MEMBERS OF Glasgow’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community are ‘readjusting’ to life following the death of shopkeeper Asad Shah. Almost one month after the shopkeeper’s death, Ahmadi leaders said community members were “healing over time” and added that police reassurances had helped them feel safe. Abdul Abid, President of the Ahmadiyya community in Scotland, made the comments…
A multi-faith campaign against religious hatred has been launched after the death of the Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah. The “love for all, hatred for none” campaign is being backed by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community that Mr Shah belonged to, as well as Christian, Jewish and Sikh groups. Mr Shah, 40, died after an attack…
Muslims launch bus posters campaign against extremism Community rocked by stabbing death sends out message of unity STRONGER TOGETHER: Roy Henderson, Fariha Thomas, Paul Morron, Charandeep Singh and Ahmed Owusu-Konedu at the launch of the campaign. A MUSLIM community has launched a campaign that will see posters displayed on the side of buses in three…
Ahmadi Muslims in Scotland have launched an anti-extremism campaign following the death of the Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah, despite the failure of other prominent Muslims to attend the event. Representatives of the Glasgow Central Mosque and the Muslim Council of Scotland were invited to attend the launch alongside other faith groups, but…
MEMBERS of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Glasgow are running a campaign promoting unity after the death of city shopkeeper Asad Shah. As part of this, a total of 50 buses across the city are carrying messages condemning extremism. READ MORE: Asad Shah memorial on hold until campaigners meet family of slain shopkeeper Mr Shah,…
Scotland’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community has launched a campaign promoting “peace, love and unity” following the death of Glasgow shop keeper Asad Shah. The message “united against extremism” will be carried on posters on 50 buses. Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya, a group known for its peaceful interfaith concerns. He died after an attack…
A UK Muslim charity is continuing its multi-strand campaign to counter extremist rhetoric following last month’s atrocities in Paris with bus ads it says will “literally drive the message home”. Led by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK, a charity whose UK roots go back more than a century, the United Against Extremism…
One of Britain’s oldest Muslim communities, founded over a century ago as the peaceful renaissance of Islam, is launching a new campaign to counter extremist rhetoric and literally drive home a message of peace. It follows the Paris atrocity and adds to a multilevel strategy by anti-extremist Muslims to counter the rhetoric and ideology of…
A GROUP of British Muslims released pictures yesterday of a new bus campaign that would drive forward the message of peace in the wake of last month’s Paris terrorist attacks. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is to cover 100 London buses with the French flag’s colours and posters proclaiming unity against extremism. Its British-based…
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