Sunday, November 2, 2014

UK: Ahmadi Muslim group supports Poppy Appeal


To acknowledge the partnership, the Royal British Legion has marked the 1st of November 2014 as “The Ahmadiyya Muslim Poppy Appeal Day”

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Source/Credit: ITV News / AT / BBC
By ITV News/ AT Staff | November 2, 2014

More than 20 young Muslims from Spen Valley and Huddersfield joined local members of the Royal British Legion to collect at the Huddersfield Town Football Club.

They see it as a mark of good citizenship and demonstration of loyalty to one’s country.

To acknowledge the partnership, the Royal British Legion has marked the 1st of November 2014 as “The Ahmadiyya Muslim Poppy Appeal Day”
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Ahmadiyya Times: In other news, Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of UK condemned the attack on a 15-year-old Army cadet raising money for Poppy Appeal.

The victim was selling poppies for Remembrance Day when suffered burns to his face in an attack with a lit aerosol can while he was wearing his uniform, was at a bus stop near Manchester Art Gallery on Saturday.

"This is a despicable act," wrote the associations in their Twitter post citing the incident from a BBC report. "We hope the cadet fully recovers and the guilty is dealt with the full force of the law."





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