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We're visiting Niagara Falls (highly recommended, by the way) and there are far, far more Muslims here than I have ever seen at any other tourist spot I've been to. There are also a ton of Middle Eastern and South Asian restaurants and that's who seems to own a lot of other businesses here too.

I don't have a problem with it (especially not the restaurants), Muslims can go where they want to go, I'm just not sure what the draw is here specifically. Is there some sort of religious significance to waterfalls in Islam? They aren't praying at the falls, so I don't know if that's it.

Anyway, it's been a great couple of days here so far. I've only been on the Canadian side and I hear the American side is trashy, but the falls are so beautiful and the whitewater walk along the rapids was incredible and, of course, everyone is so nice here.

Edit: I just looked, there are two mosques, an Islamic society and an Islamic cultural center in the city. The population is around 88,000 people. Maybe Canada has more Muslims than the U.S. and that's it?

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[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am asking why there are so many Muslims in a specific place in Canada. As I said in my edit, there are two mosques here, an Islamic cultural center and an Islamic society. The population is 88,000 people. You don't think that is an unusual number for North America?

Now, I do see that Muslims are 5% of the Canadian population vs. 1% of the American population, so that could be it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah Canada has been welcoming a lot of Muslims in for various reasons for a long time. Lots of refugees from the Syrian civil war ended up in Canada. My parents became good friends with a family who came over from a refugee camp in Jordan almost a decade ago.

Edit: also, not that we're perfect or anything, but Canadians are on average a lot less phobic of the Middle East compared to the US.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago

That makes a lot of sense. Canada is a welcoming place for refugees.