Rina Wolfson didn't know what to expect when she joined 40,000 Muslims at the annual Jalsa Salana meeting. She was impressed - but why were no other journalists there?
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By Rina Wolfson | August 3, 2017
Imagine if 40,000 Muslims gathered together in the south of England to swear a pledge of allegiance to Isis. Every major news outlet in the world would descend on the gathering and report that story. Now imagine what would happen if 40,000 Muslims gathered to pledge allegiance to a creed of peace to all and hatred to none, while they denounced violence and raised the flag of the UK. How many journalists would report that? I can tell you the answer, and it isn’t many. I know this, because as I sat in the Press and Media tent at just such a gathering, I was completely on my own.
The assignment was rather unusual. I was sent to interview a Jewish man about a Christian relic at a Muslim convention. What I experienced was nothing short of extraordinary. The Jalsa Salana convention, now in its 51st year, is a gathering of Ahmadi Muslims. The Ahmadiyya are the largest growing Muslim denomination in the world. Founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who is revered as a Messiah by his followers, the group has expanded to more than 200 countries, and is led today by its Caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad.
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