RELIGST 3C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Wahhabism
14 Apr 2015
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After wwii, immigration still highly controlled but in the 50s, some act was passed that allowed a quota of immigrants from countries all over the world. In 1960 something, another bill signed by us president. This resulted in a flux of immigration from all over the worlds after 1964. First mosque in na built in ross, north dakota. 1971, there was a war in pakistan (bangladesh created). Russians invaded afghanistan in 1979 so lots from there too. Canada was recruiting immigrants and wanted people to come in 1970s, especially peeps with skills. With a lot of muslims coming in, you have a lot of mosques and islamic centres being built. Largest muslim population in canada is in toronto but also large populations in montreal, For some reason, some muslims settled in lac la beach. First muslim joined prayer, jamaat, was mentioned to be in a place called ross, which is in. Before 9/11, limited interaction between muslims and non-muslims.
