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Members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Australia joined forces with other community groups on Clean Up Australia Day. Photo courtesy Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth.

The community group Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Australia has launched a campaign to get young Muslims involved in charitable events across Australia.

The campaign, Muslims for Good of Mankind, was designed to de-radicalise and reform young Muslim in accordance with the group’s motto, “Nations cannot be reformed without the reformation of youth.”

Waqas Ahmed, National President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Australia, says the campaign was started in response to the media’s coverage of such Islamic extremist rebel groups as ISIS and Boko Haram.

“We believe doing programs such as this allows us to display the true teaching of Islam and the holy Qur’an and the prophet Mohammad,” Mr Ahmed says. “The main reason for all these extremist groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram, is basically the incorrect interpretation of the holy Qur’an.”

The campaign was launched on March 1 to coincide with Clean Up Australia Day. Ian Kiernan, founder and organiser of Clean up Australia Day, noted that the five largest volunteer groups participating in the day were from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Australia.

“The Muslim people make great Australians by and large. They have always supported Clean Up Australia,” he said. “With the first Clean Up Sydney Harbour, they came down from their mosque, and I said, ‘Why did you come all the way to Sydney Harbour?’ and they said, ‘We want to say thank you to our new country’.”

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