Muslim youths will be out in force today – collecting money for the British Legion

At last! The moderate Muslim speaks! Let’s hope that there isn’t more to this story that will appear in 2 weeks time in the Daily Mail. Personally, I would want to pay by cheque payable to the Royal British Legion directly, and then wait to see the cheque clear before I was content the money went to the right place. A tad cynical perhaps? But if this is as it appears, then fantastic. These guys deserve our support.

From The Telegraph

 

The Ahmadiyya poppy appealThe Ahmadiyya poppy appeal

Here’s some cheering news that will warm the iciest of hearts.

Young Muslims are planning to turn up at London’s rail and underground stations in force – to collect money for the Poppy Appeal.

Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association will again be helping The Royal British Legion as a mark of good citizenship and a testament to the Islamic edict of demonstrating loyalty to your country.

They will also pay tribute to the valuable role Britain played in the fight against fascism – and the continuing need to be ever vigilant to the threat of extremism. The carnage caused by bloody extremists on the underground on 7/7 will give greater resonance to the charity campaign.

More than 100 volunteers from the group will be stationed at over 40 Zone 1 train and tube stations in the city of London on Saturday 29th October and Monday 31st October. They will be hoping to raise more than the £20,000 they collected last year.

This is part of a nationwide campaign by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to contribute to the country in different ways. This has included blood drives where Ahmadi Muslims give blood; charity walks; peace conferences and interfaith meetings.

The Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said:

“Muslims are obliged to be loyal to the country in which they live. Honouring those who fought to defend and safeguard one’s country is an important principle of Islam and in fact is an important principle of peace – especially when it is carried out with a sincere heart and for the sake of winning God’s pleasure.”

Fahim Anwer, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association which has over 6,000 members in the UK, said:
“We are again delighted and proud to support the Poppy Appeal which provides financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces, and their dependents.

“As Muslims living in the country it is our duty to honour those who risk life and limb for the protection of all British citizens.”

I imagine they’ll probably receive somewhat less publicity than the small group burning poppies on Remembrance Day, but that’s the asymmetrical nature of news for you. “Muslim gives sweets to neighbours”, as the Ahmadiyya are fond of doing, is slightly less newsworthy than “Muslims make blood-curdling screams about holy war”.

The Ahmadiyya are an interesting case; a pacifistic strain of Islam who are persecuted across the Muslim world, and even in Britain. They are regular victims of threats of violence, and the level of intimidation seems to rise following violence in Pakistan. I recently walked past the Ahmadiyya mosque in Putney and it was pretty heavily guarded.

This is not the first time they have raised money for the poppy appeal, and not the first time they’ve made great efforts to reach out to the British population as a whole (you may have seen their adverts on the side of buses).

It’s just a shame that none of the major groups representing “mainstream” British Islam follow the same path. Instead every anti-terrorist measure is seen as an attack on Islam, and every question about integration proof of “Islamophobia”, that totally bogus neologism promoted by taxpayer-funded anti-racist bodies; furthermore, all hostility to immigration must be the result of “the Right-wing media”, as if British people would be otherwise ecstastic about vast social changes that have taken place without their consent.

I often wonder if the people working for the major British Muslim groups know how badly much of this goes down with the public at large, and how much is it increasing anti-immigrant feeling – which is a shame, because much of this would disappear if prominent members of those communities showed a bit more love, respect and gratitude to the country they live in. However, since the race-relations industry provides financial incentives towards grievances, it’s against their interests to do so, and so few sensible people come through.

So good on the Ahmadiyya for doing far more to bridge community relations than all the government initiatives, quangos, conferences and campaigns in the land, and for helping many former servicemen who made this a safe place to worship whichever god we chose. Love for all, hatred for none, as they say.

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13 Replies to “Muslim youths will be out in force today – collecting money for the British Legion”

  1. It’s nice to see this, but unfortunately the Ahmadiyya are not ‘real’ Muslims. They are a sect of Islam seen as being heretics by ‘real’ Muslims (ie Jihadist psychopaths) and as this article states, are often persecuted by ‘real’ Muslims.
    It’s sad to say but the Ahmadiyya are the ones who have misunderstood Islam and misinterpreted the Koran. The ‘real’ Muslims know this, but unfortunately the Ahmadiyya and the Western Dhimmis don’t!

  2. said, “Ahmadiyya are not ‘real’ Muslims.”

    Thank you for pointing that out.

    Personally I think they are the only ‘real’ people that call themselves Muslims.

  3. “It’s sad to say but the Ahmadiyya are the ones who have misunderstood Islam and misinterpreted the Koran.”

    Mirza Ghulam Ahmad understood Islam very well and called himself the Mahdi there by he was able to over ride everything that was written before. If he succeeded Islam would truly be a peaceful religion

  4. Ahmadiyyas may not be viewed as real Muslims by Sunnis, or for that matter shias, but that does not mean that they do not believe in the koran or mohammed. If Ahmadiyas ever hold power, they will institute sharia dhimmitude for the Infidel just as vigorously as the sunnis.

    For the moment though, like the Kurds, their survival rests on us Infidels, so they play nice.

  5. I don’t know enough about this sect to comment on them, but I would want a strict accounting for all money donated.

  6. Aren’t these heretics to be killed on sight by true believers? Not even too little too late. It is Muslim “nobodies” with no standing in Islam. Nice eye wash for the uninformed though isn’t it?

  7. Anyway, whether they are moslems or not, real moslems or not, they have no right to ask for donation for another organisation, other than for their own.

  8. DP111:
    said, “If Ahmadiyas ever hold power, they will institute sharia dhimmitude for the Infidel just as vigorously as the sunnis. ”

    That is incorrect
    Sunnis and Shiites ‘believe in’ Jesus and Judaism but are not allowed to read a word from the bible.

    The bottom line is what comes last is all that matters in the religion. That means for the Ahmadiyas they don’t even have to read the Quran only the words of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad matter and he was a peaceful person.

  9. “Sunnis and Shiites ‘believe in’ Jesus and Judaism”

    Ummm you mean Issa and other muslim profits..

    Ahmadis and baha’i both are trojan horses for islam.. I have no pity for them and wish them all the worst

  10. This sect may be even more dangerous – because they convince ‘us’ that Muslims really are a peaceful, helpful people.

    Which they may be – but why cant they be peaceful and helpful in their own countries. Demographics are against us my friends, when our culture is gone – it is gone – but what has gone is the ability / desire for our own people (our sons and daughters) to shape our own future.

  11. “This sect may be even more dangerous – because they convince ‘us’ that Muslims really are a peaceful, helpful people.”

    For those that have no understanding of Islam and learns about Ahmadis it is most confusing. It would give the impression there are other interpretations of the Quran which there isn’t.

    They are not ‘more dangerous’ that is for sure but they do confuse what the Islamic cult is.

    I would say, they are NOT part of Qurananic beliefs of Islam because they don’t base their beliefs off the Quran. Saying it this way is not a lie and you are agreeing with the main stream of Islam which helps explain things better.

    But it is sad, because if Ahmad succeeded Islam would have moved into our century.