Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Seeks to Expand in Latin America

The vice-president of the Community in the United States, Daud A. Hanif, specified that the religious group was able to enter Guatemala in 1989, when they founded their first mosque, while this year they inaugurated another in Quetzaltenango, the country’s second most important city, 206 km west of the capital.

AMC- VP and Imam, Daud Hanif leads prayers in New York.

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The Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community announced in the Guatemalan capital that it is seeking to expand in Latin America by sending missionaries to Colombia and Chile and with the possible construction of a mosque in El Salvador.

“The objective is to start over in those countries and reestablish Islamic missions,” after failures in South America in 1992 and in Central America in 1988, the Community’s spokesperson in the United States, Waseem Sayed, said at a press conference while visiting Guatemala.

Sayed explained that he headed a 1988 delegation to establish missions in the countries of Central America, except for Nicaragua, “but it wasn’t possible.”


Nevertheless, he said that there are members of the Community in El Salvador, for which reason they are studying the possibility of buying a piece of land and building a mosque in 2011.

The vice-president of the Community in the United States, Daud A. Hanif, specified that the religious group was able to enter Guatemala in 1989, when they founded their first mosque, while this year they inaugurated another in Quetzaltenango, the country’s second most important city, 206 km west of the capital.

The religious leader also dismissed the possibility that true Muslims could be behind terrorist attacks, like those that took place in the United States on 11 September 2001.

According to the leader, the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is made up of around 200 million people in 197 countries and is recognized by the international community and the United Nations as peaceful.


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