How making their mosque safer is helping Quebec City Muslims turn the page on tragedy

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When visitors approach the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City’s Sainte-Foy neighbourhood, they’re no longer greeted by the large picture windows that used to face the street, before a deadly shooting five years ago.

It’s been replaced with a concrete wall with smaller windows, in case someone tries to ram the building with a truck.

Security cameras face all the entrances, including the one a gunman used on Jan. 29, 2017, when he walked in and opened fire in a prayer room, killing six worshippers and wounding 19.

Mohamed Khabar had stopped by the mosque that night, as he often did after

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