Dawson College runs a week of multicultural events for students every year - but a booth at this year's event was too much for some.
The Montreal CEGEP's Muslim Students' Association ran the booth to offer information about Islam.
Some female students were also there to explain and demonstrate the purpose of the hijab, the garment which some Muslim women wear to cover their hair (but not their face).
The event was uncontroversial among Dawson students - but after Montreal newspaper Le Journal de Montréal ran a story about the event, it caught the attention of some outsiders to the school.
Members of a Quebec-based right wing group called La Meute (The Wolf in English) began calling Dawson and making complaints on its Facebook page, accusing the CEGEP of "promoting Islam".
The complaints were angry or frustrated in tone, but didn't threaten violence.
Dawson College's Donna Varrica said that to heed the complaints and change an event dedicated to multiculturalism would be against the school's values.
"It goes against the grain of what we do to tell people they can't open a dialogue, that we can't talk about our differences."
Varrica said that similar events, which have happened annually from many years, have gone off without such issues - and it's a sign of the times.
"I think the rhetoric of the last 18 months...with the rise of social media where there's no filter and you can say what you want, that's contributed to a climate of protectionism and of intolerance."
We have students of all backgrounds sitting in classrooms together, talking, having lunch, making new friends, learning about people that aren't just like them. It does come as a bit of a disappointment that this dialogue exists here, but then we are then subjected to criticism from the outside.