Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association starts poppy appeal

BBC News London: Catrin Nye and Sarah Levene.

A group of Muslims have started their own poppy appeal at a London mosque that acted as a bomb shelter during World War II.

Working alongside the Royal British Legion, the London-based Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has sold poppies in the capital before, but this year its campaign is being rolled out nationwide.

Members are posting more than 100 volunteers at Tube stations and rail stations across the UK to try to surpass the £20,000 they raised in their 2011 appeal.

It is a marked contrast to the coverage of Islamic extremists burning poppies on Armistice Day in 2010.

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