Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Ismailis in the News - Food drive bridges the divide - Toronto Star

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Abdulsultan Madhani and Helena Houldcroft sort food donations. (Oct. 11, 2009)
RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR FIL

The Sunni and Ismaili Muslims of Flemingdon Park share the same faith and pray a few blocks from each other in Thorncliffe Park.
But it took a crisis at the local food bank to bring the two branches of Islam to work together in a common cause, alongside their Christian neighbours, in the East York community.

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