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Ethnic group
The Shia Eid Prayer by Grand Ayatollah Reza Hosseini Nassab in Toronto, Canada. There are around 300,000 Shia Muslims (including Twelvers and Ismailis ) in Canada out of approximately 850,000 Muslims in Canada . Most of them are Iranians , Pakistanis (also from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda), Indians (also from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda), Afghans , Iraqis , Syrians , Lebanese and Azeris .
Notable Canadian Shia Muslims
Reza Hosseini Nassab - Grand AyatollahAmir Attaran - Canadian lawyer, immunologist, and law professorLeyla Milani - Canadian model, actress, TV host and fashion designerAnisa Mehdi - an Emmy Award winning film director and journalistHassan Khosrowshahi - founder of Canadian electronics retailer, Future ShopAmir Khadir - politician in the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), CanadaMaziar Bahari - Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activistFarid Haerinejad - documentary maker and bloggerMobina Jaffer - Canadian Senator representing British ColumbiaRahim Jaffer - former Canadian politician and a former Member of ParliamentRizwan Manji - notable for his role as Rajiv in the now cancelled NBC Universal TV series OutsourcedFarah Nasser - Canadian journalist with CablePulse24 Naheed Nenshi - current mayor of Calgary, AlbertaTaleeb Noormohamed - President & CEO of SerebraYasmin Ratansi - Canadian politician and a Member of ParliamentOmar Sachedina - Canadian television journalist, currently a news anchor and reporter for the CTV Television Network.Aliza Vellani - Canadian television actress, who played the role of Layla Siddiqui in Little Mosque on the PrairieAli Velshi - Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNNAlykhan Velshi - lawyer, policy analyst, and ministerial assistantMurad Velshi - former politician in Ontario, Canada.
See also
References
Shia Islam in North America
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