movement and the Canadian community as a whole.
These organizations mirror identical objectives and
maintain a similar role to the MSA and ISNA
women’s subcommittees that presided in the early
years of the two organizations.
The role of Muslim women in the development
of the Islamic organizations in Canada is one of
remarkable and diverse endeavors. Women have
assisted in building a dynamic Islamic Canadian
community with over 650,000 Muslims. It repre-
sents the history of a people who wish to maintain
a proper decorum between men and women yet
simultaneously align with the community at large.
Despite the challenges created by numerous cul-
tures, languages, races, and over 60 ethnicities
within the Muslim community, Islam provides a
democratic environment for a multiplicity of views
to be thoroughly discussed. Canada, a country
propagating multiculturalism, is a genuine land of
opportunity in which to practice Islam in its purest
form.
In conjunction with the chosen mandates of
each organization and mosque, Muslim women
on mosque executive committees and within core
Canadian Islamic organizations utilize the Qur±àn
and the sunnaas their model for activism. This
influential and formidable activism mirrors out-
standing and influential women at the time of the
Prophet who participated in the rise and develop-
ment of every dimension of the Prophet’s society.
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