Ahmadiyya Muslims Launch Fundraising For Poppy Appeal

[Kromovaracun]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/29/young-muslims-poppy-selling-rembrance-_n_2038318.html

"Lots of Muslims actually served in World War I and World War II and lots have ancestors who served in the army. We therefore hope that our participation is a clear indication of our desire for peace and unity between all nations, peoples and religions.""

The Caliph and Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said in a statement:

"Muslims are obliged to be loyal to the country in which they live. Honouring those who fought to defend and safeguard one’s country is an important principle of Islam and in fact is an important principle of peace – especially when it is carried out with a sincere heart and for the sake of winning God’s pleasure.""

[Gromit]

Retrocop,

The mosque does not broadcast the call to prayer. I think they have an app to alert worshippers.

[naomi24]

Gromit, that doesn't explain why you say they're 'a bit sinister'.

[Gromit]

Naomi,
I have walked past and hundreds of them are crammed in chanting to tapes that are in Arabic. They looked robotic and stern and pretty alien. When I was a kid, the Greek Orthodox priests, all in black used to scare me.

The Ahmadiyya's are ultra traditional, probably more bonkers than a regular muslim.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"The Ahmadiyya's are ultra traditional, probably more bonkers than a regular muslim.".
The Ahmadis (1% of UK Muslims) reject violent jihad and do not seek to impose Sharia on the rest of us. They're modernists. That is why they demonstrate against Islamic terror and wear poppies unlike the traditionalist mainstream - Sunnis (88%?) and Shia (10%).
If Ahmadis were the majority Muslim group the UK would be a safer place than it is and Kromo's post would never have been written.