paints her as a manipulator working for Muslim fundamentalists.



Awada, a 24-year-old who chooses to wear the hijab, said people reacted to the video by posting hateful messages by email or on her Facebook page.



In a second video, Awada claims her image is used in a way that suggests she's associated with stoning, decapitation and cutting off hands. Another suggests she is infiltrating the separatist party Québec solidaire.



By posting defamatory and erroneous information about her over a period of six months, the defendants tried to ruin Awada's reputation and created hate toward her, the lawsuit claims.



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