Edmonton Ahmadiyya Muslims participate in national educational campaign

News Agencies – October 12, 2012 Local Muslims will go door-to-door in Edmonton and Leduc, Canada as part of a national campaign to educate Canadians about Islam and dispel misconceptions about Muhammad made in an American anti-Muslim video. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are responding to a call from their spiritual leader in England…

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Anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones barred from entering Canada

News Agencies – October 11, 2012   A Florida pastor made famous by his strident anti-Islam views and widely publicized Koran immolation was barred entry into Canada because border officials had qualms about legal tussles in his past. Terry Jones was supposed to attend a multifaith debate on the film Innocence of Muslims outside Ontario’s…

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Mosque in Poitiers France Stormed by Far Right Protesters

News Agencies – October 20, 2012   Dozens of far right extremists stormed atop an unfinished mosque in western France to show their hostility toward it and denounce immigration that has brought millions of Muslims into the country, a regional official said. About 70 protesters traveled from around France for the demonstration in the city…

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P.E.I. Muslims refuse to be intimidated

News Agencies – October 8, 2012   Zain Esseghaier has been a Charlottetown, Prince Edward Islam resident for the last 33 years, married an islander and raised a family here. Though his modest two-story mosque has been the target of three serious threats over the past year — last week a bottle of gasoline was…

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Suspect killed in shootout during arrest of suspected jihadist cell in France

News Agencies – October 6, 2012   Police carried out raids across France on Saturday after DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam. The man whose DNA was identified, named by police as Jeremy Sydney,…

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