Diversity makes Greater Vancouver’s Islamic ummah far more likely to get along than similar communities elsewhere
By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun
Unlike in other Muslim-majority countries, major religious celebrations in the city tend to be co-sponsored by Shia, Sunni and Ismaili associations — who together welcome other kinds of Muslims (including North American converts to the mystical stream known as Sufism.)
As with Syed, Ismaili Muslim Ali Lakhani believes there are not many “fights in Vancouver of radical-versus-moderate Muslims.”
That is largely because Metro Muslims are not having “their religion exploited in the name of politics,” says Lakhani, a Vancouver lawyer who also publishes a journal called Sacred Web.
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