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![This year's appointment of journalist and anti-racism advocate Amira Elghawaby as the federal government's new Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia sparked a political uproar over a newspaper column she'd written that highlighted anti-Muslim sentiment in Quebec. The number of incidents of Islamophobia reported to the police surged by 71 per cent between 2020 and 2021, according to Statistics Canada. [Capital Current file photo/Alia Youssef]](https://alialashoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/amira-elghawaby-scaled-1.jpg)