Ahmadiyya Muslim women visit U.S. Congress to discuss youth radicalization

//Ahmadiyya Muslim women visit U.S. Congress to discuss youth radicalization

Ahmadiyya Muslim women visit U.S. Congress to discuss youth radicalization

On the fourteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a delegation of 61 American Muslim women, donning the Islamic veil (hijab), visited the Capitol Hill to meet several members of the Congress. The delegates represented the Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA (Lajna Imaillah) led by the National President, Saliha Malik. This was the first time that the auxiliary had the opportunity to spend time at the Hill. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, established in 1920, is among the first American-Muslim organizations.

ahmadyya_muslim_women_us_congressIt was founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the long-awaited Messiah and Mahdi. When the Community was established in March, 1889, Ahmad had only forty followers, in the relatively unknown and isolated town of Qadian in the province of Punjab, India. At present, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community spans more than 200 countries with worldwide membership in tens of millions. It operates under a spiritual leader, a khalifa (caliph), who unites the International Community under his leadership. The Women’s Auxiliary, Lajna Imaillah, was established in 1922 by the second Khalifa, Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad in India. The primary task of this auxiliary is to impart religious education, moral training of the young and adults, disseminating the true message of Islam, and serving the less fortunate of the society.

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