Hundreds of Muslims attend anti-terror summer camp

By Julie Jammot (AFP) – 2 days ago

COVENTRY, England — “Follow the Prophet Mohammed, don’t follow bin Laden!” That was the message from an anti-terrorism summer camp led by a top scholar which attracted hundreds of young Muslims this week.

Al-Hidayah (The Guidance) was led by Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who earlier this year issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against terrorism.

His message to the roughly 1,300 people attending the three-day event on a university campus in Coventry, was clear — terrorism is anti-Islamic.

And it was welcomed by members of the British Muslim community, which has been in the spotlight since the July 7, 2005 suicide attacks on London’s public transport system killed 52 innocent people, plus the four young British Muslim extremists who blew themselves up.

“The thing he said about terrorism is a big thing to say,” Anam Nazir, a young woman who attended the event, told AFP.

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