By Michael Dresser Ahmadi Muslims from around the United States and Canada welcomed the spiritual leader of their faith to their Baltimore County mosque Saturday — an occasion as inspirational to them as a papal visit to Catholics. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth Khalifa of Islam, came Continue Reading
Ahmadi Muslims Risk Arrest to Perform Hajj Pilgrimage
The Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that all adult Muslims are expected to complete at least once in their lives. Ahmadi Muslims are not recognised by other Muslims because of their beliefs and Saudi Arabia bans them from entry. They risk arrest and deportation if they travel to Continue Reading
Fighting intolerance, Ahmadi Muslims have won unlikely allies
By Aysha Khan ALTON, United Kingdom (RNS) — Johnnie Moore, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers, stood before the Ahmadi caliph and tens of thousands of his Muslim followers on Saturday (Aug. 4) and celebrated the phrase “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is the greatest.” “I grieve at Continue Reading
The incredibly gracious way Muslims welcomed a man who had drunkenly shot their mosque
By Colby Itkowitz Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. It was only several months earlier, on the night of the terror attacks in Paris, Continue Reading