Fawaz Abu-Khadijeh, a cabdriver who is a regular at the mosque, recalls Sheik Safwat asking him for curtains to further seal off the women's prayer area, then separated from the main hall by an eight-foot wall.

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Seal hunt co-ordinator Roger Simon, while acknowledging it is not a main source of revenue for people in Atlantic Canada, still characterises the commercial hunt as important for fishing communities and for the aboriginal Inuit people further north.

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