Sidrah

Sidrah Atiq, 29, and Michael Wiseman, 31, married in Chicago in 2015, and they found a way to honor the more traditional values of Ms. Atiq’s family while starting their marriage their own way.

Sidrah Ahmad, a student researcher looking at Islamophobic violence faced by Muslim women in Toronto, says Islamophobia in Canada has gradually risen to a boiling point.

On Saturday, while Sidrah Sajad was out shopping in Manchester, where she lives, she heard a man – middle-aged, white – say this to a companion as she walked past.

With Vincent standing behind her, Sidrah knocked on the door.

Sidrah said they had come to exchange cars.