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{{Infobox Television| bgcolour =| show_name = Little Mosque on the Prairie| image = | caption = Little Mosque on the Prairie logo.| format = Comedy| developer =| executive_producer =| starring = [Zaib Shaikh
Carlo Rota
Sheila McCarthy
Sitara Hewitt
Manoj Sood
Arlene Duncan
Debra McGrath
Derek McGrath| network = [CBC Television, [2007 [sitcom on CBC Television created by Zarqa Nawaz. The series focuses on the Muslim population of the fictional rural Canadian Prairies town of Mercy, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan.

Title The title alludes to the classic American book and drama series, Little House on the Prairie (TV series). The two series are not related, aside from the use of a modified version of the title logo.

Cast and personnel Although the show focuses on Islam in Canada, the only Muslim actor in the cast is Zaib Shaikh, who plays the imam (prayer leader), Amaar.

The cast includes:

Amaar Rashid - (Zaib Shaikh) - the imam at the mosque. He tends to support liberal movements in Islam. He is originally a lawyer from Toronto hired by Yasir for less than minimum wages.
Yasir Hamoudi - (Carlo Rota) - a contractor who runs his business out of an office at the mosque, he is a practical man who seeks compromise. He puts in an effort to observe his religion, but he tends to slip up on occasion.
Sarah Hamoudi - (Sheila McCarthy) - a convert to Islam who is more devout than her husband Yasir but less so than her daughter Rayyan. She works as a PR rep to the mayor.
Rayyan Hamoudi - (Sitara Hewitt) - Yasir and Sarah's daughter, a doctor. She follows Islamic feminism, keeps the sartorial hijab, and takes her religion very seriously. Her Western medicine are met with disapproval by Fatima, who uses traditional Nigerian remedies.
Baber Siddiqui - (Manoj Sood) - a widowed college professor and the most conservative member of the Muslim community in Mercy. His conservatism often conflicts with the wishes of his teenage daughter to the point where most of his acquaintances consider him obnoxious. He calls most non-Muslims "imbeciles", "heathens", and other derogatory names.
Fatima Dinssa - (Arlene Duncan) - the widowed owner of a diner, she has conservative views toward Islam. She often conflicts with Fred Tupper, and she hates the Mercy Diner, her competition.
Rev. Duncan Magee - (Derek McGrath) - the minister of the Anglican Church which also houses the mosque, he is helpful to Amaar when he first arrives. He often laments the sad state of his church and congregation.
Mayor Ann Popowicz - (Debra McGrath)-- the mayor of Mercy, who supports the Muslim community in return for their vote.
Fred Tupper - {Neil Crone) - the local bigot and the host of a talk show on the local radio station, he often Islamic terrorism who want to take over the country. Despite this, he still finds time to go into Fatima's diner.

The first season was directed by Michael Kennedy (director).

Plot This is the story of the Muslim population in the fictional town of Mercy, Saskatchewan. The show derives much of its humour from the interactions of the Muslims with the non-Muslim townspeople of Mercy and by the contrast of Conservatism Islamic views (held primarily by the characters of Baber and Fatima) with more Liberal movements within Islam (as represented by Amaar and Rayyan).

History The show premiered on Tuesday, January 9, 2007, at 8:30 p.m. It airs Wednesdays at 8:00 and repeats the following Monday at 9:00 (all times half an hour later Newfoundland Standard Time Zone). The Monday, January 15 broadcast was a repeat of the pilot.

Unusually for a Canadian television series, Little Mosque received extensive advance publicity in international media, with stories appearing in The New York Times, the Washington Times and the Houston Chronicle, as well as on CNN, NPR and the BBC.

The series premiere drew an audience of 2.1 million — an exceptionally strong rating for domestic programming in the Canadian television market, and on par with Canadian ratings for popular American series. By comparison, Corner Gas, one of the highest-rated Canadian TV shows, attracts just under a million and a half viewers for a typical episode. The second episode, airing against the second night of the much-anticipated season premiere of American Idol in most markets, had 1.2 million viewers, a sharp drop but still a high rating for a Canadian sitcom.

At the end of the show's season on 7 March 2007, the show attracted 1.1 million viewers, or an average of 1.2 million for the season. CBC Television has renewed the show for a second season consisting of 20 episodes. These will begin airing on October 3, 2007.

International syndication On May 8, 2007, it was announced that the show would be airing in France, Switzerland, and Francophone (French-speaking) African countries beginning in July. The French television company Canal+ Group will distribute the show's first season in July to non-subscribers of Canal+, a channel to which viewers must subscribe in order to watch. French voice-actors will dub the show.

On September 26, 2007, CBC announced that the show would soon air in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Dubai, Finland and Turkey. On October 2nd, 2007, Al Jazeera English confirmed that both the United Arab Emirates and Finland had signed deals to begin airing the series in 2008.

Trivia

Although the show Little Mosque on the Prairie is set in the prairie, the show is mostly filmed in Ontario. Episodes 1 and 2 were filmed in Regina, Saskatchewan, but the rest of season 1 was filmed in the Toronto area.
In "The Archdeacon Cometh", the Archdeacon mentions having to "shut down a church in Dog River, Saskatchewan", referencing Canadian sitcom Corner Gas on rival network CTV Television Network. Carlo Rota and Sheila McCarthy, in character as Yasir and Sarah, also later appeared in a fictional crossover with Brent (Brent Butt) and Hank (Fred Ewanuick) from Corner Gas on the Canadian sketch comedy series Royal Canadian Air Farce, debating the location of Mercy and Dog River (both fictional towns) in relation to each other.