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The 'normal guys' from the UK and US who have given up their day jobs to fight Isis in Syria

Rare photos shows Western fighters working alongside Kurdish forces HEATHER SAUL Wednesday 22 April 2015 A team of foreign fighters hailing from Europe, Canada and the US who made the perilous journey to Syria have been photographed alongside Kurdish fighters battling against Isis. Uygar Onder Simsek, a documentary photographer, spent […]

UK: Ahmadiyya's Annual Peace Symposium calls for a united stand against extremism

Source: halesowennews.co.uk | by Sarah Cousin A MUSLIM organisation used its annual peace symposium in Halesowen to call for a united front against extremism. Around 250 people of different faiths gathered at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association’s Long Lane mosque on Sunday. Civic dignitaries, politicians, faith leaders, charity workers and neighbours were among those […]

UK: Ahmadiyya’s Annual Peace Symposium calls for a united stand against extremism

Source: halesowennews.co.uk | by Sarah Cousin A MUSLIM organisation used its annual peace symposium in Halesowen to call for a united front against extremism. Around 250 people of different faiths gathered at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association’s Long Lane mosque on Sunday. Civic dignitaries, politicians, faith leaders, charity workers and neighbours were among those […]

Glasgow Muslim group and Amnesty International hold election hustings – Ukip declined to attend

CANDIDATES fighting for votes in the General Election have affirmed their commitment to human rights in a hustings. In an event organised by Amnesty International, seven parties attended in the Mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Glasgow in the west end. Speakers included the Scottish Conservatives’ Meghan Gallacher (candidate for […]

Syrian-born former imam shot dead in London

Syrian-born former imam shot dead in London Murder investigation launched after Abdul Hadi Arwani, a fierce critic of Bashar al-Assad, found dead in Wembley Abdul Hadi Arwani was found dead in his car in Wembley, north-west London, on Tuesday. Photograph: YouTube Rebecca Ratcliffe and Aisha Gani Tuesday 7 April 2015 […]

Croydon goes to the London Peace Symposium, Baitul Futuh Mosque, 14th March 2015

Rosie Edser accompanies Croydon’s Ahmadiyya Muslims to the 12th London Peace Symposium   Asking whether Ahmadiyya Muslims are Sunni or Shia is like asking whether Jehovah’s Witnesses are Catholic or Protestant. They’re neither, they’re entirely different. There are approximately seventy-three different sects of Islam There are approximately seventy-three different sects […]