Sagheer Ahmed, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Stevenage, has called on Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia to do more for the refugees.
Source/Credit: Hertfordshire Mercury
By Hertfordshire Mercury | September 23, 2015
Religious figures from the Christian and Muslim community in Stevenage have spoken out over the refugee crisis unfolding in Syria and Iraq.
Sagheer Ahmed, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Stevenage, has called on Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia to do more for the refugees.
He urged the global community to act so that the "burden" is not borne solely by Europe.
Mr Ahmed said: "The sympathies of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are with all genuine asylum seekers and refugees."
He added: "Taking a global response will be just and fair. No one country or continent should have to bear the entire responsibility or burden."
He also urged measures to be introduced to "make sure refugees are genuine and not extremists or terrorists posing as refugees".
Bishop Angaelos, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK – which is based in Stevenage – welcomed the move to accept 20,000 people into the UK who are fleeing the crisis.
He added: "This is a humanitarian crisis of scale unseen since the Second World War, and it can only be satisfactorily addressed, let alone resolved, through collaboration among and between states, NGOs and religious institutions."
He urged people to take to heart the teaching of Matthew 25, which reads: "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
Bishop Angaelos made the comments after visiting refugee camps in Erbil in Iraq and at Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border.
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