One Ahmadiyya faith sharer in Queen St wearing a T-shirt that said "Meet a Muslim" told the Herald he was offering to meet those who wanted to "be friends with a real-life Muslim".
Source/Credit: The New Zealand Herald
By Lincoln Tan | July 31, 2013
Mubarak Minhas, of the Ahmadiyya community, with a message of love and understanding. Photo / Natalie Slade
A Muslim sect is taking its faith to the streets of Auckland this Ramadan month to counter "Kiwi ignorance" of Islam.
The Ahmadiyya community, which considers itself Muslim but is rejected by most followers of mainstream Islam, has embarked on a range of public faith-sharing programmes - including offering a hand in friendship to shoppers in the city and having stalls at weekend flea markets.
One Ahmadiyya faith sharer in Queen St wearing a T-shirt that said "Meet a Muslim" told the Herald he was offering to meet those who wanted to "be friends with a real-life Muslim".
"There isn't enough mixing between Muslims and non-Muslims, and maybe that's because of a lack of opportunities," he said.
Spokesman Bashir Khan said the community was distributing peace messages door to door and organising public meetings to "educate the public that Islam is a religion of peace" and remove the idea that it is a religion of violence.
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I think you may be mistaken about so called "Kiwi Ignorance" about Islam. Islam has proven that it has not tolerance for any religion other than Islam and will even kill Muslims if they do not adhere to Sharia law especially if one lives in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteJust because you have set up shop in the South Pacific doesn't make your form of Islam any different to that being forced on people by decree of death in the Middle East. Islam is a false religion whose beginnings can be seen quite clearly in the Torah or Moshe and it's end will be as spoken of in both the Torah. Prophets and Brit Chadashah erroneously called the New Testament by christianity, another man made religion.