LARISSA CAHUTE, VANCOUVER DESI British Columbia’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community finally has a place to call home. The local and Canada-wide community raised $8 million for their new mosque on Delta’s River Rd. and nearly 5,000 people — including Ahmadiyya Muslim leader from the U.K., Mirza Masroor Ahmed — came out […]
Africa’s ‘Arc of Instability’ From Markham to Mogadishu and London to Nouakchott: A Toronto Star investigation into Africa’s “Arc of Instability” and why westerners are joining the jihad. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—Everyone in Mogadishu knew an attack was imminent. Double agents within Al Shabab had warned Somalia’s security services that something spectacular […]
CALGARY — An internationally-known Muslim leader is visiting Calgary this coming week bringing his message of peace and religious harmony. His Holiness, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya […]
CTV British Columbia. The Ahmadiyya movement was founded in 1889 and has tens of millions of members across more than 200 counties. Thousands gathered in Delta Saturday for the opening of a new mosque, now one of the largest houses of worship for the Ahmadiyya Islamic community in the world. […]
Calgary Herald: By Mario Toneguzzi. “His message is one of peace and religious harmony. He’s been working on better interfaith relations and for human rights.” CALGARY — An internationally-known Muslim leader is visiting Calgary this coming week bringing his message of peace and religious harmony. His Holiness, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, […]
Source: Munir Munawwar of Austria and Fuzail Ayaz Ahmad Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi has a Wikipedia page and I am reproducing the first paragraph from there before the picture, in which they […]
by a Canadian Student: This past weekend, I spent some time in Haifa. While I was there, I had that opportunity to learn about something that I had never thought […]
By Tarek Fatah The Toronto SUN, May 8, 2013 In 2007, Environics conducted a survey about the attitudes of Canadian Muslims. It showed an astonishing 12% of respondents said, if the men in the so-called “Toronto 18” terror plot had succeeded in carrying out their attacks on Canada, they would […]
Source: www.cbc.ca Ahmadiyya Muslims were out to spread a message of peace on the weekend. Local members went door to door to promote the national Love for All, Hatred for None […]
AP | May 04, 2013 | 23:30 SOURCE: JORDAN TIMES TORONTO — A bid by Qatar to relocate the United Nations’ civil aviation agency from Montreal to the tiny emirate has angered Canada, where politicians from all sides vowed Friday to band together to fight the proposed move. The International […]
By: Betsy Powell City Courts reporter, Published on Mon Apr 29 2013 The Toronto Star Can you tell if a person is lying if they avert their gaze, turn red, or blink a lot? No, says a Muslim woman who a judge has ordered to remove her niqab to testify […]
FORT CARSON, Colo. — A female soldier in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war. Pfc. Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge after entering […]
The Vancouver Sun: They are a small religious sect in Canada. But I receive more emails and news releases from the Ahmadiyya Muslims than I do from the rest of […]
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1. Vancouver : 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math. 2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown. 3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations. 4. There’s always some sort of deforestation protest […]
Source: NY Times: A Punjabi show has married Canada’s national pastime with the sounds of the Indian subcontinent, providing a glimpse into the changing face of hockey. Read More:
Aisha Sherazi, National Post Toronto As a Muslim, my own faith journey began when a co-worker committed suicide by hanging himself, using sheets from his bedroom window. He was the life and soul of the party, and I was in my early 20s, young and shocked. I wondered: What happens […]
Source: Toronto Star SASKATOON—If you don’t like gross things, this story is snot for you. An associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Saskatchewan is trying to get more students interested in science by looking at the health benefits of picking your nose and eating it. Scott Napper says […]
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News Muslims helped foil an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to blow up a rail line between the United States and Canada, according to a […]
Source: BBC Canada’s authorities say they have arrested and charged two people with conspiring to carry out an “al-Qaeda inspired” attack on a passenger train. At a news conference, the authorities said the suspects Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested in Montreal and Toronto on Monday. The attacked was […]
Stop praying for defeat of ‘Kufaar’ Every time a Canadian Muslim is named as a suspect, the predictable Islamic clerics line up to deny it Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun First posted: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 06:21 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 06:23 PM EDT Here we […]