Ramadan is coming soon. It is expected to start August 21st or 22nd depending on visual moon sighting. For those of you curious as to what it might be like to fast the month of Ramadan, you can live the experience vicariously through one of our speakers. This year, Omar will be posting his Ramadan experiences via our Twitter feed. He will be twittering his daily Ramadan experience from the day of the moon sighting (August 21st, 2009) to the end of Ramadan and the Eid Celebration.

Our twitter feed is located at http://www.twitter.com/islamicspeakers

For more information about Ramadan please see our ramadan information page.

More than 80 per cent of Canada's roughly 700,000 Muslims are broadly satisfied with their lives here and only a very small percentage - 17 per cent - feel that many or most Canadians are hostile toward their religion.

According to a new Environics poll conducted in association with the CBC, a much larger proportion of Canadian Muslims is satisfied with the way things are going today than is the case in Europe. The proportion is greater even than the 61 per cent of Canadians who generally feel their lives are on the right track.

Are we talking past each other? A new poll carried out in conjunction with the CBC suggests just that as it seeks to plumb the attitudes of Canadian Muslims and their fellow citizens toward each other.

Take for example the whole issue of fitting in. The survey by Environics Research Group asks respondents if they feel Muslims coming to Canada want to adopt Canadian customs or remain distinct from the larger society.

For non-Muslim Canadians, 57 per cent feel Muslims want to remain distinct from everyone else - but only 23 per cent of Muslim Canadians feel that way: A full 55 per cent say they want to fit in.