Safwan Choudhry and Campaign Organizers

Muslim Family: The gathering was part of a two-week campaign called Meet a Muslim Family, in which Muslim families throughout Canada invited community members into their home for the purpose of uniting Canadian families and dispelling misconceptions about Muslims and Islam, according to Toronto Star. There one way to learn about Muslims — which is turn on CNN, and you’ll see people on fire and buildings blowing up and bombs being dropped — or, you can actually see real Muslims in your neighbourhood who have been living here for decades, said Safwan Choudhry, one of the campaign organizers. On Sunday, the family invited 14 non-Muslim Canadians to join them for a casual late lunch. Choudhry, 26, and two friends came up with the campaign after witnessing a spate of negative attention on, or negative treatment of, Muslims in the media. Choudhry said he hopes the initiative draws attention to similarities between non-Muslims and Muslims — he mentioned his family interest in skiing and snowboarding and love for Tim Hortons coffee. He pointed to a Quebec judge recent refusal to hear a woman case because she was wearing a hijab and to terror charges laid against Canadians with alleged ties to ISIS. I think any non-Muslim Canadian, hearing all this chatter, surely has to be concerned, if not worried, that like, ‘What is going on ’ he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.