The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA is the oldest Muslim organization in America. The United States branch was established in 1920 when Ahmadi missionary Mufti Muhammad Sadiq arrived in Philadelphia.
Ahmadis practice a message of justice, peace and tolerance, with our motto reading “Love for All, Hatred for None.” In our 70 chapters across the country, we serve our communities with interfaith events, blood drives, food drives and other humanitarian projects.
As Ahmadi Muslims celebrate Black History Month with their fellow Americans, we reflect on the historic contributions made by African Americans to the Muslim community, who had been among its earliest converts and the majority of its members for many decades.
Similarly, we admire the efforts made by early Ahmadi missionaries and activists toward the civil rights movement. They introduced and extensively propagated the message of racial equality, a core Islamic principle, to many African Americans.
Nayyar Ahmed
Monroeville
