The Croydon Citizen » Adeel Shah

An opportunity to reach across Croydon’s faith divide

Adeel Shah — Fri, 05 May 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The current state of the world demands that we integrate with our neighbours, understand their beliefs and way of life and accept them, so that better, stronger and more lasting bonds can be created between all groups in our society. It is for this reason that Croydon’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community organises an interfaith forum each year. Croydon is a diverse, multi-faith community and we seek to build on ... Read More »

How Croydon’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community responded to the terrorist attack in Westminster

Adeel Shah — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:43:25 +0000

On Wednesday 29th March, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) took part in a large remembrance gathering on Westminster Bridge in central London. One week earlier, the bridge had been the location for a horrifying atrocity later identified as the work of an extremist claiming to be a Muslim, Khalid Masood, aged fifty-two, from Kent. Four people died in the attack and more than fifty were injured.

How Muslims for Humanity kicked off 2017 by cleaning Croydon’s streets

Adeel Shah — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 08:00:23 +0000

It’s important to keep Britain’s streets clean after the new-year festivities. So youth from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) Croydon, celebrated New Year by waking at the crack of dawn, offering communal prayers for a prosperous 2017, then after the morning prayer, taking to the streets, brooms and bin bags in hand. as part of its ‘Big Street Clean’.

The campaign is one of many charitable and ... Read More »

Croydon’s Ahmadiyya Muslims celebrate Eid

Adeel Shah — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:00:30 +0000

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Chapter of Croydon in New Addington and Shirley hosted an Eid festival get-together dinner party at the Civic Centre in New Addington.

Over 100 guests attended this programme as well as the Deputy Mayor, councillor Toni Letts. Local MP Gavin Barwell was also in attendance, as well as councillors, clergy members from the Christian and Sikh Community, Chief Darren Joy, staff of the local ... Read More »

The young Muslims who cleaned up Croydon

Adeel Shah — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:00:12 +0000

Before dawn on Friday 1st January, more than sixty young Muslim volunteers descended on the streets of Croydon to clean up following the New Year’s Eve festivities.

Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA), were ready to work their way across the borough in order to support the local environment. Litter picking and sweeping has always been a regular occurrence of the Ahmadi Muslim youths, and ... Read More »