By Sukaina Jaffer in Toronto, ON On the March 18th, a Sheikh, a rabbi, a Member of Parliament (MP) and a reverend gathered at a…
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Attitudes of Immigrants: From Helwi Hamdoun to Nabil Warda
Last summer, I had an interesting debate with a young, well-travelled Qatari friend in Doha. Not unlike millions of others around the world, he was…
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Muslim-Canadian Women Concerned About Discrimination
When Sheema Khan told audience members at the Aga Khan Museum that the men sitting at one of her last lectures refused to face her,…
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Commentary by Hasan Zillur Rahim in San Jose, California Five days after the bodies of Golam Rabbi, 59, and Shamima Rabbi, 57, were discovered at…
View More How Well Do We Know Our Kids?Without Placement, Refugees in Toronto Hotel Remain in Limbo
It had been such a whirlwind process, Zuhir says of the journey that he and his family took earlier this year from Jordan — where…
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Wynne Makes Appeal for Acceptance at Ottawa Mosque
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made a broad appeal for acceptance at a visit to an Ottawa mosque for Friday prayers last week. Wynne stopped by…
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Documenting Muslim History in Saskatchewan
Ever since Muslims began settling in the Canadian prairies, they’ve built bridges with their new community while maintaining their ties with their traditional culture. A…
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Growing up Muslim: An Individual Story, a Universal Tale
by Zarqa Nawaz in Regina I asked Anton Leo, the head of comedy for CBC Television, why he had decided to green-light “Little Mosque on the…
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by Abbas Somji (@abbassomji) in Calgary For some Muslims in Canada, the events of Sept. 11 cling to their collective memory like a dark stain,…
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by Amira Elghawaby “You can’t be what you can’t see.” — Marian Wright Edelman, human rights activist I can’t begin to imagine…
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