JERUSALEM—Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, arrived in Israel Sunday as he kicked off his tour of the Middle East. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his Canadian counterpart to Jerusalem.
PM Harper is accompanied by, according to Canada’s The Star, “15 Conservative parliamentarians, including Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, International Trade Minister Ed Fast and Natural Resources Minister Joe…
Canada’s National Post reported that Muhammad Sharif Odeh, a spiritual leader with the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, met Mr. Harper at the official welcome. Imam Odeh asked the Canadian prime minister to work for peace in the Holy Land, National Post wrote.
“We think Prime Minister Harper can help achieve peace. We respect the Canadian people and government,” he said according to National Post. “He does a very good job in Canada and we hope for the same justice in the Middle East.”
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Israel’s headquarter is based in Kababir, Haifa, a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Ahmadi Muslim Arabs in Haifa, Israel.
The Community built their first mosque on Mount Carmel in 1931, according to Wikipedia, and a larger grand mosque in the 1980s.
The grand mosque known as Mahmud Mosque, with two white minarets standing 34 metres tall, dominates the low-rise skyline of the residential neighborhood on the ridges nearby, Wikipedia says.
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