Ahmadiyya Muslims from Barking brought gifts to the elderly in a bid to spread their message of “love for all, hatred for none”. Bringing hampers of fruit, bunches of flowers and tins of biscuits, the Barking branch of the minority Muslim organisation hoped to honour what it believes to be a central principle of Islam…
THERE are few signs of life at the Stockwell Green mosque in south London at the moment. The gates are padlocked and the telephones have been disconnected. And some hope it will stay that way. For the mosque is at the centre of a dispute within Britain’s Muslim community over how it should respond to…
BINSTED Primary School’s Big Build Project has been given a special boost with the quiet support of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community who host the annual Jalsa Salana event at neighbouring East Worldham.The primary school has launched a £113,000 Big Build Project appeal to finance the building of an additional classroom. Providing primary education for four…
Ahmadiyya Muslims, regarded non-Muslims by Pakistan, hope to overcome hatred they face across the world by funding good causes in East London with money donated by Ahmadis across the UK.Speaking at the walk’s launch dinner, which 85 charity representatives and Stephen Timms MP attended, Ahmadiyya Muslim Elders Association president Dr Ijaz Ur Rehman said the…
The largest Muslim youth organisation in Britain, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) held its annual ‘Mercy for Mankind’ Charity Challenge on Saturday 16th April in Hyde Park, London. On the wet, chilly and dreary day, hundreds of members of the organisation as young as 5 gathered from across the UK to take part in…
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 outside his shop on…
A Muslim charity, which is organising a walk for peace across east London, has held a dinner to gather support for their cause. Nearly 200 people and 42 different charities attended the dinner on Friday organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Elders Association, which raises money to support vulnerable people in their communities.The walk for peace,…
Have you ever identified yourself as something, lived and breathed it all your life, and then told you’re not really what you believe yourself to be?I’ve always called myself a Muslim, but recently the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) made a statement about me, saying the beliefs I follow mean I “cannot be eligible for…
A Dundee-based religious group is supporting a public anti-extremism campaign following the death of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah.The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has decorated 25 city buses with banners proclaiming “united against extremism”, which will run for two weeks.Their campaign comes after Mr Shah died in what police have described as a “religiously prejudiced” crime on…
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