Source & Credit: The Press-Enterprise
Published Friday May 21, 2010
About 130 members of the Women's Interfaith Committee of Southern California, came to the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino for a tour and meeting with Imam Shamshad on Thursday.
Organizers said Imam Shamshad took the guests inside the San Bernardino County-based mosque prayer hall and gave them an introduction to the basic beliefs of Islam, along with an overview of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India.
The Ahmadiyya sect, the Imam said, was started in 1889. The trip to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's Mosque was part of an ongoing religious awareness program by the Women's Interfaith Committee, said organizers.
Each year, the group charters buses and takes their members to a different place of worship representing one of the world's major religions. This time the religion chosen for its members to better understand was Islam.
The visit to the Chino Mosque was coordinated by the president of the women's auxiliary for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's Hawthorne Mosque, Nadia Malik.
In the group's announcement she stated: "In the spirit of interfaith dialogue and friendship, both non-profit communities have been working towards removing common misperceptions and prejudices, and promoting religious tolerance in today's turbulent times."
Representatives of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community state in the announcement that its leaders have publicly condemned terrorism by any Muslims in the wake of the attempted Times Square car bombing.
According to the group, information is available toll-free: 1-800-WHY-ISLAM or go on-line to the Ahmadiyya Community's main website at: www.alislam.org
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