1. So whether you wanna dance ‘til sun–up on Crescent Street or just take a stroll through Old Montreal and catch a little taste of our rich history, you will never be bored.

2. Sylviane Diouf, researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, said that one of the most important legacies from the early Muslims is the "triumph of the human spirit." "Imagine yourself as a slave cutting cane sun up to sun down, or picking cotton and still you think of yourself as a scholar, as a religious leader, as a student, and you write," Diouf continued. "When you get paper, you copy the Bible or Quran for yourself. You organize schools to teach your children how to read and write and all that while being enslaved. Doing all this is secret. That is the triumph of the human spirit." Diouf also talked about the traces of Islamic influence on music, cultural traditions and vocabulary in the Americas that remain strong today. In the music form known as the blues "the Islamic way of chanting, the call to prayer ... is all there," Diouf said.