Perspective: Muslims have long, loyal history in US | Syed Sajid Ahmad

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Ahmadi Muslims arrange to collect blood all over the country. Thousands of pints of blood are collected to save lives. Campaign starts with collection of blood on the Capitol Hill where representatives participate in the campaign and give blood.

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By Syed Sajid Ahmad | February 5, 2015

Ahmadiyya Muslims Community was established in the United States in early 1920s. Its first missionary, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, in the early ’20s, traveled to St Paul and Crookston in Minnesota, Stanley and Ross in North Dakota and Sioux Falls in South Dakota to spread the message of peace and harmony through lectures and meetings with local people. He coined the term Rainbow Coalition and started Rainbow Club to promote racial and ethnic harmony. Since then, Ahmadi Muslims have promoted loyalty to one’s country.

Since the rise of radicalization, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has started Muslims of Loyalty campaigns during July 4 celebrations to instill in the society the principle of loyalty to one’s country. After 9/11, it started Muslims for Life campaigns working with Red Cross and similar organizations. On 9/11 every year, Ahmadi Muslims arrange to collect blood all over the country. Thousands of pints of blood are collected to save lives. Campaign starts with collection of blood on the Capitol Hill where representatives participate in the campaign and give blood.

A question often asked is what moderate Muslims are doing to stop mindless violence in the name of religion. Muslims for loyalty and Muslims for Life are two of a number of other campaigns the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community carries out every year to eradicate the notion that violence in the name of religion can in any way be sanctified.


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