UK: Ahmadi mosques on guard over death threats from Muslims

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A small community regarded as blasphemous by other Muslims has introduced scanners and searches at prayer halls

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: The Sunday Times
By Richard Kerbaj | November 26 2017

The Metropolitan police are investigating threats

A minority Islamic sect has introduced airport-style security at its mosques in Britain to screen worshippers for knives and firearms after receiving death threats from other Muslims around the country.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK (AMC), which represents about 30,000 Ahmadis, has brought in walk-through metal detectors, identity checks and bag searches at its prayer centres after threats were made on the life of its leader, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, and other group members.

The Metropolitan police are understood to be investigating threats from British Muslims against the community. [more ...]



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