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Less than 24 hours after Faisal Hussain opened fire in Toronto’s Greektown, a middle-aged white man approached a visibly Muslim family at the city’s ferry docks, pushed two men and screamed: “Where the f— are you from?”

A video of the racially charged incident appears to begin in the middle of the confrontation as the white man continuously advances toward one of the three men in the Muslim family until they’re forehead-to-forehead. “You don’t ask me a f—ing question in my province,” the man says, shoving one of the Muslim men into a child.

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The confrontation escalates until the white man begins to scream at the Muslim man, who repeatedly told him that he was born in Ontario: “I’ll f—ing kill you… Welcome to Ontario, a–hole.”

On Friday, Lombray Ball, 50, was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and threatening death.

In the wake of the Danforth shooting, there’s been a spike in hate-related incidents targeting Muslims across Canada, according to the National Council of Canadian Muslims. Although the average number of recorded incidents between April and June was 1.5, the Muslim council says there have been five in the past week alone.

When Muslims are at the centre of large-scale violent incidents such as the Danforth and Parliament Hill shootings as perpetrators, the council’s statistics show that hate incidents — anything from verbal and physical attacks to vandalism — spike. The same occurs, the statistics show, when Muslims have been the victims.

“Either way, we can’t win sometimes,” said Leila Nasr, a council spokewoman. “Every time things like this happen, the Muslim community has to go into damage control to somehow defend itself from people who wish to lump everyone into the same category.”