Through the campaign, Icelanders are invited into the home of a Muslim family in order to share experiences and knowledge about different aspects of life.
Source/Credit: The Reykjavik Grapevine
By Alice Demurtas | April 27, 2018
“Even if this is a humble beginning, I know we have to carry on trying to push for peace.”
The Ahmadyya Muslim community of Iceland held the 3rd National Peace Symposium in downtown Reykjavík yesterday evening.
The event was mainly intended to be a forum of discussion on peace and leadership. At a moment where rampant Islamophobia and xenophobia continues seeping through the doors of the West, the event was also an opportunity to get to know the local Muslim community and what Islam stands for.
“We claim to be such advanced nations, in every sense, but our actions often prove the contrary,” organiser and Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Iceland Mansoor Ahmad Malik explains. “But what disappoints me is that while everything is at our fingertips, including information, the tension we create between ourselves is often based on a lack of understanding, or rather on the image we develop in our mind of a person or a nation without actually trying to talk and understand them.”
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