March 20, 2026 10:41 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Mamata unveils TMC candidate list for Bengal polls; to face Suvendu in Bhabanipur | ‘Not a one-day battle for me’: Mamata Banerjee on facing Suvendu Adhikari in Bhabanipur | Mamata vs Suvendu: Bhabanipur set for high-voltage showdown | Barbaric: India condemns Pakistani airstrike on Kabul hospital | Middle East conflict: Israel says it killed key Iranian commander during overnight strike | Middle East on edge: Kataeb Hezbollah commander Abu Ali al-Askari killed | Middle East on edge: Kataeb Hezbollah commander Abu Ali al-Askari killed | Afghanistan claims Pakistani airstrike on Kabul hospital left 400 killed, Islamabad denies | ECI orders major reshuffle in Bengal police brass a day after poll announcement | 10 patients killed in fire at SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack; staff injured

Official celebration of October Islamic Heritage Month in Ontario

| | Oct 09, 2016, at 03:29 am
Toronto, Oct 8 (IBNS): The legislature of Ontario had unanimously passed an act for the official recognition of the month of October to celebrate Islamic Heritage in Ontario, reports said.

Ontario Provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said that celebration of Islamic Heritage Month would nurture learning of the history of Islamic culture.

Keeping in mind the recent incident of a fire set at a mosque, Horwath feels that the celebration of Islamic Heritage month would initiate elimination of Islamophobia.

Canadian Islamic History Month had been officially recognized federally since 2007. Fareen Khan, with the International Development and Relief Organization who joined Horwath at the legislature said that the positive contributions to Muslims should be highlighted.

Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the current and fifth caliph and leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community learnt about this news in Toronto, where he is attending a three-day Islamic convention. According to reports Ahmad will deliver a sermon via the global satellite TV network Muslim Television Ahmadiyya to Muslims all over the world and to thousands of attendees representing more than twenty countries.


(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)

 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.