Source: veooz.com

Summary | Just a day before the U.S. launched airstrikes against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), the women’s auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community concluded their annual three-day retreat (East Coast Ijtema) at the Baitur Rahman mosque, their National Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.

It is also the only worldwide Muslim organization which has had an established caliphate for the last century.

With the current crisis in Iraq and Syria and the claim of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the self proclaimed caliph of the ISIS, it is befitting that the theme of this year’s event was titled, “Meeting the Messiah”.