Indian Man Lost His Job and Seat in School Council in Canada: Islamophobia

A tweet from an Indian man, Ravi Hooda, against Brampton city's decision to allow mosques the same noise bylaw exceptions as churches has prompted the Peel district school board to remove him from the council chairs and launch a formal investigation into the matter.

A couple of days back, Brampton city hall leader Patrick Brown tweeted that Ontario's commotion ordinance which had been passed in 1984 just had exclusions for chapel ringers. Nonetheless, the exceptions are presently being stretched out to all religions. To put it plainly, this would permit mosques in Brampton to communicate the Azaan or the call to petition during the blessed month of Ramadan. 

To this, a Twitter client named Ravi Hooda answered saying, "What's straightaway? Separate paths for camel and goat riders, permitting butcher of creatures at home for the sake of penance, local law requiring all ladies to cover themselves from head to toe in tents to mollify the piece fools for votes." Ironically, Hooda's Twitter handle makes reference to that he is a migration advisor and furthermore a network volunteer. He has made his



Twitter handle private at this point. Here is a screen capture of his tweet:

However, other Twitter users soon pointed out that Hooda was also an executive school council member at the Macville Public School located in the city of Bolton. In most schools, parents from the school council weigh in on various topics like curriculum, extracurricular activities and so on. The Peel district school board, on coming to know about the tweet, issued a notification saying that they have removed Hooda from the council and that he will not be permitted to participate in any council activities henceforth.

In a statement posted on the school website, the board wrote, "Please know that this individual's views in no way reflect the values of the Macville Public School community, nor those of the Peel board. Comments like these are upsetting and hurtful, and never acceptable."

Hooda also worked at Remax, a real estate company, and someone had tagged the organisation in a reply to the former's tweet. Remax Canada took cognizance of the matter and responded saying that Hooda had been terminated.