LONDON, July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ —

A celebration of contribution to British life

• 100 years of countering extremism by promoting peace and serving as loyal citizens
• Built Britain’s biggest mosque and London’s first purpose-built mosque
• Massive programme of charity fund raising, interfaith events, blood donations, homeless feeding, environmental protection, and nationwide door-to-door messages of peace

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – whose ethos is Love for All Hatred for None – marks a historic milestone tomorrow 25^thJuly 2013, its centenary in Britain.

At more than 100 of its centres set up throughout Britain, thousands will gather at the crack of the dawn to offer special prayers, followed in the evening by a collective breaking of the Ramadan fast at the sunset. It would be a day full of thanksgiving- but also a day for renewing a long-standing commitment to Britain and its prosperity.

Ahmadi Muslims have condemned violent Jihad ever since the community was founded in India in 1889 by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and it stands firmly against firebrand clerics and those who incite hatred and violence.

Their 100 years of contributions in the UK includes hosting thousands of interfaith and peace events throughout the UK, reaching out across the UK by promoting messages of peace on hundreds of buses around the country, raising millions of pounds for charities including tens of thousands of pounds for the annual Poppy Appeal, organised blood donation drives, planting tens of thousands of trees to protect the environment, initiating a feed the homeless programme that will reach 20,000 people during the centenary and a nationwide programme of spreading the peaceful message of Islam through a door-to-door leaflet campaign that has already reached four million homes.

Earlier this year the community hosted  National Peace Symposium that was attended by 900 delegates including Cabinet Ministers and Ambassadors and in June an historical centenary celebratory event was hosted in the House of Commons by Secretary of State Rt Hon Ed Davey MP together with the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community where more than 40 parliamentarians including a large number of Cabinet Ministers including the Deputy Prime Minister and the Home Secretary were present and where the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community delivered the keynote address.

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