The Globe and Mail – August 6, 2012 For over two weeks, hundreds of thousands of Muslim Canadians across the country have been observing Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. During the holy month, Muslims abstain from food, drink and other pleasures in daylight hours to commemorate the revelation of the…
News Agencies – January 27, 2011 The Muslim population of Canada will nearly triple over the next 20 years, according to a new study of global demographic trends focusing on the faith. The number of Canadians who identify themselves as Muslim will reach 2.7 million by 2030, up from approximately 940,000 today, and will make…
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has conferred honorary Canadian citizenship on the Aga Khan, making the billionaire spiritual leader to 15 million Ismaili Muslim followers worldwide only the fifth person to be so honored. Aga Khan lives in France. The Prime Minister and the Aga Khan met for a foundation ceremony for a cultural centre,…
Five times a day, Umair Vanthaliwala’s iPhone calls him to prayer. With a flick of a finger, the iPhone’s compass points him northeast toward Mecca. With more than 100,000 applications for iPhone and the iPod touch now available through the Apple App Store and many more to come, it’s clear that Vanthaliwala and his sleek…
The sub-headline of a recent Ottawa Citizen feature report about Muslims in the capital city claimed: ‘Surrounded by suspicion and ambivalence, Ottawa Muslims wonder, When will we belong? And on whose terms?’The author suggests that all 30 or so of the Muslims who were interviewed asked some variation of the question “When will we belong?”…
