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By WISN | Milwaukee News |August 6, 2010
WEST ALLIS, Wis. -- Young members of a Muslim sect delivered a message of peace Friday at the Wisconsin State Fair.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community's message is no more terrorism. But that's a message not everyone here at the fair is buying.
"I didn't really open (the pamphlet). I read it. I knew it was a Muslim issue, and it bothers me a little bit," one fairgoer said.
"Whenever you hand someone something they're going to be thinking, What is this?" said Maanaan Sabir. "There's a brick wall up. We have to make sure when that brick wall is up we both climb to the top together."
That's a message the young men will hear at a convention this weekend in Franklin for more than 1,000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
"Condemning terrorism is not enough. That's just like washing your hands and saying stay away. But when you talk of loyalty then you've taken a step further; you've really vaccinated. And the chances are you will have a safer community," said Faheem Younus.
What the group is doing at the fair is similar to what they're doing across the country and across the world.
"I'm proud to see they're actually out here defending their religion. I don't hold a religion. I don't judge anyone based on religion," another fair patron said.
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