Excerpt: This particular kind of connection led to Khalif Savji’s place as the Chair of the Queen’s Ismaili Muslim Students’ Association (QUIMSA).
As someone who wanted to connect with people similar to him, Savji’s task was made easy because the former members of QUIMSA knew he was coming to Queen’s.
“Because the Ismaili community is so close-knit, a lot of people have big families in the big cities like Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto and a lot is heard through word of mouth,” Savji, ArtSci ’14, said.
During the club’s registration this year, they estimated that there were 60 to 70 Ismaili students signed up on campus.
“We have about 45 in our club right now and a core group of 20 Ismailis that do come to all of our club events,” he said.
Savji’s been a practicing Ismaili Muslim his whole life and he said he always had a choice in his faith.
“I was raised into the religion, but at the same time, I wasn’t told that this is the way it is and that’s the way it has to be — we were encouraged to question,” he said.
via Students keeping their faith in sight – Queen’s Journal.
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