National Post Article Features Islamic Bookstore in Rexdale Toronto Neighborhood
In this feature examining Toronto neighbourhoods, Rob Roberts explores Rexdale´s Somali Muslim community, stopping in the Hamdi Restaurant and Habib Islamic Books.
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Somali Muslims are calling FBI outreach ‘coercion’
Concerns about racial profiling and other questionable tactics used to investigate the possible terrorist recruitment of Somalis living in the United States are prompting some Muslim leaders in Saint Louis and elsewhere to limit their cooperation with the FBI. Federal agents are intensifying their efforts to make connections and conduct investigations within the Somali community…
Ireland: Handshake costs Muslim volunteer prize
A Muslim asylum seeker in Ireland has been denied an award for his volunteer work after asking organizers that he not shake the hand of the woman presenting the award. Instead, the judges at the National Consultive Committee on Racism and Inter-culturalism decided that someone else should receive the award. The man, Alinoor Ahmed Sheikh,…