Friday prayers a time of mourning for Ottawa Muslim community

When Abdel Felfel told his daughter, Rahmah, that he was going to prayer at the Ottawa Mosque on Friday, the nine-year-old, with thoughts of New Zealand’s mosque shootings fresh in her mind, became very concerned for her father’s safety.
He told her not to worry and assured her that Canada is a much better place and that what happened in Christchurch couldn’t happen here. But Felfel, a trustee of the Ottawa Muslim Association, isn’t convinced that what he told her was tru