Smalltown Canada with a little muslim twist

This .... is brilliant. Wonderful. Great. I was introduced to this series at a wedding of a friend of mine. Her husband is from Canada and so was half of the crowd there and one of those guys talked to me about this series. It's set in the small (fictous) Canadian town of Mercy, Saskatchewan and the viewer is introduced to the problems and struggles a small muslim community is facing when it is trying to establish a mosque - in the parish hall of a church.
"Little Mosque On The Prairie" is a very funny program that I found very entertaining. Of course what we get to see is all cliché all the way. There's Baber, the fundamentalist ecomonics professor who wished that his daughter wears a head scarf. There's the convert muslim wife Sarah, who just can't seem to fit in with the crowd at the mosque. There's her husband Yassir, the contractor who only set up the mosque so that he can have a bureau for his business for free. There's his daughter Rayyan, a doctor who although she is wearing a head scarf is calling herself a muslim feminist. And it doesn't end there. There's the smalltown idiot who just pokes his nose into everything he can find. There's the bigot radio chat show host who senses danger in everything which he can't understand. And there's the understanding priest who gets along pretty well with the liberal iman of the muslim community.
This series has all what it takes for a classic. There is something similar on German television, a series called "Türkisch für Anfänger" (Turkish for beginners). The setting here is a multicultural couple and their four children, who have to cope with each other while living in one house. The Turkish children and the German children stumble into hilarious situations all the time and there's trouble in every episode. I still found "Little Mosque..." a little bit more sarcastic, something that I really like when it comes to topics like this. The way the characters are portrayed really gets you into the story. There is no overlaying storyline, instead each episode is one closed story in itself. But there's always some very dark and hard punchline that just leaves you laughing out loud. I recommend this to everyone who is fed up with all the "terrorist" or "war on terror" headlines. It's some nice 20 minutes of relief.