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| Your article (Muslim sect hounded in Pakistan warns of UK threat, 8 October) states that I attended a meeting of Khatme Nubuwwat in Luton in July. This is true – but it is incorrect to suggest that I automatically support the views of my hosts at any meeting which I attend. | Your article (Muslim sect hounded in Pakistan warns of UK threat, 8 October) states that I attended a meeting of Khatme Nubuwwat in Luton in July. This is true – but it is incorrect to suggest that I automatically support the views of my hosts at any meeting which I attend. |
| As a Muslim peer I am regularly invited to attend meetings on numerous topics, and try to get to as many as time permits. In this case, a meeting was being held by supporters of Khatme Nubuwwat. However, when I was given the opportunity to speak, I repeated the strong message which I deliver at meetings across the country – that in favour of tolerance and in opposition to sectarianism and hatred both within and between religions. | As a Muslim peer I am regularly invited to attend meetings on numerous topics, and try to get to as many as time permits. In this case, a meeting was being held by supporters of Khatme Nubuwwat. However, when I was given the opportunity to speak, I repeated the strong message which I deliver at meetings across the country – that in favour of tolerance and in opposition to sectarianism and hatred both within and between religions. |
| It has always been my belief that it is for an individual to choose what to believe in. Britain is a multi-faith, multicultural society and there is no room for hatred. This is the message I will continue to deliver at meetings, even when I disagree with others present. Qurban Hussain Liberal Democrat, House of Lords | It has always been my belief that it is for an individual to choose what to believe in. Britain is a multi-faith, multicultural society and there is no room for hatred. This is the message I will continue to deliver at meetings, even when I disagree with others present. Qurban Hussain Liberal Democrat, House of Lords |
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