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| Canada Muslims erect first Arctic minaret | |
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| Deleted User | Oct 28 2010, 06:47 AM Post #1 |
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Canada Muslims erect first Arctic minaret Canadian Muslims have erected the Arctic's first minaret, atop a little yellow mosque which serves as spiritual home to the area's fledgling Islamic community The mosque arrived in Inuvik last month to serve a growing Muslim population in Canada's far north, after travelling 4,000 kilometres over land and water. The minaret -- built locally and installed this week -- has four levels and stands 10 metres off the ground. "It's really beautiful when we turn on the lights in the dark," Amier Suliman, a mosque committee member, told AFP on Wednesday. Only finishing touches -- applying a second coat of paint inside, and connecting bathroom plumbing -- remain before the mosque's grand opening next week. "This is the first minaret to be erected in the Arctic," Suliman said gleefully by telephone. "Some will say it's a new frontier for Islam," he commented. "But for me, what is significant is that Muslims here who once prayed on Fridays at a local Catholic church or in a trailer, now have a proper place to worship, with a proper minaret." The number of Muslims in Inuvik, a town of 4,000 inhabitants in Canada's Northwest Territories, has grown steadily in recent years to about 80 and they no longer fit in an old three-by-seven-metre caravan previously used for prayers. The congregation could not afford to build a new mosque in the town, where prices for labour and materials were substantially higher than in southern parts of Canada, project coordinator Ahmad Alkhalaf said previously. But they found a supplier of prefabricated buildings in Manitoba that said it could ship a structure to Inuvik for half the price of building a mosque from scratch on site. It was transported via truck and river barge to the town, about 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle for the worshippers -- largely Sunni Muslim immigrants from Sudan, Lebanon and Egypt. link http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1396196/Canada-Muslims-erect-first-Arctic-minaret |
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| Caractacus | Oct 28 2010, 08:24 PM Post #2 |
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Let's just pray to Allah they don't catch frost bite
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British by birth, English by the grace of God. “St George he was for England, and before he killed the dragon, he drank a pint of English ale, out of an English flagon.” "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." | |
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| Deleted User | Oct 28 2010, 08:35 PM Post #3 |
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we could build a big igloo ( about a mile wide ) , call it a mosque , tell them its rent is payed for by the hard working british public , and hopefully some of our problems would emmigrate to the arctic . |
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| Deleted User | Oct 28 2010, 09:51 PM Post #4 |
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The Mo-clones have got to fast from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan. In the arctic the sun never sets in summer. Ramadan is a movable feast and is gradually moving towards summer (the Muslim year is innaccurate, and has fewer days than the Christian year because Allah wasn't as good at astronomy and mathematics as God) Therefore, when Ramadan occurs at midsummer, the mosque congregation could suffer a terminal decline. Allah Akhbar! |
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