Via Rail is apologizing after a video surfaced online of a Muslim man being told he couldn’t pray inside the Ottawa train station, but the National Council of Canadian Muslims says an apology isn’t enough.
The video, which was posted on the social media platform TikTok on March 20, shows a man wearing a reflective vest marked ‘security’ approaching a man in a black sweater seated in a waiting area.
“You wanted me to say something?” the security guard asks the man.
“That I took two minutes to pray? What was your issue?” the man in the sweater asks.
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Then the security guard is heard saying, “Don’t pray in here. We don’t want