بريطانيا: المسلمون يشاركون في ذكرى الحرب العالمية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

صرح "جولي صديقي" - المدير التنفيذي للجمعية الإسلامية البريطانية - أن حوالي مليون مسلم بريطاني يستعدون للمشاركة في فعاليات ذكرى الحرب العالمية وضحاياها، في خطوة تبرهن على وطنيتهم ومشاركتهم للمجتمع الذي يعيشون فيه.

ويشارك المسلمون في هذه الفعاليات من خلال ارتداء الورود الحمراء التي ترمز لدماء ضحايا الحرب، وذلك في ظل وجود بعض الآراء التي ترفض ارتداء هذه الورود أو المشاركة في الفعاليات، إلا أن بعض استطلاعات الرأي أشارت إلى أن غالبية المسلمين يضعونها تضامنًا وبيانًا لكونهم جزءًا من التاريخ البريطاني؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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About one million British Muslims will wear a poppy on Monday, 11 November, to mark Remembrance Day, in a clear sign that Muslims feel deeply connected to the British History and in protest against anti-poppy preacher Anjem Choudary.

“The centenary of World War I provides an opportunity to tell young Muslims that we are all in this together,” Julie Siddiqi, executive director of the Islamic Society of Britain, told OnIslam.net.

Each year on November 11th, the British people and the Commonwealth people stand still for two minutes; in recognition of all those who sacrificed their lives during WWI.

ust as Christians and Jews fell on the battle fields, Muslims too paid with their blood for the freedom Great Britain enjoys and cherishes today.

The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields".

These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

Although they acknowledge many Muslims are uncomfortable about military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, several major mosques have set up poppy stalls this week.

Commenting on Muslims and Remembrance Day, Siddiqi rejected comments given last week when Choudary said all Islamic leaders who encourage Muslims to wear or sell poppies would “burn in hell-fire”.

“British Muslims should be wearing poppies, not burning them,” Siddiqi

Figures from the latest Ethnic Minority British Election Survey (EMBES) report, in an Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) study published by the Oxford University Press, showed that an overwhelming majority of British Muslims wear the poppy; over 53% of Pakistanis and 46% of Bangladeshis.

This means that an estimated 800,000 Muslims in the UK - two-third of Britain’s 2.7 million Muslims - will proudly wear the poppy, a clear sign the British Muslims feel connected to British History on a very deep level.

Sunder Katwala, the director of British Future, said the survey findings showed Choudray's views were regarded as nonsense by ordinary Muslims.

“Anjem Choudary claims that no real Muslim could ever wear a poppy. He accuses those who do of being 'apostates, lackeys and bootlickers. But these findings clearly show his claim is nonsense,” he said.