In February I accepted an invitation to a “National Peace Symposium” at a mosque in Morden, to be held the following month. Nobody at the time could have suspected that this event, to promote peace, would be held in the shadow of a terrorist attack in Westminster and the funeral of Martin McGuinness.
My hosts were the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who are no strangers to the evils of violence and sectarianism. They belong to a little-known Islamic religious movement that first developed in 19th-century British India but are regarded as heretics by other Muslims.
