Punjabi • Bengali • Sindhi • Islam is a minority religion in Canada, practised by approximately 4.9% of the population.

Opinion polls show most Muslims feel "very proud" to be Canadians, and majority are religious and attend mosque at least once a week.

[8][9] The first Muslim organization in Canada was registered by immigrants from greater Syria living in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1934.

It was only after the removal of European immigration preferences in the late 1960s and early 1970s that Muslims began to arrive in significant numbers.

The Seminary was established by Mazhar Alam, originally from Bihar, India, under the direction of his teacher the leading Indian Tablighi scholar Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi.

Due to its proximity to the US border city of Massena the school has historically had a high percentage of American students.

Their most prominent graduate, Muhammad Alshareef completed his Hifz in the early 1990s then went on to form the AlMaghrib Institute.

But in general almost every Muslim country in the world has sent immigrants to Canada – from Pakistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania to Yemen and Bangladesh.

According to the 2011 National Household Survey, there were 424,925 Muslims living in the Greater Toronto Area equalling 7.7% of the total metropolitan population, of which the Muslim community consists of persons of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Iranian, African, Arab, Turkish, Bosniak, Albanian, Caucasian, Southeast Asian, and Latin descent.

[29] In addition to Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, nearly every major Canadian metropolitan area has a Muslim community, including Vancouver (73,215), where more than a third are of Iranian descent, Calgary (58,310), Edmonton (46,125), Windsor (15,575), Winnipeg (11,265), and Halifax (7,540).

[1][41] Source: Canada 2021 Census Open Data Release As the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of religious expression, Canadian Muslims face no official religious discrimination but have been victims of many hate crimes which have been increasingly going up.

Under Section 2(a) of the Charter, the wearing of a hijab is permitted in schools and places of work, although Quebec has ruled that medical faculties are not required to accommodate Muslim women who wish to be served by female employees.

[42] Religious holidays and dietary restrictions are also respected, but outside major urban areas it may be difficult to find halal food.

[3] As per the Environics poll, 36% of the Canadian Muslims agreed with the statement homosexuality should be accepted by society which is lower than the general population (80%).

A majority (75%) of the Canadians strongly support allowing Muslim women to wear hijab in public.

In 2023 the Canadian Muslim donor group known as the Network-100 GTA consisting of 400 working professionals pulled financial support from the Liberal Party, who had received over $20,000 prior since 2014, due to residing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

[58] The National Council of Canadian Muslims made a statement during the holiday Ramadan in 2024 with the mention of MPs not being welcome in their places of worship until a ceasefire was enacted.