News Agencies – January 6, 2012 Little Mosque on the Prairie, the gentle CBC satire about a Muslim community in the fictional small town of Mercy, Sask., that will be entering its sixth and final season on Monday. “We all know, in this industry, that every show has a life span,” says Manoj Sood who…
The Toronto Star – January 6, 2012 When Little Mosque on the Prairie starts its sixth (and final) season this week on the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation), it will close the most important chapter to date in the rapidly rising career of its leading man, Zaib Shaikh. The 37-year-old Pakistani-Canadian actor, director and producer has…
News Agencies – January 5, 2012 A second attack in three days on a local mosque is prompting renewed calls for a hate-crime investigation from a Canadian Muslim organization. The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations urged the move after the mosque was found spray painted with hate messages earlier this week. The attack follows the…
News Agencies – January 5, 2012 With a roof designed to look like a floating sheet of silk, a reference to the Islamic headscarf, a new wing of the Louvre housing Islamic art is nearing completion. The project to house the Paris museum’s well-regarded collection of Islamic objects was launched by former president Jacques Chirac…
News Agencies – January 2, 2012 France’s interior minister says that since a ban on face-covering Islamic veils took effect in April only six women have been convicted and fined. Claude Gueant said in an interview that no woman has been sent to a citizenship class — another potential punishment. Gueant says police cited…
