Source: Frankfurter Neue Presse via Zafarullah Khan

(English translation with the help of google translator without taking any responsibility of mistakes. Any one can improve it).

Men donate blood in Eschbacher Bait us Sabuh Mosque , many of them for the first time.  The Islamic community, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, wishes to depict  a new character and present their religion in a different way. Prior to donation  body weight and size of the donation will dokumented. Shahzad Ahmad’s left arm is tense, to bring out the veins stronger. Otherwise, take the 28-year-old Frankfurter the procedure in the gymnasium of the Bait-us Sabuh mosque in Nieder-Eschbach stride. Shazad donated blood today, not for the first time. “In my company, this is done regularly,” he says. A devout Muslim, he wants to set an example for the value of life and prove that his religion is a peace-loving. Because bigots and hate-mongers have here in the Genfer Street in Nieder-Eschbach no chance.In the USA, Islam haters provoke Mohammed Videos, Islamic fundamentalists respond with violence – the members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat want to show, however, that their religion meet charity and integration demands.
Nervous but brave.
Fraz (22) supported the blood drive as well, even if he has just read that blood donation can cause lasting damage. He is little anxious, as he does it for the first time. His friends Kameran (19) and Hamayun (22) are nervous. But on Saturday afternoon when dozens of other community members  donate blood, do not want to release the three – in fact, the risk is extremely low.Input from the gym are apples, bananas and other foods. None of the donor should donate blood with an empty stomach. Prior to the donation, all participants must provide information on their weight and size, and let their blood hemoglobin test to determine donor suitability. Then comes the first of many encounters with the needle. Nearly 70 men aged between 18 and 45 years are the ones who have until late afternoon each donated a pint of blood. Running of blood donation by the German Red Cross (DRK). In Hesse alone daily 1000 canning required.Martina Kramer-Neul, the donor Promotional Representatives from the DRC in Niederrad was, therefore was happy when she was contacted by the community and they told her about the idea for a great fundraiser. The gym of the mosque seemed to be a perfect venue.

Originally proposed was the fundraiser by Hadhrat Khalifa-tul-Massih V(aba), the current caliph and head of the community.
In the U.S. alone donated 10,000 parishioners blood. On September 2, 2012 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community organized the first German fundraiser in a Hamburg mosque. Then followed Frankfurt.It will not be the last action of the kind that I Wahaj Sajid, spokesman for the Frankfurt youth organization of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community announcing. “As early as 2013, we want to call again. All, even non-Muslims donate,” said Sajid.

Reform Movement

Inspiration for these Muslims is the Koran Sura 5:33. “If any one saved a life, so be it, as if he had saved the life of all mankind”. The municipality would therefore will be helped with the large quantity of blood of all the people – no matter what their origin, and religion. “We are an Islamic reform movement. We try against the encrustation in Islam tackle. We are for the separation of state and religion. The” jihad, “holy war, is for us the struggle against one’s own ego. Provocation and allegations as by Mohammed the video will be “ignored by us or refuted arguments, I explained Wahaj Sajid. Many friends to make the Ahmadis not use this setting with other Islamic communities. In Pakistan, where many community members come Ahmadis reprisals were exposed, many members were being murdered every year. Other Muslim faith groups called it the un-Islamic movement.

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany counts with about 30 000 members of the largest Muslim communities. The oldest German mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf was built in 1928 by Ahmadis, the Noor Mosque in Babenhäuser road in Sachsenhausen – the third oldest in Germany – part of the municipality.

On 3 October, the Ahmadis want to again participate in the Open Mosque Day. Actually, they need to tell that  “Our mosque is open to all people at all times,” says Bin Sajid.

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