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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Canada's first Muslim mayor takes office in cowboy town

From:  Monsters and Critters

Canada's first Muslim mayor takes office in cowboy town

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/americas/features/article_1594771.php/Canada-s-first-Muslim-mayor-takes-office-in-cowboy-town



Montreal - He's Muslim, dark-skinned and has a Harvard degree, but Calgary's newly elected mayor still packs a Stetson cowboy hat in his closet. After all, Naheed Nenshi was elected mayor of a city that prides itself on being the home of the Stampede, the world's largest rodeo show.


Nenshi's election in a city that desperately clings to its roots as a frontier outpost in the Canadian prairies, even as waves of immigration and oil wealth have transformed it into a modern cosmopolitan metropolis, made front page news across Canada . . . .

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