Meet a Muslim Family aims to create understanding

On a regular basis Canadians hear stories of extreme, often violent acts, carried out in the name of Islam.

This is why the Ahmadiyya Muslim JamaatCanada community has launched a national campaign aimed at creating understanding between Muslim and non-Muslims.It's called Meet a Muslim Family.

Rashid Ahmed is President of the Muslim Student's Association at the University of Saskatchewan.He invited an acquaintance from university and his family over to his house for a meal on Monday.

Ahmed said at first his guest was surprised at the invitation, but agreed to come.

"If you come to our house you can learn our culture and what we do in our daily life andhow are food is," Ahmed said. "Hetried our food, it was a little bit spicy, but he liked it!"

To meet a Muslim family in your neighbourhood, peopleare invited to register.

Ahmed says he wants to show people that most Muslims are good people.

"Due to some recent events [that have] happened, not only in Canada, but all over the world so called Muslim terrorists, they are not actually Muslimso what impacts most of the people is that they have some misconceptions about Islam," Ahmed said.

The campaign is scheduled to run for two weeks.