February 9, 2011

• Grave News from Toronto

  Following the heartening news of Egyptian Christians and Muslims working together for their county’s freedom, It’s good to note that Toronto also boasts a new example of inter-faith tolerance and cooperation.

   

  GTA’s first ever Shia-Sunni cemetery opens
  Wednesday January 26 2011 By NOUMAN KHALIL
  
  For the first time in the history of the Greater Toronto Area, the Muslim community has managed to acquire its own cemetery where a person can be buried according to Islamic principles and philosophy.
  
  Setting an example to the entire world, the GTA’s brotherly Shia and Sunni communities pooled $3.4 million each to purchase a 40-acre parcel of land from the Jewish community. The area, situated at the corner of Bethesda Road and Leslie Street, thus becomes the first ever Muslim cemetery of the region.
  
  “It’s like a dream come true,” a jubilant Abdulhaq Ingar, board member of the newly established Toronto Muslim Cemetery Corporation, told Focus in an exclusive talk in Toronto this week.”After a long, long struggle and hard work, we managed to establish our own cemetery. I think that’s a big achievement for all of us,”
  said Ingar, who represents the Sunni’s Islamic Society of Toronto.
  
  “We have finally accomplished a long-term desire, for which our community was trying for many, many years,” added Sabi Ahsan, one of the GTA’s Muslim leaders who played a key role from the Shia side, working together wiht the Islamic Society of Toronto.

   

  I too wish to join in congratulation, and wish these worthy gentlemen a long life to enjoy their new facility.

   

   

                                              
  

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