Intercultural Dialogue Institute and Responsible Citizens

liberal Muslim group: Conference attendees hailed from all faiths too, according to Rabble. The Intercultural Dialogue Institute, which organized the Responsible Citizens Looking to the Future event, is a liberal Muslim group intent on promoting religious harmony. Looking up at him were faces from Calgary and all parts of the globe -- the city multicultural urban mix. Mayor Nenshi said he started that day presiding over a big public forum about imminent plans to receive and settle 10 Syrian refugee families a day, more than a thousand Syrian refugee families altogether. They lived in a basement apartment. "There were a total of five Ismaili Muslim families in Toronto at that time," he said. "My mother would get up on Friday morning and wash her bedsheets by hand, and hope they dried before evening. Nenshi recalled how his own parents, Kurbanali Hussein and Noorjah, had emigrated from Tanzania with nothing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.