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Hazrat Ameer
launching jalsa.

Chaudhry Riaz,
stage secretary

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From HOPE : Religious Head of

the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at-i
Islam, Trinidad and Tobago, Haji
Jaleelul Rahaman, passed away
on Sunday 7 December 2014.
Our condolences go out to the
family of our departed brother.

Pakistan
100 Years on
As usual the annual prayer
meeting of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Anjumans Ishaat Islam
was organised by our Centre at
Lahore. These prayer meetings
are organised not for selfaggrandisement or some political
purpose. They are solely devoted
to prayer and supplication and
improving the knowledge of the
participants so that they are better equipped to defend the religion of Islam, which was the
original purpose of these gatherings.
Over the days speeches of
high quality were delivered by the

Aleem ud Din

Nur Jehan, President Australia

Tahir Sadiq

Next Meeting
Speakers: Yahya Saqib and Faizaan
Ahmad
Date: Sunday, 4th January, 2015
Time: 15:00

January

2015
Issue 29

Wahid Umar Deen

Trinidad

Ahmed Faraz

Broadcasts
www.virtualmosque.co.uk
Friday service: 12:30
Dars: 13:15
Monthly meetings: first
Sunday of each month

Venue: Dar-us-Salaam, 15 Stanley

Avenue, Wembley, HA0 4JQ

participants. The speakers included from

the very young to old.
The proceedings started with the Fajr
prayers after which an enlightening exposition of the Holy Quran was delivered.
After the dars members dispersed for
breakfast. The main proceeding started at
09:00 with recitation of the Holy Quran
and recitation of the religious poetry by
the Promised Messiah. Arrangements had
been made for simultaneous translation
into English of the Urdu speeches for the
benefit of our overseas members.
Members from the US (Ohio and

Skype
Weekly Urdu lecture/dars
Skype: Lahori-Ahmadi
Day: Sunday
Time: 09:00 am (BST)

California), Trinidad, the UK, Australia and Indonesia attended the

proceedings and took part in them.
A new and notable feature was
the direct delivery of speeches by
overseas members such as Mr
Mudassar Aziz from Berlin. Although the speaker misses the atmosphere of the meetings it is a
great morale boaster for our own
members present at Dar us Salaam
(Lahore).
Hazrat Ameers appeal for donations led to contributions of almost 10 million Pakistani Rupees.
May Allah bless all those who donated so generously and reward

Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore (UK)

15 Stanley Avenue, Wembley, UK, HA0 4JQ
aaiiLahore@gmail.com

Ayaz
Aziz

Major(R)
Iqbal Ahmad

Mohi ud Din

Mian Umer
Farooq

Naveed

is denying the Holocaust took

place. This is true of most EU
countries. Even EU has a law which
says this.

their sacrifice.
Sad Killings in France
President of the UK branch sent
the following response to a website
in the US when it was felt that
Muslims were being needlessly
apologetic over the killings. It was
a crime by some terrorists and we
are saddened by the loss of life and
sympathise with those left behind
but Islam does not teach Muslims
to behave in this manner. Rather
rush into denouncing Islam and
Muslims people need to sit down
and look at why some Muslims
behave in this manner. These are
not people who have gone to
madrassas in Pakistan but mostly
born in the West and educated
here. Muslims too need to look at
what they are being taught in the
name of Islam and check to see
whether this represents the true
teachings or there is some political
agenda underlying.
Dear Mike assalamu alaikum
We've all got carried away by this
perceived attack on 'freedom of
expression'. But let us look at facts
and ask: So where is the freedom of
expression?:France has banned hijab and anyone
wearing hijab cannot get a job with
the French government.
France has a criminal offence which
Hazrat Ameer at the House of
Commons.

Hafiz Anas Hameed

Switzerland has banned the building of anything that looks like a

mosque.
Charlie Hedbo's editor, who is now
a martyr, sacked one of his columnists for writing this sentence:
Our young lad, he will go far
because it was felt this was insulting to the Jews. All the columnist
was doing was poking funs at President Sarkozi's son who had become
engaged to a Jewess-heiress to a
large fortune. When the columnist
refused to apologise he was sacked.
For years Ive tried in the US to get
air-time, space etc. for advertisements saying Israel is a terrorist
state but I've been unsuccessful.
My son offered the New York
Times $100,000 to run an advertisement for a week with this heading and quoting facts but was refused.
It appears to me that the so called
freedom of expression is there only
to insult Islam, Muslims and the
Holy Prophet Muhammad (s).
Has France ever apologised for the
murder of tens of thousands of
Muslims in Algeria or the Buddhists
in Vietnam?
Oh and am I going to be allowed to
print a cartoon poking fun at the
Holocaust? if not,

A section of the crowd at the

prayer meeting.

Young girls of the jamaat

presenting a report on their
activities. They produced an
edited version of Kishti-i-Nuh
by the Promised Messiah.

Dr Noman Ilahi
Malik

Sahibzada
Haroon

Qari Arshad Mehmood

why not?
Let us stand with our heads held
high - we have nothing to apologise
for. It is the Western Governments
who need to apologise for giving
money to get votes to organisations
which support terrorism, for selling arms and armaments to countries that suppress freedom and for
making Muslims feel like second
class citizens.
Shahid Aziz
President
Worldwide Ahmadiyya Associations for Propagation of Islam (UK
branch)
From: "Moazam mf897s@aol.com
[WorldMuslimCongress]"
Well said!
'fazlur rehman faridi' frfaridi@rediffmail.com
[WorldMuslimCongress]
Salam
Well said Shahid, indeed. And trust
me you are not alone and Muslims
and unbiased journalists, columnists, statesmen are getting tired of
too! No, we should not parrot
what west and its hypocrite leaders
parrot. Nor should we apologize.
Next time someone asks Muslims
to condemn, let us turn the tables
on those bigots and ask them to
apologize for their own skeletons.
And the apology should be public.
Regards
Khalid
Faizan Ahmad addressing
UK jamaat meeting.

Yahya Saqib addressing

UK jamaat meeting.