Alex Strachan of CanWest News Service

• ‘Little Mosque’ all about being benign
  “Little Mosque on the Prairie is back, not with a vengeance, and not on a wing and a prayer, but much the way it left, with a gentle, sweet-tempered innocence and good humour. There’s no preaching from the pulpit in this wry parable. Nor, thankfully, is there any preaching to the converted — or preaching of any other kind.” Read more.

Photo courtesy CBC: (from left to right) Yasir (Carlo Rota) and Baber (Manoj Sood)

Bill Harris of Sun Media interviews Zaib Shaikh of Little Mosque on the Prairie:

• ‘Mosque’ star OK with Gemini snub
  “We’re watching a clash of cultures, but it’s not necessarily the one between Muslims and non-Muslims,” Shaikh said. “It’s a small town and Amaar sees himself as a big-city guy who’s saying, ‘Oh, I can negotiate myself into this, or out of this,’ and of course he can’t.” Read more.

Photo courtesy CBC: Rayyan (Sitara Hewitt) new Imam Amaar (Zaib Shaikh) and the town’s original Imam Baber (Manoj Sood).