Ahmadiyya Muslims:

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British convention of a religious minority persecuted abroad spreads a message of love and peace



More than 30,000 Ahmadis listened to their caliph preach the ‘true teachings of Islam’

Sunday 31 August 2014
Emily Dugan
Social Affairs Editor

The rise of Isis has raised the threat of terror in the UK and led to a summer of negative headlines about Islam – even pushing leading British imams to call for a fatwa prohibiting Muslims from joining the terror group.

But in a field in Hampshire on Sunday, more than 30,000 Muslims gathered to celebrate a very different face of their religion.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, whose motto is “love for all, hatred for none”, gathered in a specially created tented village for the largest Muslim convention in Britain. Their message was simple: peace, not jihad, is the true meaning of Islam.

Sunday was the final day of the Jalsa Salana (annual convention in Urdu). The three day event attracted Muslims from more than 80 countries around the world, who met to reaffirm their commitment to Ahmadi ideals of non-violence, neighbourliness and charity.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ahmadiyya-muslims-british-convention-of-a-religious-minority-persecuted-abroad-spreads-a-message-of-love-and-peace-9702610.html

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1. Nice. Wonder if they are related to the Bahá'í Faith or Sufism? Just curious.

Seat of the Universal House of Justice, governing body of the Bahá'ís, in Haifa, Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith&printable=yes

Sufism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sufism&printable=yes

IDK if these groups are for the rights of the individual in other respects.

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2. Now that you mention it, there are striking similarities to Bahá'í.

But they look to have a different history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_Muslim_Community