Ahmadi Muslims mourn 150 children in Peshawar murdered by Taliban Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack on Peshawar Government schools. Reports indicate at least 150 children have been killed and scores more injured.
TORONTO ─ In the wake of the recent killings of two soldiers on Canadian soil by homegrown jihadists, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada is launching a campaign to fight youth radicalization. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada launched the Stop The CrISIS initiative on Wednesday at the Tahir Hall in Vaughan, Ontario just north of Toronto.The campaign includes events in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Brampton, Mississauga, Calgary, Saskatoon and Vancouver, among other communities. Events taking place in each community features a keynote address, …
On 8 November 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Caliph, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 11th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. During his address, His Holiness categorically condemned the activities of ISIS and other extremists groups as “entirely un-Islamic” and said they were “viciously spreading a network of terror” in the world. The event was held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque, the largest mosque …
The Christian founder of school feeding charity, Mary’s Meals, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, is pictured above at the weekend, accepting the award of the 2014 Prize for the Advancement of Peace by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK at its 11th National Peace Symposium. He received the award at Europe’s largest mosque, the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden in Surrey – and was presented with it by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Caliph, His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, who leads the global community that …
A Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry crowd after being accused of desecrating a Koran, police say. Shahzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama Bibi, a married couple with four children, were beaten and then burnt alive in a brick kiln where they worked yesterday (4 November) after they were accused of desecrating the Quran by a co-worker. According to the Pakistan Christian Post, mosque loudspeakers in Kot Rada Kishan, Kasur district of Punjab, …
A senior Islamic cleric & Imam of THE STATE HOUSE MOSQUE of Gambia Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty who called for the expulsion of Ahmadis and a complete ban on Ahmadiyya teaching in the country has been fired from his job as Imam of the State House. Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty, in an interview to the private Standard Newspaper in Banjul called for the expulsion of Ahmadis from Gambia and said “Ahmadiyya’s are not Muslims,” The Saudi Arabia educated cleric confirmed to a local newspaper that …
OVER the next few weeks, hundreds of young Muslims belonging to the largest and oldest standing Islamic Caliphate will be taking to the high streets, rail and tube stations, stadiums and airports around the UK, raising thousands of pounds for the Poppy Appeal. For the 5th year running, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) will be in partnership with the Royal British Legion. They see it as a mark of good citizenship and a testament to the Islamic …
The largest mosque in Western Europe will host politics, faith and civic leaders at a peace symposium next month. More than 800 guests are expected to descend on Morden’s Baitul Futuh Mosque for the National Peace Symposium, which aims to promote a deeper understanding of Islam. International development secretary Justine Greening and energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey are expected to be among guest speakers on the night.
Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which turns 30 this year, has become only more deadly with age. Since blasphemy was made a capital crime under the nation’s secular penal code, the effect has been to suppress moderate influences, pushing “Pakistani society further out on the slippery slope of extremism,” said Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, in Washington last week. With its large population and sensitive location, Pakistan is a place where any societal shift in the direction of …
n, On October 17, over 130 people, including dozens of professors and students, attended a special academic discussion held in Princeton about religious extremism in Pakistan. The event, moderated by Princeton Professor of Economics Dr. Atif Mian, included two distinguished panelists: Pakistani journalist and commentator Raza Rumi and Pakistani jurist and scholar Mujeeb-ur-Rahman. Rumi, who survived an assassination attempt earlier this year for his outspoken views against religious extremism, discussed the tragic plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities and the state-facilitated …
A PROMINENT Muslim cleric of Trinidad and Tobago has branded the Islamic State (ISIS), as a “terror organisation” which poses a physical threat to the survival of the human race and must be exterminated from the surface of the globe. Addressing the third day of the Jalsa Salana, organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at its centre, Polo Grounds, Preysal yesterday, Maulana Ibrahim Bin Yaqub, also identified the Ebola virus as another catastrophe which is creating havoc in the world.
SASKATOON – Muslims across Canada are condemning the attacks on Parliament Hill this week, including the ones in Saskatchewan. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community held a solidarity rally in front of Saskatoon’s city hall to show support for the fallen soldiers and stand in solidarity with Canadians to condemn the attacks in Canada and abroad. Rally-goers held signs saying ‘love for all, hatred for none’ and ‘we support our troops’, among other messages.