Chino, CA - USA: Imam working to educate Americans on Islam

"Islam came not to kill people but to give life to them. This is our message, that we should not act in any manner which is harming to humanity." 

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Sun | San Bernardino
By Josh Dulaney | September 10, 2011

Imam Shamshad Nasir of the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino was in the Washington, D.C., area on Sept.11, 2001.

"The disaster was a great, great tragedy in which each American felt it very badly," he said. Now, Nasir hosts a weekly radio talk show on KCAA 1050 AM in San Bernardino, where he fields questions about Islam and his particular sect.

With members in 200 countries, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community teaches that their founder - the 19th-century Indian-born Muslim cleric Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - is the messiah mentioned in the Quran.


Nasir throughout the year speaks on the need for religious tolerance, but in recent weeks has focused specifically on Sept. 11.

"Islam came not to kill people but to give life to them," he said. "This is our message, that we should not act in any manner which is harming to humanity."

His efforts to educate Americans about Islam have paid off among those who are willing to communicate with Muslims, Nasir said.

"Those people who contact with us, we are able to remove the misunderstanding," he said.

In 2010, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ran an advertising campaign for peace with signs on nearly 200 Omnitrans buses in the Inland area. The banners read "Muslims for Peace, Freedom, Loyalty and Justice for all Love for all - hatred for none."

To honor victims of Sept. 11, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has launched "Muslims for Life," a blood drive with the goal of collecting 10,000


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