The Ahmadiyya community in the UK is introducing airport-style security at its many mosques and centres across the country after receiving death threats from other Muslim groups.
Source/Credit: DNA India
By DNA India | November 26, 2017
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK (AMC), which represents an estimated 30,000 Ahmadis, launched walk-through metal detectors, identity checks and bag searches to screen visitors and worshippers for knives and firearms recently at the Baitul Futuh mosque in south London.
The minority Islamic sect, which is disowned by some Muslims, has also sought Scotland Yard's intervention over the death threats to its leader Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, The Sunday Times reports.
Farooq Aftab, a spokesperson for the AMC, told the newspaper that while it was common for Ahmadis to be persecuted in countries such as Pakistan, similar violent and divisive behaviour should not be tolerated in Britain.
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