By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel at JSOnline
Milwaukee’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community will host an interfaith gathering at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Oak Creek Community Center, 8580 S. Howell Ave., not far from the site of the deadly massacre last year at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
Representatives from the Sikh, Christian, Muslim and Hindu communities will explore ways to promote peace and tolerance among the faiths.
Ahmadiyya Muslims, the nation’s oldest Islamic community, differ in that they believe that the messiah foretold by the Prophet Muhammad has already come, in the person of Mirza Ghulam, who lived from 1835 to 1908 in India.
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Americas, Islam
One of the largest ‘religions’ these days (in the West) are the ‘atheist and agnostics’. We should invite them also to be truly ‘inter-religious’.