Khans: Islamic Development and Imam

khans: For the Khans in 1978, that meant finding their way in a province that was predominantly Christian, anglophone, and more than 90 per cent white, according to Brandon Sun. I was an oddball, Khan, the imam and director of the Centre for Islamic Development, says with a laugh. Khan and his family immigrated to Canada's east coast from Pakistan, answering a call for families and well-educated foreigners interested in settling in less populated parts of the country under then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau. I had very good friends and they were mostly all Christians. Khan, who co-founded the mosque about 17 years ago, has watched that change over the last few decades, and has been part of a demographic shift that is slowly changing the complexion of a largely uniform province to include a richer mix of languages, religions and cultural practices. We had a very small pocket of Muslim communities and an even a smaller pocket of Arab communities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.