Islam and the Freedom of Conscience

by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad

Page 101 of 140

Islam and the Freedom of Conscience — Page 101

~ 101 ~ The people who built this mosque in South-West London say it is the largest in Western Europe and that Muslims in a hundred nations would have heard the words spoken inside, calling on them to do no more than speak out against insults to their religion, like the cartoon and the film. But their leader the Caliph admitted to me that there are many more Muslims prepare to do much worse. He says: “It is not anti-Western sentiment, more a case of others inciting violence to increase their own following. Of course, as the Head of a minority Muslim sect his words may not move many of them, nor quell the violence in places like Peshawar. ”