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TORONTO — A half-dozen Facebook pages were offline Tuesday following a complaint by Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman, who had raised concerns they were engaged in hate speech against Muslims.

Among them was “Canadians Against Islamization.” Banners bearing the same name were displayed by protesters at a small anti-Muslim demonstration Friday outside a downtown Toronto mosque.

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“It only takes a 30 second Google search to confirm why most of these individuals and groups are a problem in relation to hate speech,” Warman said. “Hate speech has no place in Canada.”

Warman, who has long battled far right websites, had sent a list of suspected Canadian anti-Muslim pages to Facebook following the Quebec City mosque attack that left six worshippers dead.

Facebook has “taken action on those that qualify as hate speech,” a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. While some of the pages were removed, others remained up but specific posts were deleted.