Mosque

On 2017 Mar 25, Sat two of us from Croydon Meeting attended the
Fourteenth National Peace Symposium run by the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. It attracts some prestigious attenders including parliamentarians,
diplomats and mayors. Its purpose is to put over the message that the vast majority of Muslims are
peace-loving people. But this is wasted on Quakers and indeed most of those present because they
know that already. The speeches came over as platitudinous but the food was good and it was a chance
to see round the
Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden,
one of the largest mosques in western Europe. (One of the minarets is the
re-purposed chimney of the
Express Dairy bottling plant which previously occupied the site,)

Not the style of music I go for. For example I prefer to hear
At the River sung by
Burl Ives or
Willie Nelson rather than as
arranged by
Aaron Copeland. But it raised money
for Roko Academy in central Kenya.