Code of Conduct, Objective, and Rules

This group has been a great resource for many of us, and we are really happy how many of us have found our flock away from our homes.

On this page, we’d like to lay out what we are here for, and what purposes this group serves the best.

Objective of the group

This group was made with a singular goal for new and old Indian immigrants to Canada of Muslim faith to connect with each other, and help each other become successful in Canada. All this while being the personal and emotional support to one another.

So, the core focus of this group is to help each other become established, strong, and successful in Canada

With this objective and focus in mind, the group will specifically talk about some topics. A quick look at some examples of such topics is below.

Things we want to talk about

How higher education works in Canada.
Becoming a lawyer, healthcare worker, engineer, marketer, executive etc. in Canada.
Excelling in your career in Canada in North America.
Establishing and running an ethical and successful business in Canada.
Investments and handling your finances right.
How housing works in Canada.
Getting around and traveling in Canada.
How to go about government and other paper work/processes
How to connect professionally and help each other move up the career ladder

It’s also pertinent to note what this group is NOT, to help participants understand what they can and should discuss, and what they shouldn’t.

What this group is NOT:

This group is not a place for religious debates, education, and judgements. We are not here to discuss how to become a better muslim. We believe it’s an individual pursuit and that there are many other ways and avenues where people can learn about it.
Although we value the effects of social and political activism, this group is not a place for it. We will share other groups where such activities go on, aligning with our goals, but in this group we’ll keep the conversation around our focus as mentioned above. We may have surface level discussions about news concerning us and our families, but we don’t want to go deep in political topics.
Promoting violence, extremism of any sort, or any activity that can motivate people to cause physical harm to other people/property.

With that in mind, here are the rules that you should abide by:

Rules

Keeping that objective in mind, please be mindful of the following guidelines, when it comes to posts:

Relevance: Be judicial about what you post. Does it help the above objective and conversation, does it advance it? If yes, great. If no, re-consider posting. Repeated violations of this rule will result in you getting banned from the group.
Jokes: Always welcome, but please never be racist, sexist, misogynistic, or caste-ist through jokes, and don’t go overboard with them.
Forwards: Since it often requires, ALWAYS include your own message with the forwards, so that we know why you’re forwarding that message here. I am sure none of us randomly forward messages here like our Whatsapp Uncles, so just do a little more and explain in your words what the forward is about.
Religious Posts: Please keep it to minimum. We have tonnes of other groups to discuss that, and here, all of us are adults, having our own sources of religious knowledge, and we’re here for the above said objective.
Inclusion: This group does not discriminate or differentiate based on gender, race, caste, mazhab/fiqh etc. So Shia, Sunni, Devbandi, Barelvi, Bohra, Ismaili, Ahmedi, North Indian, South Indian, Eastern, Western and whatever - you are welcome here. Please don’t make any comment about such differentiation. Its a lot easier to have your messages be misconstrued when interacting over text. Lets be aware that some things can create misunderstandings unintentionally, and try to be mature about it.
We all have seen what sectarian divide has done for us, let’s not fall for it again.
Adverts: Feel free to post adverts of services you run or your friends run, or the ones you found online; BUT always post verified information and don’t do blind forwards please. Please do your bit in making sure none of us fall for a scam.
Trigger Warnings: If the content you’re about to post contains violence, blood, gore, extreme graphics, language or anything that can trigger anxiety or extreme emotions in someone, please ALWAYS put a caption BEFORE the content, which says “Trigger Warning: Strong language” etc. So that anybody who wants to avoid reading/watching it, can do so.
Spam: Post anything that passes the above criterion, but just don’t overdo it.
Xenophobia and Fundamentalism: Please don’t post anything which is xenophobic, anti-semitic, racist, anti-white, talks about supremacy of any kind, or is categorized as fundamentalism.
Promotion of Violence: Do not put up posts which promote violence, call to arms, justify violence in the name of religion, promote extremism of any sort, or any activity that can motivate people to cause physical harm to self or other people/property. We’ll ask you to delete the post if posted, or put up a message for other members to delete it if the deletion window has expired. Repeated violations will attract a ban from the group
Language of use in the group: We have people from all over India. Some understand urdu/hindi and some don’t. So lets please try to stick to English as much as possible so that most people can understand what’s being talked about. Once a while switching to our native languages is okay, and we encourage using non-hindi non-english languages too, but please provide translation wherever possible, so that we all learn about each other’s culture too.

Repeated violations of these rules will end up you getting banned from the group.

These rules will be updated if required, but just be respectful, caring, and friendly with each other.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us via the contact form.