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- ↑ "Muslim organisations against ganja decriminalisation". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- ↑ Svanberg, Ingvar; Westerlund, David (2012-12-06). Islam Outside the Arab World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-11322-2.
- p. 318, Sociology of Religion in India, Rowena Robinson, Sage Publications, 2004. ISBN 0-7619-9781-4.
- Denominational primary schooling: The case of Trinidad and Tobago, Clayton G. Mackenzie, International Review of Education37, #2 (June 1991), pp. 211–226.
- ASJA condemns Danish cartoons, Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday, February 4, 2006.
