Wednesday, May 23, 2012

10/26/10, Letter to Editor, The London Independent



Moderate Islam Under Threat
By: Faheem Younus Qureshi

Being an Ahmadi Muslim from America, I was deeply disturbed to read your report "Hardliners call for deaths of Surrey Muslims" (21 October). This is too much change since my last visit to London in April.

Over the past six months, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has launched a bus campaign with our slogan "Love for all, hatred for none" in London. The same bus campaign then took to the streets of New York, Wisconsin and Houston in the USA. Our youth went door-knocking with "Muslims for Peace" leaflets. In the USA, we have reached out to over 25 million people with this message of peace through outreach efforts.

And during the same time "hardliners" have called for deaths and boycotts in the name of God, and reinforced the same misguided image of militant Islam which the moderate Muslims such as Ahmadis despise. These potential terrorists must be removed from the streets of the UK before things change even more adversely for the moderate voices within Islam.

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