President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat congratulates Andrew Brons!
ANDREW Brons has received a letter of congratulation on his election to the European Parliament from the President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Sheffield, Mr Mohsin Abbas Rizwi.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community seeks to rejuvenate Islamic moral and spiritual values, advocating peace, tolerance, love and understanding among followers of different faiths. It strongly rejects violence and terrorism in any form and for any reason.Ahmadis first arrived in the ‘Steel City’ in the 1960’s and an official Ahmadi community was established in 1985.According to Mr Rizwi the local society has developed excellent relations with the community at large and the new Bait‐u‐Afiyyat mosque, which was opened last year, was built on the site of a public house called ‘The North Pole’.
Andrew wrote in his letter of reply:
Thank you very much for your letter of 1st July and your congratulations.
If you or your fellow members would like to bring any concerns to my
attention, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thank you again for your kind wishes.
http://www.iengage.org.uk/component/content/article/1-news/440-which-muslim-group-congratulated-bnp-mep-andrew-brons-on-his-victory
http://digg.com/politics/Muslim_Group_Ahmadis_congratulate_Andrew_Brons_BNP_MEP
What are we to make of this?
It is a delightful irony that the election of a BNP MEP candidate should be the cause of such a remarkable example of inter-racial co-operation.
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/1946
1 comment:
We should always build bridges...eventually we will learn that all humans are the same underneath.
However the tone of the Engage article is curious. They seem to be suggesting that it’s ok to alienate a group if they differ from “established” religious view which, if you replace religion with race, sounds so much like BNP. Why don’t the ‘real’ Muslims try to build some real bridges for a change and to “engage” for real with others who differ instead to only find faults with others?
Prophet is known to act generously with even his opponents. If we take this example then it’s the Ahmadiyya who are being ‘real’ Muslims and not Engage or MCB or Banglawala et ell. Perhaps this is what is getting to them?
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/1946
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