When Sohail Raza of Toronto sits down to a family dinner, he doesn't just worry whether there are helpings enough for all. He also worries that the meal might offend his god.

Raza is a Muslim. His faith demands that all meat he consumes be halal : blessed and hand-slaughtered by a Muslim, and untainted by any contact with pork. Until recently, it has been difficult to find halal meat in Canada – and even now, Muslims can't always be sure that what they're buying is genuinely halal.

On its next edition, the VisionTV current affairs series 360 Vision finds out how Canadian Muslims deal with this challenge to their efforts to live – and eat – according to their faith. The program airs on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 10 p.m. ET, and repeats on Monday, Feb. 6 at 10 p.m. ET.

With almost one million Muslims now living in Canada, the market for halal meat is booming. However, there is no universally recognized body to establish and enforce standards for all producers and distributors. In effect, anyone can slap a label on a product and call it halal.

In 2004, Imam Omar Subedar and his colleagues at the Canadian Council for Muslim Theologians launched an extensive investigation into the halal meat industry. To their dismay, they found that the majority of operations they inspected were not meeting the halal requirements. “I would say that 90% of the meat we are consuming does not comply with the rules of halal ,” the Imam tells 360 Vision 's Donna Young.

The Council has recently established a non-profit Halal Monitoring Authority, modeled on a similar body in the UK, in the hope of cleaning up Canada's halal meat business. But for now, Muslims like Sohail Raza must live with the knowledge that the food on their plates may not be what it seems.

“It troubles me, because somebody else is misusing my faith,” Raza says.

Also on the Feb. 2 edition of 360 Vision :

Azeem Kayum was born with a rare condition called Ondine's Curse: when he falls asleep he cannot breathe on his own. He needs a respirator to stay alive.

Laila Kayum, a devout Muslim Canadian from Markham, ON, gave birth to Azeem in December 1979. He suffered three heart attacks in his first seven months, and doctors told her he probably wouldn't last more than a year. Azeem proved them wrong. They told her he had suffered severe brain and spinal damage, and might never walk or talk. Azeem proved them wrong – again and again.

Today, Azeem Kayum is 26 years old: the world's oldest known survivor of Ondine's Curse. He made it through public school and college, and was there to stand by his mother through her own battle with breast cancer. Now, after a lifetime of defying predictions, he has accomplished yet another thing that no one ever expected: he has written a book about his life.

360 Vision 's Heidi Westfield tells the remarkable story of Azeem – and of his mother Laila, whose deep faith has been her source of strength through the long struggle for Azeem's survival.