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Divorce in the Muslim Community: 2010 Survey Analysis

By Taha Ghayyur If you attended six Muslim weddings this summer, chances are that two will end up in divorce sooner or later. This is based on research conducted in the early 1990s by the late, New York-based sociologist Ilyas Ba-Yunus, who estimated the North American Muslim divorce rate stood

ansar financial group

Co‐op creates model for Muslim home financing

In the co‐operative model, the founders of the Ansar Co‐operative Housing Corporation discovered a way for Muslims living in Canada to purchase homes and make investments in a way that wouldn’t contravene their religious beliefs. Now the model is being adopted around the world. Paying or receiving

David Suzuki

Protecting the planet is a sacred and scientific duty

By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola If we were to judge our priorities by the amount of space devoted to stories in the news, we’d have to figure that the World Cup, controversy at a hot-dog-eating contest, and the shenanigans of Paris and Lindsay were the most important issues.

CAM-D

Public foundation recognizes ‘good works’

The Olive Tree Foundation celebrated community development at its Annual Appreciation Brunch on Sunday June 20, 2010. “Successful public foundations that fund community initiatives can lead to community development,” said Muneeb Nasir, President of the Olive Tree Foundation. The event, titled, ‘Leading Community Development’, recognized the Foundation’s contributions as

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Olive Tree Foundation to fund study on Muslim youth involvement

(June 20, 2010) – The Olive Tree Foundation has announced that it will fund a study by the Tessellate Institute (TTI) on “Canadian Muslim Youth: Concepts of Political Participation.” TTI’s project will be conducted in the context of growing governmental and community concern over the ‘radicalization’ of Canadian Muslim youth.

hajara kutty

When mothers are driven to kill

By Hajara Kutty Does postpartum depression cause mothers to kill? It’s a question some may ask following the triple stabbings last week by a Winnipeg mother said to have been suffering from postpartum depression. Fortunately, the answer is short and simple: No, it doesn’t. The notion that women

council of canadians

Council of Canadians host ‘Shout out for Global Justice!’ during G20 Summit

(June 8, 2010) – The Council of Canadians has announced that the Shout Out for Global Justice [http://www.canadians.org/g20/event.html]public event, scheduled for Friday June 25, will now be held at Massey Hall in Toronto. “Strategically planned between the G8 and G20 Summits of world leaders,

Doha Debates

Doha Debates season ends with comedy debate special

A raucous, often hilarious argument over the relative merits of men and women, ranging from beards to shopping to mothers-in-law, brought the sixth series of Doha Debates to a unique crescendo and left many in the audience weak from laughter. The season finale, debating the motion that “women are superior

American Society for Muslim Advancement

Cordoba House, Ground Zero and overcoming the fear of Islam

By Mehnaz M. Afridi On 6 June some organisations, such as Stop Islamization of America, Jihad Watch and the Tea Party movement, have planned a demonstration in New York to protest the building of a cultural and community centre called the Cordoba House, two blocks from the World Trade Center

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Prof. Hind Al-Abadleh: Reuniting faith and the environment

By Pauline Finch The first time I saw Anglicans and Muslims interacting, even collaborating for one another’s mutual benefit, wasn’t in real life. No, you guessed it; I was watching “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” But amid the laughter and goofiness of it all, there were sparks of

Chin Lee

Toronto’s Muslims step forward to help Special Olympics Athletes

(May 12, 2010) – Toronto’s Muslim community has stepped forward to send Special Olympic athletes from Toronto to the 2010 Summer National Games Muslim organizations, businesses and professionals of the Greater Toronto Area raised $16,000 to sponsor Team Ontario for the 2010 Games. On Sunday May 9, the Islamic

Cairo magazine

‘The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam’ to hit bookstores in June

G Willow Wilson’s hotly anticipated ‘The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam’ comes out in June. The extraordinary story of a young North American’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with an Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of

Aqsa Parvez

Film on honour killing wins top award

(May 8, 2010) – In The Name of the Family, a film by Shelley Saywell, has won the best Canadian feature award at the Hot Docs Film Festival [http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/in_the_name_of_the_family]. The film looks at the story of young women struggling with

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TorontoMuslims launches new website

(May 1, 2010) – TorontoMuslims.com, the site where many Muslims go find out what is happening in the community, has launched a new version of its website. “This web 2.0 ready website will not only keep you informed, but it will inspire you and allow you to share your

Danforth Islamic Centre

Danforth Islamic Centre sets example in fight against malaria

(April 21, 2010) – The Danforth Islamic Centre (DIC) located in Toronto’s east end joined in the Congregations Act [http://congregationsact.com/] to support the Fight Against Malaria campaign and has set an example for other faith communities by tripling its fund-raising target. On Friday April 9, 2010 an awareness

Canadian Medical Association Journal

Ethnic groups show different cardiovascular risk profiles

(April 19, 2010) – There are striking differences in the cardiovascular risk profiles of four ethnic groups — white, Chinese, South Asian and black — living in Ontario, Canada, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). This is the first published study to compare cardiovascular risk factors and heart disease

Abdalla Idris

High school students get ready to be MISTified

(April 18, 2010) – Muslims high school students in the Greater Toronto Area are gearing up to compete in the Muslim Interscholastic Tournament (MIST) to be held on May 21-24 at University of Toronto, St. George Campus. “Over the last three years, MIST has become one of the largest Muslim youth

Greg Mortenson

The fourth cup of tea

By Rafia Zakaria (April 4, 2010) – Greg Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea is the story of a failed American mountain climber’s humanitarian project to build schools in the most underprivileged parts of Pakistan’s northern areas. The book now has a sequel, Stones into Schools, which narrates

Earth Hour 2010

Turn off the lights – help turn off the problem

(March 26, 2010) – On March 27 at 8:30 p.m. the world will turn off its lights for just one hour – Earth Hour – to show it’s possible to take action on climate change. Switching off your lights is just one simple action that you can take to help

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Toronto Faith Communities Respond to the Environmental Challenge

(March 11, 2010) – People of faith came together on Sunday, March 7th at the Green Awakening/Greening Sacred Spaces Annual Leaders Forum to discuss the biggest challenge to the welfare of life on earth – the destruction of the natural environment. “Care for the environment is considered to be the same

Afnan Al Zayani

Celebrating extraordinary Muslim women

By Salma Hasan Ali On 10 March, three Muslim women will be honoured alongside philanthropist Melinda French Gates and human rights activists Panmelo Castro from Brazil and Rebecca Lolosoli from Kenya, by Vital Voices Global Partnership, a Washington, DC-based organisation that works to empower women around the world. The need

Katherine Bullock

Book Review: Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves

In the eyes of many Westerners, Muslim women are hidden behind a veil of negative stereotypes that portray them as either oppressed, subservient wives and daughters or, more recently, as potential terrorists. Yet many Muslim women defy these stereotypes by taking active roles in their families and communities and working

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Islam's role in an ethical society

By Tariq Ramadan Let us agree on this: we live in pluralistic societies and pluralism is an unavoidable fact. We are equal citizens, but with different cultural and religious backgrounds. So, how can we, instead of being obsessed with potential “conflicts of identity” within communities, change that viewpoint to define

Ahmad Kutty

In memory of the Prophet: Why the Prophet Muhammad is my role model?

By Shaikh Ahmad Kutty The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, has touched my heart like no other personality or hero in the world. I have had life long association with his life, his words, actions and behaviour; yet no day in my life passes without my love

Fiqh Council of North America

Fiqh Council – ‘full body scanner is against Islamic teachings’

(February 17, 2010) – The Fiqh Council of North America has issued a ruling against full body scanners which are being installed at airports stating that the devices contravene Islamic law. “The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) emphasizes that a general and public use of such scanners is against the