Haunted Mosque on the Prairie 

It's three weeks until the new Mercy Mosque is officially open, but no one, besides Amaar, seems to know or really seems to care. Even the fact that Yousef bought a new shirt - as nice a ... See full summary »

Director:

Philip Earnshaw

Writers:

Zarqa Nawaz (creator), Rebecca Schechter (developed in association with)

Stars:

Zaib Shaikh, Sitara Hewitt, Debra McGrath

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Zaib Shaikh	...	Amaar Rashid
Sitara Hewitt	...	Rayyan Hamoudi
Debra McGrath	...	Mayor Ann Popowicz
Manoj Sood	...	Baber Siddiqui
Neil Crone	...	Fred Tupper
Arlene Duncan	...	Fatima Dinssa
Brandon Firla	...	Reverend William Thorne
Sheila McCarthy	...	Sarah Cunningham
Jeff White	...	Nate Shore
Jennifer Robertson	...	Poppy (as Jenn Robertson)
Darryl Hinds	...	Yousef
Pardis Parker	...	Omar

Storyline

It's three weeks until the new Mercy Mosque is officially open, but no one, besides Amaar, seems to know or really seems to care. Even the fact that Yousef bought a new shirt - as nice a shirt as it is - is garnering more attention. Rayyan suggests that Amaar get Nate to print a story in the Mercy Chronicle, but making such a story exciting to Nate itself becomes a challenge. The one thing that Nate picks up from Amaar's ramblings about the new mosque site is that a dead body was found in the building many years ago. Amaar, believing any publicity is good publicity, fails to tell Nate the complete nature of that dead body. What Nate ends up printing is that the building the new mosque is located in is haunted. Baber designates himself as the official Jinn exorciser, until Thorne inflicts his own western cultural sensibilities on Baber. Only when Amaar and Rayyan turn to PR maven Sarah, who comes up with a PR stunt, may they be able to show all the Muslims in Mercy that the building is...

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English Arabic

Release Date:

12 March 2012 (Canada)

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Little Mosque Productions, Westwind Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

References The Exorcist (1973)

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