Activists and supporters of the Hindu Sikh Global Forum hold placards as they take part in a protest near the Canadian embassy in New Delhi on November 10, 2024, against the recent attack on a Hindu temple in the city of Brampton, near Toronto in Canada. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

Canadian Hindu community asks: Where's the police?

Attack on Brampton temple during Diwali has left Hindu community 'traumatized'

by · National Post

Hindus in Brampton, Ont., say Peel Regional Police aren’t protecting them, with recent violence outside a Hindu temple bringing built-up distress to a boiling point.

The attack on the Hindu Sabha temple during Diwali weekend on Nov. 3 “really shocked the community,” says Pushpita Prasad, chief communications officer for the Coalition of Hindus in North America (CoHNA). “It has left us traumatized.”