The S hica Imami Ismacili Community in Canada

Abstract

For almost thirty years, the Shica Imami Ismacili community in Canada has been remarkably active and diverse in terms of countries of origin, ethnicities, and languages. However, at issue is the backdrop of the Canadian policy of multiculturalism, which has incited assimilatory threats to the Ismacili collective identity, despite its role of establishing the community in its pluralism. The following deals with this paradoxical positioning of the minority Ismacili community in the construction of multicultural Canada.