LONDON, UK - BAITUL FUTUH MOSQUE HOSTS LIVE RADIO FOUR SHOW

Baitul Futuh is run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, one of the oldest Muslim communities in Britain.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | UK Desk
Source & Credit: Community Newswire | By Emma Foster
Edited by Ahmadiyya Times Staff  | January 8, 2010

The BBC Radio Four panel program Any Questions? is being broadcast live from the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, Surrey, today.

Any Questions?, chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby, is a topical discussion in which a panel of personalities from the worlds of politics, media and elsewhere are posed questions by the audience.

The panel includes: Polly Toynbee, columnist for The Guardian and president of the Social Policy Association; Sadiq Khan, Minister of State for Transport and Labour MP for Tooting; Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP for North Southwark and Bermondsey; and Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for the South-east region.

Baitul Futuh is run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, one of the oldest Muslim communities in Britain.

Rafiq Hayat, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK, said he believed it was the first time Any Questions? had been hosted in a mosque.

He added: "We are delighted to host Any Questions? and to bring people into our mosque. It is part of our ethos to be open and welcoming and to engage with all communities.

"Our community is based on the belief: 'love for all, hatred for none', and it is important for us to articulate this distinctive message at a time when public opinion towards Islam is at such a low ebb."

Baitul Futuh is the biggest mosque complex in western Europe, capable of holding more than 10,000 worshipers.

Any Questions? goes out live each Friday evening at 8pm and is repeated at 1.10pm on Saturday.

For more information about the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK go to www.ahmadiyya.org.uk.

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