Local residents have said they believe the community would discriminate against non-Muslims. The Ahmadi group says the homes will be open to all.
Source/Credit: The Baltimore Sun
By Alison Knezevich | October 7, 2017
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community fanned out across the Joppa area Saturday, hoping to educate residents about their beliefs amid a dispute over a townhouse development they want to build.
Wearing T-shirts that said “True Islam” and carrying pamphlets describing the tenets of their faith, volunteers with the religious sect said they wanted to ease concerns about their plans for the Harford County townhouse community known as Old Trails or River Run.
“The message we’re trying to get out is the same one we’ve been trying to convey for decades, and that is love for all, hatred for none,” said Abdul Latif Bennett. “We’re really trying to introduce ourselves to the community, to let them know that we’re not ISIS, that we’re a peaceful, law-abiding community.”
The townhouses under construction on Trails Way have been the subject of a series of public meetings in Harford County. Local residents have said they believe the community would discriminate against non-Muslims. The Ahmadi group says the homes will be open to all.
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The elders of our community who were to be sold these homes are also feeling duped. We were promised a Muslim-only development of some 55 or so townhouses on a first-come-first-serve basis. At least 47 names had been pulled already through a lottery system and people did put-up deposits. The rest are still being pitched as "last chance" through the community's local chapters.
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