Canada: Muslim sect takes message of peace door-to-door in Guelph

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Spokesperson Shafiq Khan said the timing of the event was important, with Muslim suspects connected to the Boston Marathon bombing and an alleged plot in this country targeting a Via Rail train.

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Source/Credit: Guelph Mercury
By Scott Tracey | May 6, 2013

By Scott Tracey, Mercury staff, www.guelphmercury.com, Updated:  6:16 AM

Members of a local Muslim sect took to city streets Sunday to spread their message of peace.

GUELPH — Members of a local Muslim sect took to city streets Sunday to spread their message of peace.

Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community from Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph participated in a community outreach effort, going door-to-door in an effort to educate people about the true meaning of Islam.

Spokesperson Shafiq Khan said the timing of the event was important, with Muslim suspects connected to the Boston Marathon bombing and an alleged plot in this country targeting a Via Rail train.

“How Islam has been represented by extremists and fundamentalists, Islam has nothing to do with that,” Khan said. “Those people in Boston have done wrong, from all religious and ethical laws.

“It’s against Islam, it’s against Judaism, it’s against Christianity,” he said. “It’s against all faiths.”

Nabeel Rana agrees.

“It is a completely wrong interpretation of the Qur’an what these extremists are doing,” said the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s communications secretary. “We completely oppose them.”

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a revival movement within Islam, which believes the messiah came in the person of the movement’s founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who was born in India in 1835.

Followers have faced persecution from other Muslim sects.

“True Islam is represented by us,” Khan said. “Our motto is, ‘Love for all, hatred for none.’”

Talal Raja of Kitchener participated in the outreach event to promote the message of peace “and to remove the misconceptions about Islam. A lot of people just think Muslims are terrorists.”

His sister agreed.

“Most people don’t know Islam, and they only know what they hear in the media,” Madiha Nasir said. “Whenever there is a bombing or something they assume it is a Muslim, but we’re not all like that.”

stracey@guelphmercury.com

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