Ahmadiyya mounts new campaign ‘We are all Germany’

With roughly 10 to 20 million members, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) comprises only one per cent of the worldwide Muslim population. The Ahmadiyya’s growth in Germany In Germany, too, the Ahmadiyya represents roughly 1 out of every 100 Muslims, counting approximately 45,000 members. This still makes the German Ahmadi community the largest in Europe,…

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Two L.A. gang members are apparently fighting for Syria’s Assad

March 3, 2014   Two Los Angeles gang members appear to have joined the flow of foreigners flocking to fight in Syria – in this instance, on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. In a video posted online, the two men boast that they are on the front lines and fire their guns in the…

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Shia-Sunni cemetery to open in the Greater Toronto Area in the fall

Toronto Star – January 31, 2011 A Shia-Sunni Muslim cemetery — the first of its kind in the GTA — is in the works in Richmond Hill, Ontario and could be operational by fall. The Shia and Sunni communities in the GTA bought the 14-hectare site at the southwest corner of Bethesda Sideroad and Leslie…

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New Book Chronicles Heterogeneity of Canadian Muslims Through Photographs

Canada, a Photo Journey Among Muslims (Pandora Press, 2009) chronicles the three-quarters of a million Muslims in Canada and they come from across the world and all the varieties of Islam. Most are Sunni Muslims, but there are Shia, Sufi, Ismaili, and secular Muslims.

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