Perspective: How three days in England proved Islam is a religion of peace | Zafir Ahmed


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By Zafir Ahmed | July 28, 2017

Why don't Muslims get together and rally for peace? How can you tell me Muslims are not terrorists when the Islamic State group is the only one I see acting in the name of Islam? Where are the so-called peaceful Muslims? These are questions an average Muslim like me hears every day. When I wonder why some people have these questions about my faith, I wish that they were with me on three blessed August days in 2011.

As a 12-year-old child traveling to England for the first time, I could barely hold back my excitement. London has always been a traveler's fascination, but for me the real thrill lay some 50 miles southwest of the capital, in a small community known as 'Hadeeqatul Mahdi' (previously called Oakland Farm). Though from the outside, this rural area appeared to be nothing like the hustle and bustle of London, a closer look revealed its unique vibrancy. The farmland was to be the setting of the three-day International Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
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