A Muslim community in Hartlepool says the country needs to unite in the wake of the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hartlepool says they believe a collective response is needed from families, faith communities, the Government and the media as the country seeks to tackle the issue of…
A 32-year-old Leukaemia patient is undertaking a marathon challenge from his hospital room to try to raise £50,000 for charity. Kamal Aftab from Huddersfield is aiming to do the marathon during his treatment at St James’s hospital in Leeds. Kamal, who works as an optometrist and has a passion for volunteering, was diagnosed with…
Peterborough joined the Queen, Prime Minister David Cameron, and the rest of the country in paying its respects to the people murdered in Tunisia. A minute’s silence was held at noon today (Friday, July 3) in Cathedral Square with dozens of people turning out despite the short notice. The attack on a Tunisian beach a…
Thousands in Huddersfield took part in a moving tribute to the victims of the Tunisia massacre. And they included local Muslims who interrupted their Friday prayers to include the victims of the Isis gunman and then condemned the actions of the killer. A minute’s silence was held across the UK to remember the 38 people – including…
A religious community group in High Wycombe has shown support in the government’s fight against extremism, after a man from south Bucks was killed fighting for al-Shabab. Thomas Evans, from Wooburn Green, is believed to have joined the terror group in 2011 and died last month during a gun battle in Kenya. His family, who…
Rafiq Hayat, national president of the moderate Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, says that moderate Muslims fear and despise Islamic State barbarism just as much as the rest of the British public.Security at the community’s huge mosque in Morden, Surrey, which can house 10,000 worshippers, has been stepped up to airport standards with metal and bomb…
Following the terrorist attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait last week, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has said: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community categorically condemns the terrorist attacks last week and indeed all forms of terrorism and extremism. Such attacks have no place…
Basharat Ahmad, 55, works with other Ahmadiyyas to spread their motto “love for all hatred for none” and believes the attack, which killed Plaistow’s Shahara Islam, was not Islamic. “Islam is a religion of peace, what is happening in the name of Islam is un-Islamic,” he said. “Our Ahmadiyya community has been in the UK…
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