There are about 30,000 Ahmadis in the GTA and 20,000 more across the country, said Ahmadiyya Muslim Community spokesman J.T. Lone.
Source/Credit: The Star
By Melinda Maldonado | August 7, 2013
Days before Eid, a Woodbridge family marks the holy month like millions of others, with a little karate and bangle-jingling thrown in.
In a matter of minutes, the kitchen went from karate chops to a place for quiet readings of the Qur’an.
When Masroor, 6, and his sister Areej, 9, bounced in Tuesday evening from karate practice, they traded their uniforms — a yellow belt for Masroor, purple for Areej — for a colourful prayer cap from Uzbekistan and a black headscarf.
The siblings traced their fingers, right to left, over Arabic script on the third-last night of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting during daylight hours. Their parents, Mansoora Chaudhery and Mubarak Ahmed, who were born in Quetta, Pakistan, hadn't eaten in 16 hours.
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