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Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at community seeks to break misconceptions

Moose Jaw resident Munib Waqas Ahmad,
a member of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, is
pictured in the Moose Jaw Public Library.
 Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald 

By Lisa Goudy

Moose Jaw resident Munib Waqas Ahmad has heard of discrimination of the Islam community in Saskatchewan.

"Not within Moose Jaw, but I have heard of some incidents. I know we have a community in Saskatoon and in Regina as well," he said. "We have a mosque in Saskatoon and some people have made negative comments on the walls of the mosque that, 'Muslims are not welcome here. Go home' et cetera and some people in public have also made negative comments about Muslims."

As a member of the national Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at community, this is exactly the type of discrimination the group is trying to break in regards to the Islam faith.

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